Ableton has released a new pack for Live, Mallets by Soniccouture. Mallets brings two “expertly sampled” melodic percussion instruments, marimba and vibraphone, to Ableton Live. The dark, velvety timbre of the marimba and the vibraphone’s shimmering oscillations were captured using full-range concert models and include the lower octaves often missing from sampled mallets.
Steinberg has released Groove Agent 4, the latest version of their ‘drum studio and virtual drumming instrument.’
The developers at Output recently set out to produce an Electro-Cinematic track using various elements of REV, while using all 4 of the its engines. Gregg, one of the developers at Output, described the process: “[W]e recently made a video on how to make tracks like M83, Clint Mansell, Trent Reznor, etc., where we show… Read More Creating Cinematic Tracks With Output REV
LinnStrument cover : The Choice from The Last Of Us was uploaded by: Geert Bevin
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AfroDJMac has released a free Ableton Live instrument, made by sampling a 1970’s Univox bass. The instrument was recorded coming through a guitar amp, a bass amp, and a room mic picking up both amps. You can mix between the two. Controls on the Device rack allow you to morph the bass into something totally new.… Read More Free Bass Guitar Instrument For Ableton Live
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a swingin’ 60’s style virtual instrument jam – a cover of Al Hirt’s Java by Yannick Zenhäusern.
DrumsAnywhere is a new application for Windows that turns your table into a drum kit. The app detects hits captured by a simple microphone and translates them into a variety of drum sounds. DrumsAnywhere uses a detection algorithm called WaveTrack that analyzes the reflections generated by a hit on a surface as well as its accurate location.… Read More New App, DrumsAnywhere, Turns Your Table Into A Drum Kit
It’s all right. Virtual instrument and sample library-maker ILIO has announced EDM Eclipse: Solar. This collection of 130 new patches for Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere is the counterpart and contrast to ILIO’s sister collection EDM Eclipse: Lunar. As described by its creators, Solar is “geared for adrenalin-inducing power using hard-hitting synths, sick basses, leads, pads, SFX, and… Read More Here Comes The Sun! EDM Eclipse: Solar For Omnisphere
Retronyms has updated its Tabletop virtual studio for the iPad, adding support for the Akai Pro iMPC Pro virtual instrument.
Akai Pro released iMPC Pro, its re-imagining of the Music Production Center for the iPad, earlier this week. While iMPC Pro was heavily anticipated, many musicians have expressed disappointment over the app’s lack of MIDI support. Many would like to use the app with their existing controllers or use it like a hardware MPC, to sequence… Read More iMPC Pro MIDI Input Details For Custom Controllers
