Big Fish Audio has released First Call Horns, multi-sampled Jazz, Big Band, Rock and Pop horns. Pop, Latin, jazz, Big Band, Rock n’ Roll horns are all here with unprecedented sound quality and programming. You get lead and second trumpets, (including plunger, cup, bucket and harmon mutes) soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes. Yes, saxes!… Read More Big Fish Delivers First Call Horns
Big Fish Audio has introduced a new collection of drum performances, Brain: One Stroke Done. It features samples in 24bit, multitrack, ProTools sessions. DESCRIPTION: Bryan “Brain” Mantia has toured worldwide and played drums for Primus, Godflesh, BT, and has recently joined up with the current Guns n Roses crew. Just our luck, he’s also put… Read More Big Fish Audio Intros Brain: One Stroke Done
The Sound Guy has announced the release of SFX Machine RT 1.05, an audio multi-effects plug-in for Mac and Windows. Version 1.05 increases the available delay time by a factor of four; it also fixes a bug which could cause incorrect delays at higher sample rates. SFX Machine RT has been used to do sound… Read More Sound Guy Intros SFX Machine
Ableton has announced Live 5. Live. Live 5 presents a wealth of new features and enhancements that cater to the musician’s entire musical process – creation, production and performance. “Version 5 adds our users’ most sought-after features,” says Ableton CEO Gerhard Behles, “along with an abundance of innovative new sound-shaping and organizational tools. Most importantly,… Read More Ableton Announces Live 5
Native Instruments has announced that a User Library for Kontakt 2 is now online. This database allows registered users to freely exchange their own Kontakt 2 creations on the NI website – similiar to what users of Reaktor, Guitar Rig and Absynth have been using for some time. The Kontakt 2 User Library offers extensive… Read More Native Instruments Launches Kontakt 2 User Library
Propellerhead Software has announced the availability of ElectroMechanical 2.0 ReFill, an expansion set of vintage keyboard instruments for exclusive use within Reason 3.0 Music Production Instrument software. ElectroMechanical 2.0 ReFill is a full set of sound patches and files of vintage keyboard classics such as the Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond organ and Hohner… Read More Propellerhead Intros ElectroMechanical 2.0 ReFill
Cycling ’74, a software company based in San Francisco, today announced the release of Momentary Incursions, the fourth volume in the Cycles series of audio source libraries. Produced and edited by sound designer Ron MacLeod, Momentary Incursions consists of hits, events, effects and transitions for use when a more finite punctuation is needed. This collection… Read More Cycling ’74 Releases Momentary Excursions
Native Instruments has announced that a demo version of Kontakt 2 is now available. Kontakt 2 is the second generation of NI´s award-winning flagship sampler. With a powerful new sampling engine, comprehensive surround integration, the unique Kontakt Script Processor (KSP), integrated convolution effects, unrivaled import capabilities, and a massive 15 GB sample library, Kontakt 2… Read More Kontakt Demo Available
ModernBeats has announced a new hip hop brass library for software samplers, entitled “Brass Elementz 1” covering today’s Urban, Hip Hop, and Crunk musical genres. We still are not sure what Crunk is, but whatever it is, they have it on tap. Brass Elementz 1 contains 400 brass stabs, chords, and riffs across 26 multi-format… Read More Modern Beats Serves Up the Crunk Brass
Precisionsound has introduced Cembalo, a big Harpsichord sampled in stereo with 2 velocity layers for both the notes and release notes, 241 samples in total, recorded in 24bit and dithered down with Apogee dithering to 16bit. There are also additional Cembalo FX programs included with 67 stereo files of string clusters, ambient noises and hits.… Read More Precisionsound Releases Cembalo for Gigastudio
