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Output Release Arcade - A Loop And Sample Synthesiser - We Have An Exclusive Review For You

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The team at virtual instrument production house Output are very pleased to announce their latest creation, Arcade, a loop and sample-based synthesizer that has new content being added and updated daily. We have an exclusive review for you to check out too.

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tags: Output
categories: Sampler, Synthesiser, News, Plug-in
Thursday 06.14.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Waldorf Music Announces World’s First Fully FPGA Powered Synth

Waldorf Music Announces World’s First Fully FPGA Powered Synth

Waldorf Music has announced the full production launch and availability of Kyra in time for the 2019 NAMM Show, January 24-27, in Anaheim, California. They claim that Kyra is the world’s first fully FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) powered synthesiser featuring 128 voices each with 10 oscillators per voice, and eight-part multitimbrality with each part having its own dedicated nine-module effects unit.

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tags: Waldorf Music
categories: Synthesiser, News
Saturday 06.09.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Vienna Symphonic Library Release Synchron FX Strings I

Vienna Symphonic Library Release Synchron FX Strings I

The Vienna Symphonic Library has released Synchron FX Strings I, their first collection to include production-ready textures and loops, played by a 50-piece string orchestra recorded at Synchron Stage in Vienna. Synchron FX Strings I is currently available at a special introductory price until 30th June 2018.

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tags: Vienna Symphonic Library
categories: News, Soft Synth, Virtual Instrument
Wednesday 06.06.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Spitfire Audio Launches LABS - A Series Of Free Instruments - Soft Piano & Soft Strings

Spitfire Audio Launches LABS - A Series Of Free Instruments - Soft Piano & Soft Strings

Spitfire Audio has launched LABS, which they describe as an infinite series of software instruments, free and easy to use; made by musicians in London with Soft Piano and a new Strings library available now.

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tags: Spitfire, Strings, Free
categories: News, Soft Synth, Free Synth Plug-in
Saturday 06.02.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Propellerhead Software Release Reason 10.1 With Special Upgrade Offer Until 31st May 2018

Propellerhead Software Release Reason 10.1 With Special Upgrade Offer Until 31st May 2018

Propellerhead Software has released Reason 10.1 which features sample loading in Europa and support for new Player devices. To celebrate the launch of Reason 10.1 Propellerhead is offering a time-limited offer. If you buy the Reason Upgrade you will get Propellerhead’s new Drum Sequencer for free worth $69 but this offer ends on May 31st, 2018.

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tags: Reason, Propellerhead
categories: News, Sequencer, DAW, Synthesiser, Drum Machine
Sunday 05.13.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Rob Papen Release New Go2 Synthesiser For Just $49

Rob Papen Release New Go2 Synthesizer With Introductory Offer

In the Rob Papen world of synthesis, there was one type of synthesiser missing… A synthesiser that has all of the controls and features available visually all at once. Rob has plugged this gap by releasing the Go2 Synthesiser Virtual Instrument with 600 presets and priced at $49.

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tags: Rob Papen
categories: News, Plug-in, Soft Synth, Virtual Instrument, Synthesiser
Wednesday 05.09.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Spitfire Audio Release Chamber Strings Professional For The Kontakt Player Platform

Spitfire Audio Release Chamber Strings Professional For The Kontakt Player Platform

Spitfire Audio has released Chamber Strings Professional For The Kontakt Player Platform with string articulations and techniques taken from recordings of 16 of the finest strings players playing the finest instruments at Lyndhurst Hall within London’s legendary AIR Studios.

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tags: Spitfire
categories: News, Virtual Instrument
Sunday 05.06.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

IK Multimedia Offers Five New Synths For Syntronik and Syntronik CS Apps

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By popular request, IK Multimedia’s Syntronik and Syntronik CS apps for iPad and iPhone now offer new synths from the Syntronik Deluxe Mac/PC collection. Syntronik synths recreate the sound of vintage synthesizers by using sampling and modeling to ensure top notch results. IK's DRIFT™ technology varies the color, pitch and phase of the sampled oscillators to keep them moving like actual analog oscillators.

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tags: IK Multimedia
categories: News
Friday 05.04.18
Posted by Kevin Becka
 

Omnisphere 2.5 Announced - Hardware Synth Integration And More

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Spectrasonics has announced a significant update of Omnisphere, the virtual instrument synth powerhouse.

Omnisphere 2.5 offers a Hardware Synth Integration feature, which allows well-known hardware synthesisers hands-on control of Omnisphere’s newly-expanded synthesis capabilities.

