Vatanator is a new drum machine for iPad that is designed to emulate vintage drum machines, but with modern features. It comes with 140 built-in drum machine presets, but also offers the ability to add your own samples. It features advanced MIDI integration, MIDI learn and iOS must-haves, like AudioCopy, Audiobus, Inter-App Audio & Ableton Link.
In collaboration with artist and sound designer Daniel Stawczyk a.k.a. Status, Applied Acoustics Systems has released their Synbiosis sound bank for the Chromaphone 2 synthesizer and AAS Player plug-ins. Synbiosis is sound designer Daniel Stawczyk’s fifth volume in AAS’ Sound Bank Series and his first one for Chromaphone. This 130-preset collection includes arpeggiators, basses, bells,… Read More AAS Releases Synbiosis Sound Bank for Chromaphone 2
This video takes a look creating custom drum kits in Arturia iSpark:
Sample Logic has released Morphestra 2, a virtual instrument that they describe as a ‘morphed cinematic orchestra’. Morphestra 2 weighs in at over 25 GBs and offers 5,000+ morphed cinematic instruments & multis, derived entirely from true orchestral recordings. Morphestra is powered by Native Instruments’ Kontakt 5 platform (full version or Kontakt Player). Here’s the official intro video:
Dutch producer Legowelt (Danny Wolfers) has released a free drum machine for Ableton Live, based on his old Amiga 909 sample floppy disc. Here’s what he has to say about it:
Auddict has introduced Octohorn, an eight-player French Horn ensemble, offering seven mic positions to offer precise control over the ensemble sound. The seven mic positions are designed to cover the whole sound-scape, and chord and octave sampling minimize “sample layering” in tracks. The multiple mic positions let you mix between the perspectives; Decca tree sides and mid, flanks, room, woodwind… Read More Auddict Debuts Eight-Player French Horn Ensemble, Octohorn
Rob Papen has released RG – his rhythm guitar groovebox instrument – as a Rack Extension for Propellerhead Reason.
Arturia has released iSpark for iPad – an iPad version of its Spark virtual drum machine. iSpark is designed to let you play drum patterns in-real time and to tweak your sound on-the-fly. It also integrates a powerful and flexible 64-step sequencer. iSpark combines Arturia’s TAE technology with with a modular engine and multi-layered samples – so it can… Read More Arturia iSpark A Powerful iPad Drum Machine, Compatible With Spark 2
Korg has updated Gadget for iOS to version 2.0, making it Universal (iPhone, iPad & iPad Pro), adding support for iCloud synchronization between your devices; adding insert effects; support for Korg’s wireless controllers and more. KORG Gadget offers a collection of more than 20 different synthesizers and drum machine virtual instruments called “Gadgets “.
At the end of last year, RealiTone introduced RealiDrums – a new virtual instrument that is guaranteed to give you the drum sound that you want. Here’s a quick intro to RealiDrums, via Sonic State, from Realitone’s Mike Green.
