SoniVox

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 use record functionality for real time sampling
• Over 250 factory preset instruments and pad layouts
• 16 user assignable pads
• Tempo Sync Stereo Delay, EQ, and Chorus Effects
• Assignable filter section with 10 filter types
• Graphic waveform display with zoom, click, and drag functionality
• Midi Learn & Save functionality, Sampla is instantly compatible with any
• MIDI keyboard or pad control
• Pad-Specific Variable Resolution Note Repeat and Pattern Arpeggiation Mode
• PC Standalone, VST and RTAS Compatibility.
• MAC Standalone, AU, VST, and RTAS Compatibility.

Sampla is available now with a MSRP of $149 and an introductory street price of $99. Read more…

2009 Winter NAMM Show: SONiVOX announced the release of Playa – a Hip Hop Virtual Instrument for MAC and PC. Playa’s user interface is designed to bridge the gap between MPC style beat creation and computer based virtual instruments.

Features:

• Over 400 SONiVOX Instruments, including fat synths, basses, drums, leads, orchestral instruments, ethnic instruments, guitars, strings and brass.
• 16 User Programmable and Assignable Pads for quick and easy MPC style beat construction.
• Over 50 Pad Presets designed to get the producer going instantly with various construction kit layouts, diatonic chord mappings, arpeggios, chord progressions and motifs.
• User Definable Layouts - Make original pad mappings and assign pads to midi keys using the “map” and “learn” modes.
• MIDI Functionality - Playa is instantly compatible with any MIDI controller.
• Independent Zone Tempo-Synched Variable Resolution Roll/Retrigger Mode.
• Onboard FX and Graphic Equalizer.
• Keys Mode - For standard keyboard play/performance.
• User Editable Envelope Controls.
• PC Standalone, VST and RTAS Compatibility.
• MAC Standalone, AU, VST, and RTAS Compatibility.

Playa will be available February 1st, 2009 with a MSRP of $149 and a street price of $99.

SONiVOX MI has released Anatomy, a sample library for Kontakt that features exclusively human body sounds.

Anatomy offers over eight-hundred instruments that “twist and transform the human body into one expansive collection of physiological melody and rhythm. Anatomy sonically explores the human condition in ways never dared attempted previously, delivering you a deep, diverse & rich new palette of sonic colors and textures.”

While the marketing copy for this may be a little over the top, the library looks like it’s actually pretty cool.

All instruments included in Anatomy are separated into the following two categories.

• Man: Raw and organic samples straight from the source.
• Machine: Effected and manipulated interpretations.

Both categories feature the following instrument sub-categories:

• Beat Box Kits: Over 50 unique kits with a massive tool box of additional kicks and snares for even more flexibility. Boston beat box guru Steve Foxx stepped up to the mic and laid down an array of sound that the SONiVOX design team edited and programmed into patches.
• Vocal Pads and Leads: Over 100 Vocal pads and leads, from the ethereal tones of Tibetan tuvan throat singing to humming and whistling.
• Body Percussion: Snaps, claps, foot stomps, and heartbeats.
• Vocal FX: Blips, burps, gurgles, growls, groans, and nostril snorts. Laughing, moaning, and simulated emotional breakdowns.
• Choirs: A complement of male and female choirs and choral groups with a variety of articulations and programming variations. Ethereal voices and intimate utterings.

Anatomy is available now for $219 USD.

SONiVOX has introduced Samurai Hip-Hop, a set of DJ and producer audio loops offering thick & juicy beats, and sonic textures for their musical productions.

Thick & juicy beats. Yum!

Description:

Many forces were combined to generate the material compiled for Samurai Hop-Hop, vintage analog instruments, butchered synthesis algorithms, funky noisy tools in the middle of the Swiss Alps, a 300 year old untunable piano, and smokey guitar sessions in London & Milan, all collected and compiled in the finest underground studio of North London by Memory9, the artist who outputs the kind of sound that you’ll hear if you know where to go for a proper after party in the English capital.

Samurai Hip-Hop is slated for an early Q1 2008 release, with a MSRP of $69.95.

All SONiVOX LoopLine titles are Mac and PC compatible and include Acid/Wav, AppleLoop, AIFF and REX2 formats.

SONiVOX has announced the expansion of their DVI (Downloadable Virtual Instrument) line of products, now offering 46 downloadable virtual instruments.

SONiVOX DVI’s are designed for users’ instant gratification and ease of use. Each SONiVOX DVI product is downloadable and instantly playable as a plug-in or as a standalone instrument, allowing musicians added flexibility and convenience in maintaining and expanding their sonic palate.

New DVI offerings include orchestral stings, brass, ethnic tonal & percussion instruments, electronic instruments, guitars, basses, and more, priced from $11.95 to $79.95 USD.

SONiVOX DVI’s are available now directly from SONiVOX’s webshop and are PC, Standalone, VSTi and RTAS compatible, with MAC compatibility following in the fall.