PrecisionSound

PrecisionSound has released D-85, a new sample library for EXS24 HALion Kontakt & SoundFont.

The Yamaha Electone D-85 is the source of sounds in the fourth volume of the Vintage Keyboard Collection.

Description:

The D-85 was released in 1980 and designed as an home organ a grandmas organ, for the “loaded” grandmas though, cause the price tag was around $10000. The D-85 is completely analog and uses a technique called PASS (Pulse Analog Synthesis System) developed for the legendary Electone GX-1. The sound of the D-85 is rich warm big and very much analog synth and not typical organ. Read more…

Precisionsound has released Retro Gadgets Vol.4, a sample library featuring a bunch of rare and unique sounding instruments.

The instruments:

• Polivox Faemi mini – A very rare organ/synth produced in USSR.
• Concept 2000 – Some sort of educational keyboard with a plastic edge to the sound.
• Mix Me DJ – The complete DJ/Scratch/synth production studio for children containing a lot of lo-fi 8 bit noises.
• Yamaha PS1 – A great sounding analogue home keyboard from the early -80ties.
• Stylophone Woodstyle – The square version of the cult keyboard from UK with a more snappy sound that the black and white versions.

The complete Retro Gadgets vol.4 contains.

• 453 24bit mono wav files.
• 4 Rx2 files
• 38 programs for HALion 1.1 and above
• 42 programs for NI Kontakt 1.2 and above.

Precisionsound has released Angelic Vocal Pads 4.

Angelic Vocal Pads 4 has been recorded with two female singers in multiple takes and mixed in stereo. The recordings has been treated and seamlessly looped to get an airy lush sound.

The SampleSet contains:

• 417 WAV files (387 MB) divided into;
• 29 programs for the HALion, Kontakt versions (24 bit 44.1 KHZ Stereo)
• 5 programs for the SoundFont version (16 bit 44.1 KHZ Stereo)
• The SoundFont versions are 100% compatible with all virtual samplers supporting the SoundFont format, like Gigastudio, HALion, Kontakt, EXS24, V-Sampler, NN-XT, Dimension, Sfz, Audigy , Emulator X and more.

Angelic Vocal Pads 4 costs $39 (+$11 if you want it on CD).

Precisionsound has introduced a new percussion loop library, Ethno Percussion Collection Volume 1 – DAF.

The DAF is a Middle Eastern frame drum, a percussion instrument with a very distinctive sound. The library is the first release in the Ethno Percussion Collection series, which focuses on making very detailed single shot percussion libraries.

Several layers (up to 8 layers per sample) allow a true and natural response to key playing. The DAF has hands, sticks and mallet programs plus two programs of whooshes and FXs.

Ethno Percussion Collection Vol.1 – DAF contains 689 24bit stereo WAV files. Read more…

Everytime we get a press release from Precisionsound, I’m surprised by the latest instrument that they’ve sampled and made a virtual instrument out of. Instead of another Rhodes or string library, they’re sampling Nigerian Udu and Retro Gadgets.
Their latest sample set features Alpine Concert Zither, a very common instrument in Alpine Europe, but rarely heard nowadays in modern music.

They sampled both the open strings and the fret board strings and a lot of sound effects made by the zither. You get 257 24bit stereo/mono wav files divided into 3 programs and up to 3 velocity layers.

3 programs for HALion/Kontakt. (24bit)
3 programs for SoundFont (16bit)

All formats are included when you buy the SampleSet so you can choose to download both the 24bit Kontakt/HALion programs and the SoundFont (16bit) version if you like now or later on.

The SoundFont version is 100% compatible with EXS24, NN-XT and all other modern SoundFont compatible samplers on both PC and MAC

Alpine Concert Zither costs $39 (+$11 if you want it on CD)