8bit Family II Captures Vintage Videogame Sounds

In 2003, Discovery released 8BIT FAMILY, a sample collection of vintage videogame sounds. Discovery has released a 2nd edition, 8BIT FAMILY 2, ($55) is a CD-ROM with over 530 MB of 16-bit, 44.1 kHz recording in Acidized WAV, REX2, KONTAKT, BATTERY, RNS for REASON 3.0.4 formats. The biggest features are “Construction Kits” taking the convenience… Read More 8bit Family II Captures Vintage Videogame Sounds

iZotope Announce iDrum Expansion and Free Loops for Garageband

iZotope has released Goldbaby Productions’ XRB, a collection of drum grooves and playable kits for use with iZotope’s iDrum and Apple’s GarageBand. XRB includes 256 iDrum Kits with preset grooves for each, for a total of 2,057 individual drum grooves. In addition, each of the grooves are included as Apple Loops, which can be browsed… Read More iZotope Announce iDrum Expansion and Free Loops for Garageband

SoundEngine Vintage Analog and Digital Synths

SoundEngine.com has announced the availability of the follow-up to its SoundEngine Volume #1 sample CDROM in AKAI format: SoundEngine Volume #2: Vintage Analog and Digital Synths. SoundEngine Volume 2 contains over 600 programs containing multi-samples collected from their arsenal of vintage Analog and Digital synthesizers that includes: Peavey DPM series, Peavey Spectrum Bass, Peavey Spectrum… Read More SoundEngine Vintage Analog and Digital Synths

Apple Executives to Preview Mac OS X Leopard August 7th

Apple today announced that CEO Steve Jobs will headline a team of Apple executives, including Philip Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing; Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of Software Engineering; and Scott Forstall, vice president of Platform Experience, to kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote preview of… Read More Apple Executives to Preview Mac OS X Leopard August 7th

VirtuosoWorks Expands Sound Library For Notion Software

VirtuosoWorks, makers of NOTION music composition and performance software, has released five Sound Kits, adding extra sounds and techniques to the standard orchestra that ships with NOTION software. These new samples were recorded in Studio One at Abbey Road Studios using London Symphony Orchestra players and include Expanded Strings, Percussion, Brass, Woodwinds and Harpsichord. The… Read More VirtuosoWorks Expands Sound Library For Notion Software

Bias Ships Universal Peak Pro 5.2 for Intel Macs

BIAS today announced it has begun shipping Peak Pro 5.2, the Universal version of the industry standard Peak Pro audio editing software for Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger” on both Power PC and Intel-based Macs. “We’re excited to be shipping our first Universal release,” said Christine Berkley, vice president and chief MARCOM officer at… Read More Bias Ships Universal Peak Pro 5.2 for Intel Macs

Galbanum Announces Collection of Waveforms for Native Instruments Absynth

Architecture NI Absynth Waveforms is a collection of over 1,000 meticulously designed wavetables provided in Native Instruments Absynth (GLY) format. Wavetables are single cycle periodic waveforms that form the most fundamental building block of synthesis. They are the sound generators, and can be thought of as the oscillator of a classic analog synth, but they… Read More Galbanum Announces Collection of Waveforms for Native Instruments Absynth