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Garritan Introduces Virtual Pipe Organs Collection At Winter 2008 NAMM

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

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Strum Acoustic GS-1 Is “Keyboardists’ Acoustic Guitar”

Namm Show Update: Applied Acoustics Systems introduced Strum Acoustic GS-1, an acoustic guitar software synthesizer that they describe as the keyboardists’ acoustic guitar. Strum provides a collection of steel and nylon acoustic guitars and includes elaborate voicing and strumming modules for the realistic reproduction of a guitarist’s playing techniques. Chords played on the keyboard are… Read More Strum Acoustic GS-1 Is “Keyboardists’ Acoustic Guitar”

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Vir2 Instruments Introduces Elite Orchestral Percussion and BASiS Virtual Instruments

Vir2 Instruments has introduced two new virtual instruments – Elite Orchestral Percussion and BASiS. Elite Orchestral Percussion offers 19 gigabytes of sterling orchestral percussion with a sophisticated script engine, and BASiS fills the low end with a large collection of electric, upright, fretless, and synth basses. Elite Orchestral Percussion Vir2 Instruments’ Elite Orchestral Percussion is… Read More Vir2 Instruments Introduces Elite Orchestral Percussion and BASiS Virtual Instruments

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Free Updates For Digidesign Hybrid and Strike Virtual Instruments

Winter NAMM Show: Digidesign announced updates Hybrid, its high-definition synthesizer, and Strike, its virtual drummer plug-in. Hybrid Version 1.5 offers a number of important new features, as well as a vast increase in the program’s already wide sonic palette. Boasting an entirely new VCF (Voltage Controlled Filter) vintage filter, this plug-in update makes it easier… Read More Free Updates For Digidesign Hybrid and Strike Virtual Instruments

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Glyph Hard Disk Drives Pre-Installed Ilio Virtual Instrument Software

Soundware and software distributor ILIO has announced a interesting program with hard drive maker Glyph Technologies to offer hard disk pre-installed with virtual instruments. ILIO’s G-TIP (Glyph–Turnkey Installation Program) packages will include virtual instrument software from Vienna Symphonic Library and Synthogy pre-installed on Glyph hard drives. Purchasers of these packages may register their software with… Read More Glyph Hard Disk Drives Pre-Installed Ilio Virtual Instrument Software

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NAMM Update: Eastwest’s Quantum Leap Pianos

EastWest intro’d Quantum Leap Pianos, a detailed collection of some of the world’s finest grand pianos. Description:  More than half a million dollars’ worth of pianos are included in this collection, all meticulously recorded by EastWest/Quantum Leap producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix. These include a $225,000 Bechstein D-280 Concert Grand. Other pianos featured in… Read More NAMM Update: Eastwest’s Quantum Leap Pianos

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AlgoMusic Updates Enceladus and ElectraBass Virtual Instruments

AlgoMusic and BK Synthlabs have teamed up to produce a new line of virtual instruments, including Enceladus v2 (Next Mission) and ElectraBass v1.1. Enceladus retails for 49.99, and ElectraBass for 35.00. You can preview both VST’s below. Enceladus V2 (Next Mission) Enceladus, above, is inspired by one of the many moons orbiting the ringed planet… Read More AlgoMusic Updates Enceladus and ElectraBass Virtual Instruments

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