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Boston based virtual instrument manufacturer SONiVOX has introduced Sampla – Hip Hop Production Sampler, a new virtual sampler plug-in for MAC and PC designed for fast sampling and beat creation for hip hop producers.
Features:

MPC style editing & slicing for easy instrument & beat creation
Imports Wav, Acid, Broadcast Wav, Aiff, & MP3 Format Files
Easy to [...]

 

Pettinhouse has released WarmJazzFREE, a jazz guitar sample library for Kontakt.
Here’s a preview of WarmJazzFree:

 
icon for podpress  Jazz Guitar [1:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Features:

7 Kontakt patches ready to use: 1 patch is dry for amp simulators and 6 patches are amped with the Kontakt effects processor emulating some of the popular guitarist sounds.
129 unique samples.
3 layers.
Round robin played – upstroke/Downstroke.
Release samples for each note.

You [...]

 

Soniccouture has announced that Glass / Works is finally available.
Glass Works is the first SC product to be packaged in Native Instruments’ Kontakt Player, meaning that non-Kontakt owners can enjoy the enhanced scripting and control that Soniccouture instruments have become renowned for.
Glass Works is a sampled collection of 3 instruments which generate sound from glass.

 


Modular Piano – Acoustic piano simulation by subtractive synthesis was uploaded by: zioaxiom
Duration: 84
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Sunday Synth Jam: This is the latest video demo of Christian Bannister’s work in progress, Touch Loop Navigator (name subject to change!) – a multi-touch sound manipulation program.
A few months back, we featured Bannister’s Low Frequency Entity. He’s been busy since then.

 

Free Music Software: The free audio looping application Mobius, available for Mac and PC, has been updated to version 1.4.
Changes in Mobius v1.4

The following features were added:

PACMANS ARE BACK!
Shuffle now supports complex patterns in scripts

The following bugs were fixed:

Threshold recording broken, could never stop recording
loopCount variable always returns zero
script lines ignored if they didn’t end [...]

 

Chris Randall of Audio Damage has announced Tattoo, a percussion synthesizer for Mac & PC:
With the caveat that the UI isn’t 100% finalized, here you go. Have a gander at Tattoo, our first instrument. Some salient points:

No samples. This is a drum synthesizer. Each voice is purpose-built, as well, rather than just having a general [...]

 


Beat Thang Virtual Features was uploaded by: BeatKangz
Duration: 445
Rating:

 

iPhone Music Software: IK Multimedia has released GrooveMaker Techno and GrooveMaker Trance (App Store links) for the iPhone and iPod trouch.
Both are available now and sell for $9.99.

 

Soniccouture has introduced Glass Works, a set of 3 virtual instruments based on the sounds of glass.
The instruments include:

The Cristal Baschet – A bizarre ’sound sculpture’ designed in 1952 by Bernard and François Baschet. It consists of about 4 octaves of chromatically tuned glass rods, which are rubbed with wet ?ngers. The vibration of [...]

 

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