D16 Group Drummachines updated
Recently all Drum Machines, Drumazon, Nepheton and Nithonat from D16 Group were updated to version 1.4.0.
Recently all Drum Machines, Drumazon, Nepheton and Nithonat from D16 Group were updated to version 1.4.0.
BIAS today announced that PitchCraft EZ — a powerful alternative to the popular pitch correction and special effects tool popularized by many of today’s leading musical artists — is now shipping. As a plug-in for popular audio host applications on Mac and Windows computing platforms, PitchCraft EZ is both easy to use and highly effective. At a price point well below competing solutions, PitchCraft EZ delivers impressive results easily — without compromising sonic quality.
Kong Audio is very happy to bring you the 13th addition to their Chinee Series line of VSTi plugins: ChineeGuqin. GuQin is probably the most “culturally significant” among classical Chinese instruments, for it has been the symbolic vessal of the ancient intellectuals and nobles’ pursuit of harmony since a thousand years ago.
Redline Preamp livens up any “too clean” signal with a customizable combination of even and odd harmonics, saturation, and soft clipping. Redline Preamp is a vintage console channel, a musical grunge machine, and everything in between.
These are the releases we have encountered this week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.
Alien Space Weaver is a very exceptional synth as it is especially made for spacey, deep or dark athmospheric backgrounds, soundscapes and FX sounds. One oscillator contains 75 very special samples i.e. partly fairly long ones being created from images providing very spacey sounds from the start already. Thus play it slowly and let the sounds evolve. This one is a tool too for those who like eerie, weird and really strange sounds to be crafted further via an easy to edit user interface.
Applied Acoustics Systems releases the Synthesis Bundle and the Instrument Bundle for the holiday season. The Synthesis Bundle comprises Tassman 4, Ultra Analog VA-1, and String Studio VS-1 and represents savings of 50% off the separately purchased price.
If you have got an Akai Pro LPD8 and Native instruments’ Reaktor 5, Akai Pro has put together something special just for you. They have compiled some of the best analog drum samples, 120 in all, from their library along with a module for Reaktor that makes triggering them with your LPD8 quick and easy.
Native Instruments today announced a close partnership with Abbey Road, the iconic British recording studios that have shaped the sound of popular music for over 75 years. Combining Native Instruments‘ industry-leading expertise in music software design with Abbey Road’s unique engineering facilities, the two companies will create advanced software instruments of exceptional sonic quality and musical value, with the first product scheduled for release in early 2010.
PreSonus has released a new software driver for its AudioBox USB 2×2 audio interface. The new driver adds 64-bit functionality for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 and can be downloaded (free) from the Technical Support/Downloads section of the PreSonus Web site.
Crysonic announced the release and availability of SINDO V3 Stereo image Expander / Narrower. Comprising of industry first new features and additions such as Stereo Width Compression, Dynamic Stereo width changes together with a great new interface and many other great new features.
Funk features a Pearl Reference Series kit with cymbals from Paiste and Sabian, 400 MIDI grooves and over 30 production presets. The Funk ADpak, focusing on contemporary funk beats and sounds, lays down the groove and lets you produce hot funky music in no time. Funk features a granite sparkle Pearl Reference Series kit with a 22″ bass drum and a thick 14″ snare drum. The four included toms range from a small 10″ tom down to a 16″ floor tom. The cymbal section consists of three crashes from Sabian and Paiste along with a 13″ Paiste heavy hi-hat and a 22″ Sabian Artisan ride.
Xylio just released FutureDecks Pro 2.0, this major release including brand new features is now available. Free upgrades for purchases made after Aug 1st.
Urs Heckmann (U-He) is happy to let you know that he has released ACE (Any Cable Everywhere) in version 1.0. ACE is a small, low cost synthesizer plugin with easy but powerful modular features. ACE is *very* hungry on CPU but has a rewarding sound quality that has rarely been achieved in software before. ACE is furtherly ideally suited as an entry level synthesizer for modular synthesis as it’s pre-wired in a familiar standard 2LFO-2VCO-2VCF-2ENV-2VCA fashion.
Since Apple has released Logic 9 some time ago, we have been playing and working with Logic to get to grips with all the new features and functions within this DAW. Below is what we came up with during our time working with Logic 9!