Category: Computer Music

Heavyocity Evolve, Virtual Instrument For Composers, Sound Designers

Heavyocity‘s Evolve is a new Kontakt 2 virtual instrument offering “diverse percussion, massive stings/transitions, and evocative tonalities. Features: 600+ beat-sliced loops strategically key-mapped into 7 genre-specific suites. 60 sequenced and arpeggiated percussive and tonal instruments. 75+ modern percussion kits and instruments. 45+ sting and transitional instruments. 250+ tonal instruments and FX. 3 custom scripted interfaces.… Read More Heavyocity Evolve, Virtual Instrument For Composers, Sound Designers

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David Byrne’s Playing The Building Opens

David Byrne has announced the opening of his electroacoustic installation Playing the Building. Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation transforms the interior of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” Byrne’s project consists of a retrofitted antique organ placed… Read More David Byrne’s Playing The Building Opens

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Wusik Releases Hybrid World Volume 01

Wusik has released Hybrid World Volume 01, a new sound set based on an Hybrid hardware box. Hybrid World Volume 01 features: 10 multi-sampled sounds sampled every white-key, longer-loops 419MB (296MB compressed) 24 Presets. Hybrid World Volume 01 comes free with any Wusik Membership subscription. Preview Hybrid World Volume 01 below.

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Tenori-On Review

EM’s Geary Yelton has an interesting review of the Tenori-On. Their take: You could easily argue that the Tenori-on is not suitable for professional music production. It has no filters, LFOs, envelope generators, nor any of the user-programmable parameters you’d expect in a real synthesizer. It has only one oscillator per voice, and it provides… Read More Tenori-On Review

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Ueberschall Balkan Lines

Ueberschall has released a new sample library called Balkan Lines. It combines Balkan traditions (Gypsy, Turkish, Serbian, Greek, Romanian, Slavic and other Southeastern European influence) with contemporary and progressive rhythms from Dance, Club, RnB and Marching Band. Yep – Marching Band. Description: Thousands of grooves and phrases are included with some of the most complex… Read More Ueberschall Balkan Lines

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Galbanum Announces Synth Expansion Line

Galbanum has introduced the Piscis Rapture Expansion for Cakewalk Rapture. Galbanum’s Synth Expansion Line products are downloadable collections of professionally designed presets and resources for industry-leading virtual synths. Galbanum’s Piscis Rapture Expansion is the first of this series and focuses on lush ambient pads, evolving atmospheres, and novel textures developed for Cakewalk’s Rapture synthesizer. Abstraction… Read More Galbanum Announces Synth Expansion Line

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