Steinberg has announced an addition to its virtual player range of virtual musicians: Virtual Bassist. “Featuring the talents of the programming team behind Virtual Guitarist and Groove Agent, Virtual Bassist provides all manner of bass guitar phrases, sounds and styles,” comments Helge Vogt, Steinberg’s Product Manager for VST Instruments. “Steinberg is now in the unique… Read More Steinberg Announces Virtual Bassist
Spectrasonics has announced a series five new expansion libraries called “S.A.G.E. Xpanders” to enhance the variety of choices for the newly released Stylus RMX virtual groove instrument. The five Groove Control activated Xpanders are based on the company’s award-winning Backbeat, Retro Funk, Liquid Grooves, Burning Grooves and Metamorphosis collections. Each Xpander comes on a DVD-ROM… Read More Spectrasonics Adds S.A.G.E. Xpanders for Stylus RMX
Kid Nepro is now producing their sample libraries for Native Instruments Kontakt Software Sampler. The first release for Kontakt is the Kid Nepro Drum and Bass CD-ROM. All Sounds are also compatible with Native Instruments Intakt, Kompakt and Battery Samplers. The Kid Nepro Kontakt Drum/Bass CD contains over 1000 Single Shot Drum and Percussion Samples… Read More Kid Nepro Adds Drum and Bass Samplers for Kontakt
Precisionsound has released Nordic Upright Piano for HALion & Kontakt. The goal behind the Nordic Upright Piano is to capture the ring and dynamics of a good essential Swedish piano. The instrument was sampled in mono and the position of the close positioned microphone was changed per each octave. Then the piano was “re-built” in… Read More Precisionsound Releases Nordic Upright Piano for HALion & Kontakt
Intuem has announced the latest release of their namesake application, Intuem RW. Responding to customer requests, Intuem RW has full ReWire 2 support, audio play-through, a newly designed Mixer, several new “Pro” features, and a host of convenience features. Intuem RW works with any ReWire 2 device, like the very popular Reason from Propellerhead Software… Read More Intuem RW Released
Waves Ltd. has announced a major expansion of its IR Convolution Reverb plug-in series. Added are IR-360, for multi-channel surround sound; IR-1 Version 2, which now lets users capture their own samples; and IR-L, an entry-level light version offering simpler controls. Waves also announced the launch of www.Acoustics.net, a dedicated website offering a newly expanded… Read More Waves Expands Convolution Reverb Line
John Bowen Synth Design/Zarg Music has released the ReD drum, a user-defined variable architecture drum box for the Scope platform. One of the Red Dwarf (RD) line of semi-modular products, the ReD Drum has 8 insert slots and comes with 33 modules, from which the user can then select a sound source material for each… Read More Zarg Introduces ReD Drum Semi-Modular Drum Machine
The Eventide H8000A is an eight-channel processor designed specifically to give operators in live performance environments maximum flexibility with four analog and four digital AES I/O channels. “Our customers who used the H8000 in live settings reveled in its power and performance but needed more analog I/O,” said Ray Maxwell, Eventide vice president of sales… Read More Eventide Introduces Ultra-Harmonizer
Glaresoft iDrum is a programmable drum machine designed exclusively for Mac OS X. iDrum integrates seamlessly with GarageBand, Logic, Digital Performer and other applications that support AudioUnit plug-ins or runs as a stand-alone application. iDrum is skinnable, and includes the ability to change skins on the fly. iDrum is designed to be as simple to… Read More M-Audio Distributing iDrum OS X Drum Machine
AudioWarrior has introduce Acoustic Dreadnought, a Reason Refill designed to let you use a strumming action on a MIDI keyboard to play guitar chords. The programming for Reason’s NN-XT takes care of organizing the individual notes into chords, ready for you to lay out on the keyboard for performance. The brand new half-gig library is… Read More AudioWarrior Announces Strummable Acoustic Dreadnought ReFill
