Ohm Force has announced a fun contest – How The Minimonsta Saved The World. How it works: you make a cool track with Minimonsta before November 30th (you can use the free demo version), you send it to Ohm Force, you win cool stuff. Details here. How The Minimonsta Saved The World comic below:
http://vimeo.com/2054067 Smule has introduced a new app, Ocarina, that turns your iPhone into a virtual Ocarina. I’ve been skeptical about a lot of the iPhone virtual instruments, because many of them don’t offer much in the way of expressive capabilities. Ocarina challenges that skepticism by offering an application that responds to your breath, so you… Read More New App Turns Your iPhone Into A Virtual Ocarina, Lets You Play The Legend Of Zelda Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdaFfbNXej8 MilkyApps’ BeatBox Live (App Store link) is a $2.99 drum pad music application that lets you play your own drum patterns and also play over original urban/pop/rock music. BeatBox Live includes 6 different drum kits and 12 original soundtracks. Kits Include: Beatbox Drums (Vocal Beats) 808 Drums Latin Drums Hip-Hop Drums Indie Drums Euro/Dance… Read More New App Turns Your iPhone Into A BeatBox
Nucleus Sound Labs has released Digital Keys, a new retro keyboard sample library. Description: Bring the 80s keyboard sound to your productions with this faithful sampling of Roland’s MKS-20 keyboard synthesizer. MK Digital Keys is available in three format packages: Reason Refill, WusikEngine, and Kontakt/EXS/SFZ. Back in 1986, there weren’t many good ways to take a… Read More New Retro Keyboard Sample Library
Sugar Bytes has introduced Consequence – a chord groovebox, with “a surprising depth of possibilities while being easy to use, due to an intuitive workflow.” Description: Chords are alternated, split up to custom arpeggios and turned into leg-driving basslines, amazing melodies or dreamy sound textures. The internal audio recorder keeps your ideas when they come or records… Read More Sugar Bytes Intros Consequence Chord Groovebox
GearWire’s Bill Holland demos Native Instruments’ Virtual Jarre: Reaktor Equinox.
Sonic State takes a look at the GForce Software M-Tron; it ads the newly developed synth engine from their Virtual String Machine to add deep filter and effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs1rk6M-n60 SampleModeling has announced an amazingly realistic virtual instrument, Tenor Saxophone: We are proud to present the result of our collaboration with Stefano Lucato. Stefano was the developer, along with Dr. Giorgio Tommasini, of the Stradivari Violin and the Gofriller Cello. Stefano Lucato & Samplemodeling created the next groundbreaking virtual instrument: the Tenor Saxophone! It´s… Read More Amazing New Tenor Saxophone Virtual Instrument
Impact Soundworks has released a new ethnic instrument sample library in Kontakt format: Sitar Nation: Classical Instruments of India. “Sitar Nation” was designed to address the lack of sample collections focusing exclusively on Indian instruments with a level of depth normally reserved for violins and pianos. Priced at $119 as a digital download, the library enables… Read More New Sound Library: Sitar Nation: Classical Instruments of India
Sonic Reality has released Ultra Sonic Refills for Reason 4, the sequel to their Sonic Refill series for Reason. The new refills are available in three bundles Ultra Hip Hop Ultra Electronic Ultra Symphonic Between all of the new Ultra Sonic Refill titles there are 18 individual refills containing over 15 gigabytes of samples with over… Read More Ultra Sonic Refills for Reason 4
