Submersible Music

Musikmesse 2009: Submersible Music has announced it is now shipping DrumCore 3, a drum instrument which combines audio loops and MIDI.

DrumCore 3 sports a new “Sunburst Finish” user interface, over twice as much content and is now a plug-in.

DrumCore gives songwriters and composers access to grooves and instrument sounds of over a dozen famous drummers and percussionists. It includes a library of both audio loops and MIDI grooves plus a software drum instrument for Mac and PC.

DrumCore covers a multitude of styles – including rock, blues, country, metal, prog, alt-rock, pop, jazz, urban, funk, Latin, reggae and others.

In addition to turning DrumCore into a plugin, Submersible Music is including a tool that lets you import your own loops, making this a really transformative upgrade.

If you’ve used DrumCore 3, leave a comment with your thoughts!

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Winter NAMM Show: Submersible Music introduced DrumCore V3. Version 3 sports a new interface, over twice as much content and is now a plug-in.

DrumCore gives songwriters and composers access to grooves and instrument sounds of over a dozen famous drummers and percussionists. It includes a library of both audio loops and MIDI grooves plus a software drum instrument for Mac and PC. DrumCore covers a multitude of styles — including rock, blues, metal, prog, alt-rock, pop, jazz, urban, funk, Latin, reggae and others.

DrumCore v3 will be available for $199 in Q2 of 2009. A v3 upgrade will be available to all DrumCore customers for $50 USD, available via the Submersible Music website and music software resellers worldwide. Read more…

Submersible Music has started shipping version 2.5 of DrumCore drum software. DrumCore 2.5 adds new features to increase DrumCore’s capabilities as a MIDI instrument and make workflow even easier when writing songs with DrumCore.

New DrumCore 2.5 MIDI Features:

• “Pad Swapping” – for easily creating personalized, hybrid drumkits. – DrumCore 2.5 makes it easy for users to create their own customized, hybrid kits. Combine Matt Sorum’s thunderous kick with Zoro’s snappy snare or throw in an electronic drum sound to add some low-end boom. Mix and match sounds by using a simple pop-up menu on each drum pad. Users see a list of all available DrumCore kits and can select any sound assigned to that pad from any of those drumkits. All sample layers plus pitch, pan and volume settings are automatically copied to your new kit.
• Drag-and-Drop Sample Assignment and kit editing – create your own kits by dragging and dropping WAV or AIFF files to the Pad Editor. Now it’s even easier for users to create new drumkits “from scratch” using their own audio samples. 2.5 enables drag and drop of .wav and .aif files into the Pad Editor. Also you can re-order velocity layers on a pad by simply dragging them.
• Real-Time Editing – In 2.5 user edits to the Pad and DrumKit editor happen in real-time, which makes editing and creating drumkits even easier. Users can change the velocity assignments of the sample layers on a pad and get immediate feedback by hearing how they respond to a MIDI controller or sequence. Also there is a new velocity “Audition Strip” which lets users preview velocity assignments using DrumCore without any MIDI controllers or other software.
• MIDI Standalone Mode – play DrumCore live as a drum module – With 2.5, DrumCore now acts as a standalone MIDI drum instrument and responds to input from any MIDI controller and MIDI interface connected to a users’ computer. Now play DrumCore directly from a pad controller and use its great drumkits for playing live.

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Submersible Music has announced the immediate availability of a Universal Binary version of DrumCore, their award-winning drum software. DrumCore version 2.0.1 is available as a free download to all registered DrumCore 2 customers at the Drumcore website in the support downloads area.

There is also a Windows version available on the site that enhances the ReWire multichannel IO features of the DrumCore MIDI instrument.

Submersible Music has announced DrumCore LT, a “lite” version of its DrumCore software. This new product is positioned as a DrummerPack player – giving musicians, producers and songwriters access to DrumCore-quality content at the price of $69 (US MAP).

Users purchase a DrummerPack for $79.99 retail/ $69.99 MAP (US) and download DrumCore LT from www.submersiblemusic.com. Then they can start writing songs with their recording software (Cubase, DP, Logic, Live, Pro Tools, Sonar, etc.) and access all the grooves and MIDI drumkits found in their DrummerPack. Your DrumCore LT library can be expanded by purchasing more DrummerPacks or by upgrading to DrumCore. DrumCore LT only allows use of Submersible DrummerPack content.

Full versions of DrumCore come with more content and allow importing WAV, AIFF, REX2, Acid and MIDI files plus editing and creation of user drumkits. Read more…