October, 2007 archive

Garritan has released new versions of their Personal Orchestra and Jazz & Big Band libraries.
Garritan Personal Orchestra and Garritan Jazz & Big Band now ship with the new Kontakt Player 2 from Native Instruments. These new versions are also now Apple Intel-Mac/Universal Binary compatible. They continue to run as a stand-alone as well as VST, [...]

Samplebase.com has released a new sample player, Satellite Pro.  Satellite Pro loads REX, Wave, and Acid files and includes features such as auto-mapping, a sample editor, batch processing, a patch editor with three ADSTR envelopes, an effects module, and more.
Details are available at the SampleBase site. 

Sounds And Effects has announced that the two DVD multisample set Pure Acoustic guitars, released last month for Kontakt, is now available for Steinberg’s HALion, Apple’s Logic/ EXS24, and as a Reason Refill.
You can preview Pure Acoustic below.
The library consists of a Martin HD-28 and Taylor 410 with each note sampled from ppp to f [...]

 

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Cakewalk has announced the launch of new academic versions of SONAR 7 Producer and SONAR 7 Studio Editions.
Included with the new Academic Editions is SONAR Music Projects, a set of materials aimed at secondary school Music classes up to GCSE. The 10 projects introduce some of SONAR’s features and help students develop a range of [...]

Westgate Studios has released its first Multi-Format library, The Timpani Module. This library features 24 bit samples for Gigastudio 3.1 and Kontakt 2.1 on the same disc. The library features a comprehensive set of patches for Timpani using soft, medium and hard mallets.
At the heart of this library are the Single Hits patches which include [...]

The Klee Sequencer is a DIY project that can be thought of as a combination of the idea behind (but not the implementation of) the Triadex Muse coupled to a step sequencer.
It can be built in many configurations. The example above is by dr.photon.
Klee Sequencing relies upon the composer’s innate ability to discern patterns of musical [...]

Precisionsound has released the Moldova Concert Cimbalom for HALion & Kontakt.
The concert cimbalom is the biggest instrument in the dulcimer family and commonly used in European gypsy music. The range of the Moldova Concert Cimbalom is: B1 – F#6 – American designation but has been mapped as B0 – F#5 to better support 5 octave [...]

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Digidesign has just introduced the Mbox 2 Micro – a pocket-sized Pro Tools LE system.
The size of a typical USB flash drive, Mbox 2 Micro combines high-quality audio output/monitoring capabilities with the power of Pro Tools LE software. That means that Pro Tools can edit and mix live or studio-recorded sessions created on Pro Tools|HD, [...]

The Delta Music Institute at Delta State University has announced the Electroacoustic Juke Joint, a two-day festival of electronic music and art, to be held November 9 & 10, 2007.
The Electroacoustic Juke Joint will host artists and scholars from around the world. All events will take place at Po’ Monkey’s Lounge in Merigold and at [...]