Eitan Shefer, an industrial designer fresh out of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, has published an interesting video of his graduation project. The project is for a music controller called the Samchillian, described as a musical instrument based on relativity. The instrument uses the concept of keys representing relative notes, rather then fixed… Read More New Music Controller Based on Relativity
Precisionsound has released Carina Accordion for HALion/Kontakt/EXS24/Gigastudio & SoundFont. Carina Accordion is a Multisampled Swedish Hagström Accordion with 7 registers and a separate noise program. All registers has been sampled with belly in/out for all notes and with release samples. The library contains in total 666 24bit WAV files and 9 different programs. One program… Read More Precisionsound Releases Carina Accordion Sound Library
Digidesign has announced that the Hybrid high-definition synthesizer plug-in is now shipping. Hybrid is a high-definition software synthesizer for Pro Tools systems that combines the warmth of classic analog waveforms with digital wavetables to produce everything from traditional synth sounds to modern digital textures. Hybrid comes equipped with 256 preset patches that include a full… Read More Digidesign Ships Hybrid Synthesizer Plug-in
Digidesign is shipping the Digidesign Music Production Toolkit software expansion option. With the Music Production Toolkit, users can take advantage of an impressive collection of plug-ins and enhanced editing tools, increased track count, and the ability to easily export mixes as MP3 files. The Music Production Toolkit includes a full range of professional music tools… Read More Digidesign Ships the New Music Production Toolkit Option for Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered Systems
Zero-G has announced a new download service, allowing customers to obtain Zero-G samples by direct download to their hard disk. Three types of product are available – individual sample search (search, audition & download from a huge database of samples), SamplePacks (genre-specific groups of samples chosen to work together), and full Downloadable CDs (the entire… Read More Zero-G Announce New Download Service
ModernBeats.com has just released the new ‘Urban Anthemz 1’ melodic loop library for all major MAC and PC music software. ‘Urban Anthemz’ contains 400 loops of urban melodies, riffs, and hooks where styles range widely from hardcore ganksta hip hop all the way to unheard of modern groundbreaking themes, both mainstream and underground. The ‘Urban… Read More ModernBeats Releases Urban Anthemz 1 Loop Library
CEntrance has announced availability of a beta version of its Universal Driver, Windows audio software that lets users combine FireWire audio interfaces from various manufacturers into one, feature-rich audio system. Formerly incompatible audio devices can now record and play together in one studio setup. The CEntrance Universal ASIO Driver’s unique technology features multi-host and multi-device… Read More CEntrance Releases Beta Version of Universal Driver
Discovery Sound has released a new sample library, Indonesia – The Magic. The library features exotic Indonesian sounds and samples, produced and supervised by Asian music master Makoto Kubota. The Republic of Indonesia is located in the Malay Archipelago, the world’s largest archipelago, between Indochina and Australia, and between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The… Read More New Sample Library Features Sounds of Indonesia
A collection of classic drum machine, beatbox, and acoustic drum samples for use with the Electribe ES-1 is available for download via Walgran.com. The samples have been converted to 32k 16bit mono wave files compatible with the ES-1. To use them, rename them to “##.wav” (where ## is a 2 digit number from 00 to… Read More Free Samples for Korg Electribe ES-1 Samplers
SmartNamer, an Windows application now beta, is a free sample manager for the Korg Electribe ES-1. The Korg Electribe ES-1 is a sampler/step-sequencer with build in effects. The ES-1 uses SmartMedia for saving and loading memory and loading samples. The ES-1 only recognises samples which are named 00.wav to 99.wav. SmartNamer handles renaming and organizing… Read More Free Electribe ES1 Editor
