At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Garritan announced the Garritan World Instrument, which features a comprehensive collection of instruments from around the world: The Garritan World Instrument collection offers a large variety of flutes — Native American flutes, bamboo flues, Irish flutes, Chinese and Japanese flutes, Indian flutes, clay flutes, pan flutes, nose flutes and… Read More NAMM Update: Garritan World Instrument Library
At the 2009 NAMM Show, Garritan announced a new edition of its Garritan Personal Orchestra. The 4th Edition of Garritan Personal Orchestra now contains the Garritan ARIA sample engine and adds new features, new instrument sounds, updated programming and a lower price. Garritan Personal Orchestra 4th Edition includes all the major instruments of the orchestra… Read More NAMM: Garritan Personal Orchestra 4th Edition
At the 2009 NAMM Show, Garritan announced Garritan Orchestral Strings 2, the sequel to its popular Garritan Orchestral Strings. The new string library will be powered by the Garritan ARIA sample engine. The library includes the complete string sections of the orchestra as well as an extended complement of solo strings. The stringed instruments recorded… Read More NAMM: Garritan Orchestral Strings 2
NAMM Show Update: EASTWEST introduced PLAY 2.0, which adds professional editing capabilities. The editor featured in PLAY 2.0 is the same software that the company uses to program its PLAY-powered virtual instrument collections. “When we originally designed PLAY, it was intended to offer a powerful but easy-to-use interface for users to playback the included sounds,”… Read More NAMM Show: Eastwest PLAY 2.0 Gets Pro Editing Features
At the 2009 NAMM Show, Eastwest/Quantum Leap introduced Quantum Leap SILK – a virtual (software) instrument that features a collection of historic and unique string and woodwind instruments from China, Persia and India. I was able to check SILK out at NAMM, and it’s an awesome-sounding sound library that’s likely to see a lot of work on… Read More Quantum Leap Silk Virtual Instrument
At the 2009 NAMM Show, Arturia introduced Brass 2, featuring virtual recreations of three wind instruments – a trumpet, a saxophone and a trombone. The characteristics of the real instruments have been analysed and modelled by Ircam Paris using mathematical algorithms. Here’s what’s new in Brass version 2.0: New physical modelling of the saxophone Two… Read More Arturia Brass 2.0
http://vimeo.com/2844740 An introduction to MOTU BPM – an MPC style virtual instrument. via Stretta
2009 Winter NAMM Show: SONiVOX announced the release of Playa – a Hip Hop Virtual Instrument for MAC and PC. Playa’s user interface is designed to bridge the gap between MPC style beat creation and computer based virtual instruments. Features: Over 400 SONiVOX Instruments, including fat synths, basses, drums, leads, orchestral instruments, ethnic instruments, guitars, strings… Read More SONiVOX Playa – A Virtual Instrument For Hip Hop
2009 Winter NAMM Show: Scheduled for release in later Spring 2009 is the Mixosaurus KIT B virtual drum library. Description: “B” as in Big … Boom … Bubinga! We’ve set up a fine TAMA Starclassic Bubinga kit in the big, ambient Teldex Lounge, fitted it with EVANS heads and completed the package with a set of Cymbals by… Read More Mixosaurus Intros New Virtual Drum Library
Insert Piz Here has released Mr. Alias 2, a freeware instrument plug-in for Windows, Mac and Linux: Mr. Alias 2 uses non-bandlimited oscillators which can be transposed near to and beyond the Nyquist frequency, causing most of their spectra to be aliased back into audible non-harmonic frequencies. The sound can then be further processed by a… Read More Free New Virtual Instrument For Windows, Mac, Linux
