2005 NAMM Show: Steinberg Media Technologies has announced the launch of Groove Agent 2, an update to its successful Groove Agent virtual drummer. Replete with dozens of fresh, up-to-the-minute styles and a battery of quality new drum sounds, Groove Agent 2 offers the latest drum grooves and styles within the comfortable confines of modern DAW… Read More 2005 NAMM Show: Steinberg Groove Agent 2
2005 NAMM Show: Steinberg Media Technologies has announced a new addition to its highly successful “virtual player” range of virtual musicians: Virtual Bassist. “Featuring the talents of the programming team behind Virtual Guitarist and Groove Agent, Virtual Bassist provides all manner of bass guitar phrases, sounds and styles,” comments Helge Vogt, Steinberg’s Product Manager for… Read More Steinberg Introduces Virtual Bassist
NAMM 2005: Ableton announced Operator, a new software synthesizer instrument for Live 4, Ableton’s real-time music production platform. Ableton’s Robert Henke explains, “Our aim was to create a truly unique and inspiring instrument that combined the sonic richness and character of hardware synthesizers with the power of Ableton Live. By integrating Operator with Live, we… Read More NAMM 2005: Ableton Intros Live Operator
NAMM Show: Manifold Labs announced the delivery of V.FoH, software that turns Plugzilla, right, into a digital solution for front of house engineering. V.FoH features an enhanced audio routing system, a real-time frequency analyzer, and a MIDI-learn mode that renders Plugzilla as an integral instrument in the front of house engineer’s cockpit. Plugzilla is a… Read More NAMM 2005: Update Puts Plugzilla at the Front of the House
NAMM 2005: Applied Acoustics Systems today announced the upcoming release of the String Studio synthesizer for Mac OS X and Windows. String Studio is scheduled for release at the end of the first quarter of 2004. The String Studio synthesizer swaps the traditional oscillator, filter, and envelope pattern for real-life string instrument components. At the… Read More NAMM 2005: Applied Acoustics Systems Announces String Studio Synth
2005 NAMM Show: Cycling ’74, a software company based in San Francisco, has announced the release of Pluggo for Windows. This popular package of native audio processing plug-ins will be available on Windows XP for host applications supporting the VST and RTAS formats. Pluggo offers over 100 creative and unusual real-time audio effects and includes… Read More NAMM 2005: Cycling ’74 Releases Pluggo for Windows
Cycling ’74, a San Francisco-based music software company, has announced Hipno 1.0, a new suite of over forty effects and instrument VST plug-ins for VST, Audio Units and RTAS Mac OS X host applications. Designed by ElectroTap, this package features an mix of granular, spectral, and filter/delay-based plug-ins featuring the unique Hipnoscope user interface. Also… Read More Cycling ’74 Announces Hipno Plug-Ins
K-Sounds has announced two piano sample CD-ROM’s for the Yamaha Motif ES keyboards. Piano 1 features a Steinway D concert grand while Piano 2 features a Kawai EX concert grand Each disc includes nineteen solo piano voices and fifteen performances which cater to a variety of applications and styles. Voices vary brightness, timbre, and dynamic… Read More K-Sounds Motif ES Piano Libraries
NAMM 2005: ILIO has released four Groove Control activated collections as new S.A.G.E. Xpanders for Spectrasonics Stylus RMX virtual instrument. Each ILIO S.A.G.E. Xpander comes with the complete groove collection, plus a special “Bonus ILIO” section, and a library of new Stylus RMX Multi patches that allow more flexibility than ever using Spectrasonics’ S.A.G.E. technology.… Read More NAMM: ILIO Introduces 4 S.A.G.E Xpanders
NAMM Show News: ILIO Entertainments has announced a new sample library from Dirk Campbell, the creator of World Winds. Origins is an exhaustive collection of authentic, atmospheric historical sounds that can add color to the composer’s palette. As well as multisamples presented in a variety of different dynamics and articulations, the library features a large… Read More 2005 NAMM Show: ILIO Origins
