This is a promo video for Pascal Gabriel’s Melophobia Machine ReFill. Description: The Melophobia Machine ReFill lets you tap straight into the ways and working methods of free thinking producer Pascal Gabriel, giving you instant access to his particular kind of magic. This ReFill gives you a chance to add unique material from actual Pascal productions… Read More Pascal Gabriel’s Melophobia Machine ReFill
SoundJump has released a new sample library, Vintage Drum Machines. The VDM Complete collection contains the following vintage drum machine emulations: 808 DMX MXR 909 Drumtraks SDSV 707 Drumulator SK-1 727 Linn9000 Rhythm Ace
Teragon Audio has released KickMaker, a synthesizer designed specifically for making good kick drum sounds. It feautures four independent oscillators and a wide range of effects, letting you create customized beats. “KickMaker is the perfect solution for producers who are tired of using factory samples or ordinary drum machines, and want an easy way to create a… Read More Free Kick Drum Synthesizer
Alfred Sarkis has released a new $.99 iPhone app, Tabla (App Store link). Description: The Tabla (also known as Arabic drum, darbukkah, darbouka or dumbak) is a single-headed hand- drum found in most Arab music ensembles. This application provides a Tabla with 5 different beat sounds, the “Doum” in the middle, and 4 different “Taks”… Read More New iPhone Tabla App
Soundside’s RealPiano (App Store link) sounds surprisingly good. It’s a sample-based piano that seems to be limited primarily by the fact that the iPhone interface doesn’t offer a lot of expressive options. Features: Professional sounds: 16 bit resolution 44.1KHz sample frequency Uncompressed samples – Full stereo Enhanced reverb (hall) sound Optimized for both headphones and… Read More iPhone Piano Sounds Surprisingly Good
Yonac Software has released MelodiFone (App Store link), a new virtual wind instrument. It’s one of a growing number of simple iPhone instruments. On first glance, these instruments are toys. But consider all the music toys (Optigan, Melodica, Speak ‘n’ Spell, etc) that people are using in interesting ways in electronic music. Description: Modeled with… Read More MelodiFone
Arman Bohn has released a free virtual instrument for Windows, the Glass Armanica VSTi. It’s a virtual recreation of Ben Franklin’s rubbed glass instrument, known as the Glass Harmonica, Armonium, Hydrocrystalophone, or Armonica. The Glass Harmonica makes gorgeous, ethereal sounds. Here’s a sample from Bohn’s Glass Armanica: [display_podcast] The samples were created by filling wine… Read More Gorgeous Virtual Glass Harmonica
Native Instruments has introduced True Strike Tension, a new Kore Soundpack with percussion sounds designed to add mystery and tension to cinematic film scores and similar musical styles. True Strike Tension is built on sample material that has been carefully selected from ProjectSAM’s acclaimed True Strike 2 library. It draws upon various percussion instruments from… Read More Native Instruments Intros Cinematic Percussion SoundPack
Remember the iPhone Ocarina? I thought it was pretty cool, because it brought a range of expressiveness to iPhone instruments. Maybe I was wrong – in this video, goddesslynz plays Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera on the iPhone Ocarina application…with her nose.
http://vimeo.com/1518816 Audio Impressions has announced Version 2.0 of DVZ Strings, their virtual-instrument strings library that comes with their Divisi technology, which creates real-world, real-time, section balances. Version 2 Features: DVZ Strings now use Audio Impressions’ proprietary software that enables Mac and PC computers to work together and eliminates the need of additional D/A converters by routing the… Read More Audio Impressions Updates DVZ Strings
