Sound Library Features Noises Of The Human Body. No! Not Those Noises!

SONiVOX MI has released Anatomy, a sample library for Kontakt that features exclusively human body sounds. Anatomy offers over eight-hundred instruments that “twist and transform the human body into one expansive collection of physiological melody and rhythm. Anatomy sonically explores the human condition in ways never dared attempted previously, delivering you a deep, diverse &… Read More Sound Library Features Noises Of The Human Body. No! Not Those Noises!

April 24, 2008Leave a comment

Cool Free Drum Synth From NUSofting

NUSofting has released Groove Analogizer, an audio controlled drum synthesizer, as freeware. Similar to a vintage electronic drum tone generator (e.g. Simmons) the percussion sound is triggered by an audio input, not by a MIDI message. Groove Analogizer features: 3 oscillators synth (loads as effect plug-in), triggered and shaped by the audio input in many… Read More Cool Free Drum Synth From NUSofting

April 23, 2008Leave a comment

SampleTron Virtual Mellotron Now Shipping

IK Multimedia is now shipping SampleTron, a virtual instrument workstation featuring a collection of authentic “Tron” and other vintage keyboards instrument samples. According to IK, SampleTron includes the most complete “Tron” anthology ever released in one virtual instrument, with over 2 GB of sounds, 640 presets and 260 multi-samples from 17 rare and vintage Mellotrons,… Read More SampleTron Virtual Mellotron Now Shipping

April 23, 20081 Comment

John Bonham Style Drum Library

Rayzoon has released BonzoPak – a John Bonham style drum library for Jamstix virtual drummer VSTi. I’m a little iffy on the whole idea of cloning a dead musician’s sound, but I’m sure there’s a place for this. If you’re interested at all in the idea, check out the Rayzoon demos – like Little Bitta… Read More John Bonham Style Drum Library

April 22, 2008Leave a comment

Propellerhead Reason Discussion

The discussion on our Reason 4 preview has gone out of control – it’s up to 53 comments already! If you haven’t weighed in yet – check out what other people are saying and add your two cents worth!

April 17, 2008Leave a comment

Atomic Synth Inspired By Buchla, Future Retro Revolution

Atomic is a 16 step sequencer composing tool with a built in synth that also has the ability to control other softsynths or even hardware via its MIDI out function. The design is circular, inspired by step sequencers such as the Buchla Arbitrary Function Generator and Future Retro Revolution. You can preview Atomic below: [display_podcast]… Read More Atomic Synth Inspired By Buchla, Future Retro Revolution

April 15, 2008April 15, 20083 Comments

Psychosynth – Free Soft Synth Inspired By Reactable

The Psychosynth project aims to create an interactive modular soft-synth inspired by the ideas of the Reactable. Here’s how the Psychosynth creators describe their virtual instrument: Our main goal is to create a free software alternative to allow newbies, developers and professionals explore new ways of making music. It is also important to build a… Read More Psychosynth – Free Soft Synth Inspired By Reactable

April 15, 2008April 16, 20081 Comment

Soniccouture Intros Kontakt Scriptorium

[display_podcast] Soniccouture has announced the release of Kontakt Scriptorium, a collection of KSP Scripts, a sound library and set of tutorial videos for Native Instruments Kontakt 2 and 3. KSP scripts are like ‘plug-ins’ for Kontakt. KSP allows you to manipulate Kontakt parameters at a microscopic level, creating new behaviours, unique timbral characters or even… Read More Soniccouture Intros Kontakt Scriptorium

April 14, 2008Leave a comment

The Coolest Thing You’ll See This Weekend

This gets my vote for the coolest thing you’ll see this weekend. It’s a live performance using the Hobnox AudioTool – the new browser-based virtual studio – using a MIDI controller and Percussa AudioCubes. See the tutorial at the Hobnox site, too! Joa Ebert & Kai-Phillip, via David

April 12, 2008April 12, 20083 Comments

Hobnox AudioTool Is Like Reason For Your Web Browser

If you check out one thing this weekend, check out Hobnox AudioTool. It’s like Reason for your Web browser – a collection of Web-based audio tools that you can patch together in play, including a TB303, TR808, TR909 and a variety of effects pedals. It’s just a demo, but I’m impressed. Let me know what… Read More Hobnox AudioTool Is Like Reason For Your Web Browser