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.
XILS-lab has introduced StiX, a virtual drum machine that they say offers ‘an incredible variety of drums sounds of different eras’.
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:
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
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
SampleScience has released Orion Sound Module, a free 3GB rompler that features 97 virtual instruments, for Mac & Windows. According to the company, Orion “is perfect to sketch out ideas before using bigger libraries that can tax the RAM and CPU very quickly.” Here’s what they have to say about it:
AudioThing has introduced Latin Percussion, a sample-based plugin emulation of the Sound Master Latin Percussion, a rare analog drum machine from the 80’s. The instrument features 6 classic latin sounds: Bass, Low Conga, High Conga, Bongo, Claves, and Maracas, which can be pitched, panned or mixed independently. You can additionally shape the sound with the… Read More AudioThing Latin Percussion Recreates Vintage Analog Drum Machine
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.
At the 2016 NAMM Show: Virtual instruments developer AIR Music Technology announced this week their newest expansion pack, AIEP3. The AIR Instrument Expansion Pack 3 (AIEP3) is a collection of existing titles, such as Loom, Strike, Structure, Transfuser 2, Vacuum Pro, Velvet, Hybrid 3, along with the newly added DB-33, Mini Grand, The Riser plus… Read More Air Music Tech Expands Virtual Instrument Offerings With AIEP3
Virtual instrument developer SONiVOX announced at The 2016 NAMM Show that they have released the first five of its series of virtual instruments called Singles. SoniVox describe Singles as “bite-sized downloadable virtual instruments” which provide producers “a single high-quality instrument at an outstanding value.” With Singles, artists can choose the specific instrument they need, complete… Read More SoniVox Debuts ‘Singles’ Virtual Instruments at 2016 NAMM Show
