Garritan has released new versions of their Personal Orchestra and Jazz & Big Band libraries. Garritan Personal Orchestra and Garritan Jazz & Big Band now ship with the new Kontakt Player 2 from Native Instruments. These new versions are also now Apple Intel-Mac/Universal Binary compatible. They continue to run as a stand-alone as well as… Read More Garritan Ships New Versions Of Personal Orchestra & Jazz/Big Band
Samplebase.com has released a new sample player, Satellite Pro. Satellite Pro loads REX, Wave, and Acid files and includes features such as auto-mapping, a sample editor, batch processing, a patch editor with three ADSTR envelopes, an effects module, and more. Details are available at the SampleBase site.
Sounds And Effects has announced that the two DVD multisample set Pure Acoustic guitars, released last month for Kontakt, is now available for Steinberg’s HALion, Apple’s Logic/ EXS24, and as a Reason Refill. You can preview Pure Acoustic below. The library consists of a Martin HD-28 and Taylor 410 with each note sampled from ppp… Read More Sounds And Effects Announces Pure Acoustic Guitar Library
Cakewalk has announced the launch of new academic versions of SONAR 7 Producer and SONAR 7 Studio Editions. Included with the new Academic Editions is SONAR Music Projects, a set of materials aimed at secondary school Music classes up to GCSE. The 10 projects introduce some of SONAR’s features and help students develop a range… Read More Cakewalk Launches Sonar Academic Editions
Westgate Studios has released its first Multi-Format library, The Timpani Module. This library features 24 bit samples for Gigastudio 3.1 and Kontakt 2.1 on the same disc. The library features a comprehensive set of patches for Timpani using soft, medium and hard mallets. At the heart of this library are the Single Hits patches which… Read More New Timpani Sample Library
Precisionsound has released the Moldova Concert Cimbalom for HALion & Kontakt. The concert cimbalom is the biggest instrument in the dulcimer family and commonly used in European gypsy music. The range of the Moldova Concert Cimbalom is: B1 – F#6 – American designation but has been mapped as B0 – F#5 to better support 5… Read More Precisionsound Intros Concert Cimbalom
Digidesign has just introduced the Mbox 2 Micro – a pocket-sized Pro Tools LE system. The size of a typical USB flash drive, Mbox 2 Micro combines high-quality audio output/monitoring capabilities with the power of Pro Tools LE software. That means that Pro Tools can edit and mix live or studio-recorded sessions created on Pro… Read More Digidesign Intros Mbox 2 Micro Pro Tools Rig
QuikQuak has released Glass Viper – a synthesizer that offers unique waveform shaping, giving it a deep and natural sense of movement, going beyond analogue simulation into a truly organic sound. Instead of taking a sample or oscillator and applying just filters and FX techniques, Glass Viper bends the actual shape of its waveforms through… Read More QuikQuak Release Glass Viper Virtual Synth
EastWest has introduced three new sample collections; Hardstyle Samples Vol. 2, Blazin’ RnB & HipHop Collection Vol. 2 and Synthation Producer’s Collection (produced by Synthation). Here’s the scoop on these new libraries: Hardstyle Samples Vol. 2 Hardstyle Samples Vol. 2, sequel to the popular Blutonium Hardstyle Sample CD, will add punch to users’ hardstyle, hardtrance,… Read More EastWest Announces Three New Sample Collections
Propellerhead has published several free Reason 4 video tutorials. Here’s a three part introduction to the Reason 4 sequencer: Reason 4 Sequencer Part 1 Reason 4 Sequencer Part 2 Reason 4 Sequencer Part 3
