SoundTrek has introduced SoundTrek Drummer, an MFX MIDI plug-in designed to create realistic sounding and creative drum beats using your favorite drum sounds in your preferred MFX or VST host application. Features Create realistic sounding drum beats in a variety of musical styles. Quickly and easily create anything from a single drum instrument to a… Read More New Virtual Drummer
Eiosis has updated the ELS Vocoder to v1.6. This new version brings a smaller interface option which allows using the ELS Vocoder with laptop screen resolutions more comfortably. You can now switch between both sizes with a simple option, and you need to reload the ELS Vocoder to apply the GUI settings. With the small… Read More Virtual Vocoder Updated
2008 Winter NAMM Show Update: EastWest introduced Chris Hein Bass – 12.7 GB of bass sounds, some of which feature the powerful tones of a Music Man StingRay electric-bass-both picked and slapped; a LeFay fretless bass as well as the sounds of a unique upright bass. For variety, the upright bass is played with three… Read More EASTWEST Debuts Best Service’s Chris Hein Bass
NuSofting has introduced Broken Drum Machine, a VST inspired by a combination of several old school beat boxes and the circuit-bending culture around the “toy” Casio and Yamaha keyboards of the 80s. BDM is a plugin instrument designed for the musicians who love chaos and usually find the unpredictable behaviour of an uncontrollable sound machine stimulating… Read More NUSofting BDM Drum Synthesizer Released
Winter NAMM Show Update: MOTU debuted Electric Keys, a $295 cross-platform virtual instrument that delivers the sounds of 50 classic keyboard instruments from the last 40 years. The 40GB sound library includes over 20,000 24-bit 96 kHz multi-samples of electric pianos, electric organs, clavinets, Wurlitzers, tape samplers, string machines, keyboard basses and other rare and… Read More MOTU Announces Electric Keys At NAMM 2008
Winter NAMM Update: IK Multimedia announced that a special edition of IK Multimedia’s SampleTank, with sounds from over $3500 worth of IK’s award-winning virtual instrument products, such as Miroslav Philharmonik, SampleMoog, Sonik Synth 2, SampleTron, Studiophonik and SampleTank, will come bundled inside the Yamaha X-Factor DVD, which ships with all Yamaha music production products, including… Read More IK Multimedia Announces SampleTank YE Bundled With All Yamaha MIDI Controllers/Workstations
Winter NAMM Show Update: Garritan’s new Virtual Pipe Organs collection is designed to capture the grandeur of a variety of different historic and contemporary pipe organs: a Small (Early) Baroque Organ (circa 1740); a Late Baroque organ (“Bach”— circa 1748); a Gothic organ; a Renaissance organ (one of Europe’s oldest circa 1587); a Romantic organ… Read More Garritan Introduces Virtual Pipe Organs Collection At Winter 2008 NAMM
NAMM Show: EastWest has released the Fab Four Virtual Instrument – and unauthorized collection of virtual instruments based on the same kind of instruments and recording equipment used by the Beatles to create their music. I was able to check Fab Four out on the show floor, and it sounds like they’ve done a great… Read More The Fab Four Get Virtualized
Winter NAMM Show Update: EastWest announced Ethno World 4 Professional, a collection of more than 200 ethnic instruments and 14,000 samples developed by German composer Marcel Barsotti. “Ethno World 4 gives users access to unique and often rare instruments that would be almost impossible to incorporate into a project without a collections such as this,”… Read More New Ethnic Virtual Instrument Library
Winter NAMM Update: Art Vista Productions announced MALMSJO GVI — a new version of its sampled Malmsjo Grand Piano. The MALMSJO GVI has been given a substantial face-lift, and an increase in dynamic range, by the use of the new DEF technology offered by Tascam in its Giga software. MALMSJO GVI has also been enhanced… Read More Art Vista Introduces MALMSJO GVI Enhanced Sample Library
