Minimal House is a sophisticated specialists sample collection comprised of productions with condensed tonal intensity for maximum emphasis. This library comes with 900 Loops and Samples, gathered in 24 construction kits and contains over 1.6GB of sample content. Main tasks of this Ueberschall product are live use, DJ sets and behind the scenes sound commandos. Sound awakenings for novice and advanced mix makers.
To make their set of tape plugins more complete Virsyn have added a Tape Flanger plugin simulating the playback of two tape machines running at slightly different speed. In addition to this new plugin they also updated Saturator and Delay to version 1.1.
‘ITCH (ich) noun. a persistent, uncontrollable desire’ – After more than two years in the making, Serato Audio Research today announced a new DJ technology called ITCH. Serato ITCH is an integrated software and hardware solution for digital music selectors and DJs. Serato is working closely with select hardware partners to offer a level of integration, ease of use, and reliability never before seen in the digital DJ realm.
At this year’s NAMM a few details on Version 3 of the VSL Vienna Ensemble emerged carefully. Clearly though is the fact that this new version is in it’s final development stage.
Sonoma Wire Works introduces RiffWorld.com, an online music collaboration community for RiffWorks users. RiffWorks easy-to-use guitar recording software with built-in online collaboration and podcasting has been updated and integrated with RiffWorld.com. During the beta test, over 600 songs were created by 200 collaborators worldwide (US, Canada, UK, EU, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and more) with no latency or distance problems. RiffWorld.com is now out of beta, and 20,000 RiffWorks users are ready to play.
Electronisounds has released a new version of their first VST effect, ‘Ubergate’. It is a multi-fx plugin comprising of a pattern based gate and two effect chains. Each effect chain features delay, filter with LFO, modulation (chorus/flanger/phaser) and 3-band EQ with Drive.
Vir2 Instruments is proud to debut the latest two products in its series of innovative and groundbreaking virtual instruments: Elite Orchestral Percussion and BASiS. Elite Orchestral Percussion offers 19 gigabytes of sterling orchestral percussion with a sophisticated script engine, and BASiS fills the low end with a large collection of electric, upright, fretless, and synth basses with the most features and artificial intelligence ever built into a virtual instrument.
iZotope has announced iZotope RX audio restoration plug-ins, featuring the essential tools for cleaning and restoring audio.
IK Multimedia is pleased to announce that a special edition of IK Multimedia’s SampleTank, with sounds from over $3500 worth of IK’s awardwinning virtual instrument products, such as Miroslav Philharmonik , SampleMoog, Sonik Synth 2, SampleTron, Studiophonik and SampleTank 2.5, will come bundled inside the Yamaha X-Factor DVD, which ships with all Yamaha music production products, including Yamaha’s KX Series MIDI controllers, Motif XS Series Synthesizers, Mo Series Synthesizers, MM6, S-Series Synthesizers, MW, N and 0 Series Mixers and more.
Pro-Convert is a new software application designed to improve workflow and make it easier for producers to use their Digital Audio Workstation of choice. Pro-Convert is audio project translation software that facilitates the exchange of entire projects between audio applications. The application is designed to make it much easier and quicker to move projects between producers or facilities where different audio applications are in daily use. Pro-convert is designed to remove the creative and technical constraints presented by an ‘industry standard’ DAW environment.
Digidesign today announced significant updates for two of the most popular virtual instruments created by the company’s acclaimed Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group. Hybrid, the high-definition synthesizer, and Strike, the award-winning virtual drummer plug-in, have each received important new features and dramatic content expansions for 2008.
For over a year now (almost), Snapper is being expected throughout the Mac (audio) community. Audio Ease have put up a web page explaining the features of this audio application. Furthermore they let us know that Snapper is being released this coming wednesday, january 23. Snapper will be available for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher at a price of Euro 59 ($79).
Sonalksis today announces The Sonalksis Mastering Suite. The Sonalksis Mastering Suite consists of a select range of plug-ins for Mastering Engineers, Producers and other Industry Professionals.
The ASX is a DSP board which goes into the expansion slot of UF and VX series keyboards and provides a flexible synthesis engine, turning the CME MIDI controller keyboard into a stand-alone synthesizer.
MOTU announced the upcoming release of Digital Performer 6, which promises to be a major upgrade to the company’s flagship digital audio sequencer. DP 6 features a redesigned user interface, which includes the ability to zoom in the Track window.