Synk Audio‘s Musicbed DV is a unique Macintosh application that lets you take royalty-free stock music and customize it to create scores for videos or background music for podcasts and other productions. What makes Musicbed interesting, though, is that it isn’t a standard collection of stock music, but an application that lets you generate music… Read More Synk Musicbed DV Helps Mac Users Score
Bitnotic’s VX-323 Vocal Synthesizer is a free software instrument for the Macintosh that plays synthesized speech. Here’s an example of the VX-323 in action (MP3) The app is currently in beta testing, so the instrument has a built-in expiration date, but it seems stable. VX-323 lets you play synthesized speech with your Mac using your… Read More Synthesize Speech With Your Mac!
The latest sample library from Bitword, Wavefront for Reason, is a massive, overwhelming ReFill. It’s produced by Marc Van Bork, the producer/programmer behind Sonic Data Volume One and Prosamples Platininum Vapor Virtual Synthesizer. Van Bork’s clearly got an ear for creating cutting-edge electronic sounds. We called Wavefront massive and overwhelming, and it is – both… Read More Bitword Wavefront for Reason
Zero-G’s Analogue Sequencer Loops (ASL) is a sound library by Ian Boddy, a synthesist that carries the torch for classic 70’s Berlin-school style electronic music. The library is presented in Native Instruments Intakt format, which means that it’s a pain to register, but compatible with just about anything (it supports VST 2.0, DXi, ASIO, AU,… Read More Zero-G Analogue Sequencer Loops
Hal Leonard has introduced a line of TrackPaks, Apple Loops versions of classic songs. These loop collections are very different than any others that we’ve seen previously. Instead of being royalty-free collections, like most loop libraries, these are faithfully recorded loop-based versions of classic tunes. That means that you can’t take these loops and use… Read More Classic Rock TrackPak: Apple Loops for GarageBand
The 70’s were a rich time for pop music. Heavy metal, disco, punk rock, and electronica all emerged in the decade. It was a time of extreme variety, when Boston had a hit with Long Time, the Cars with Let the Good Times Roll, King Harvest with Dancing in the Moonlight, Chic hit it with… Read More Zero-G: Sounds of the 70’s
Drum Spirit is the name of a new release from Sonic Vision, a South African producer of CD sample libraries. The CD is an interesting collection of traditional drum loops, percussive vocal hits and loops, and vocal phrases. The release features master African percussionist Mabi Gabriel Thobejane, who has traveled the world and toured with… Read More Sonic Vision Drum Spirit Sample CD
Sounds of Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia, a sample-based virtual instrument from Zero-G, combines great sounds with a state-of-the-art sample engine to bring the sounds of the South Pacific to your computer. Zero-G calls Sounds of Polynesia a virtual sound module. It’s a massive 1.4 gig library of sounds organized in a very flexible sampling interface.… Read More Sounds of Polynesia Virtual Sound Module
FabFilter One is a new virtual synth for the PC that offers basic monosynth functionality, but does it exceptionally well. FabFilter One is the first release from FabFilter Software Instruments. FSI is a Dutch software developer, founded in 2002 by Frederik Slijkerman and Floris Klinkert. They felt that most software instrument companies had rushed into… Read More FabFilter One Soft Synth
Kinetic is a groove-oriented audio/MIDI workstation for the PC. It is the latest application from Cakewalk, best known for its Sonar sequencer and Project5 software studio. Kinetic is designed to make it easy and fast to create, arrange and perform with grooves. While the application has similarities to Sonar’s Project5 and Apple’s Garageband, Kinetic stakes… Read More Cakewalk Kinetic Review: Export This Groove