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categories: News, Soft Synth, Hardware
Thursday 05.03.18
Posted by Synth Expert
 

IK Multimedia UNO Synth - a sub $200 true-analog, ultra-portable monophonic synthesizer

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IK Multimedia has joined the ever growing company of brands vying for a slice of the hardware synth market announcing the new IK Multimedia UNO Synth - a sub $200 and in their words "true-analog, ultra-portable monophonic synthesizer."

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tags: IK Multimedia
categories: Analog, Hardware, News, Synthesiser
Wednesday 05.02.18
Posted by Synth Expert
 

Ample Sound Release AGF Funk Extension and updates AGF to V2.55

Ample Sound Release AGF Funk Extension and updates AGF to V2.55

Amplesound has announced the release of Ample Guitar Fender Funk Extension which brings the Fender Stratocaster 50's sound to the mix. Sampled with the Middle and Bridge pickup, AGF Extension has been designed to sound bright and just right for any Funk music.

Ample Guitar Fender Funk Extension

  • Size: 3.13 GB, 24bit 44.1khz 
  • AU, VST, AAX or RTAS host application and professional sound card recommended. Stand-alone version included.
  • Sustain, Palm Mute, Natural Harmonic, Hammer On & Pull Off, Legato Slide, Slide in & out, Accentuated, Staccato, Dead Note 11 articulations.
  • You'll need to have installed and registered the UPDATED Ample Guitar Fender (AGF) to version 2.55 if you want to use this new Funk Extension. 

Ample Guitar Fender (AGF) 2.55 Update

  • Supports expansion library.
  • Adds new Funk riffs in Riffer, users need to install new Guitar Riffer Preset Installer.
  • Adds Auto Off Velocity feature for keyboards and DAWs which don't support Note Off Velocity.
  • Bug fix: Dead notes are triggered by repeating notes.

Demos

Intro Price

Ample Guitar Fender is priced at $109 and Funk Extension is priced at $49. Both are available with a 28% discount until April 19th, 2018.

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Output Release Arcade - A Loop And Sample Synthesiser - We Have An Exclusive Review For You
Output Release Arcade - A Loop And Sample Synthesiser - We Have An Exclusive Review For You
Waldorf Music Announces World’s First Fully FPGA Powered Synth
Vienna Symphonic Library Release Synchron FX Strings I
tags: Ample Sound
categories: Instrument, News, Virtual Instrument
Saturday 04.07.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Toontrack Release New Dream Machine Keyboard Instrument For EZkeys

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Today, our friends at Toontrack have just released a new keyboard expansion for EZkeys called Dream Machine that Toontrack say is a hybrid / preset-driven instrument designed for use in modern pop, ambient soundscapes and soundtracks.

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tags: Toontrack
categories: News, Instrument
Tuesday 04.03.18
Posted by Dan Cooper - Pro Tools Expert
 

Spitfire Audio Release Hans Zimmer Strings Sampling Library

Spitfire Audio Release Hans Zimmer Strings Sampling Library

Spitfire Audio has been working with Hans Zimmer, to create a string sampling library like no other with no fewer than 344 of the greatest players in London assembled at AIR Studios to have technology transform them into an extraordinary-sounding ensemble available as a plug-in aimed primarily for composers by composers and the result is Hans Zimmer Strings.

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tags: Spitfire
categories: Instrument, Sampler, Virtual Instrument, News
Sunday 04.01.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Roli Releases the Songmaker Kit

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Roli has released the Songmaker Kit, a portable music studio for creating a track anywhere using gear that is three music-making devices in one. The kit showcases ROLI BLOCKS, the modular music creation system that launched in 2016. While it’s possible to create dozens of kits with different Blocks, the Songmaker Kit’s combination of Seaboard Block, Lightpad Block M, and Loop Block is a tried and tested configuration for next-level music-making.

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tags: Roli
categories: News, New Gear
Wednesday 03.28.18
Posted by Kevin Becka
 

EastWest Celebrate 30 Years of Virtual Instruments with 50% Off Sale

EastWest Celebrate 30 Years of Virtual Instruments with 50% Off Sale

To celebrate their 30th anniversary, EastWest is offering 50% off of many of their products including the EastWest/Quantum Leap Hollywood Series with orchestra, strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, Symphonic Orchestra and Symphonic Choirs, Ministry of Rock, Silk, Stormdrum 2, and Goliath.

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tags: EastWest
categories: News, Virtual Instrument
Monday 03.26.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Strymon Release Four Head dTape Echo & Looper Eurorack Module

Strymon Release Four Head dTape Echo & Looper Eurorack Module

Having shown the Magneto Eurorack module at The 2018 NAMM Show, Strymon is proud to announce the availability of its first foray into the Eurorack small-format modular market with a Four Head dTape Echo & Looper module designed to create expansive soundscapes and evolving, otherworldly tones.

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tags: Eurorack
categories: Hardware, News, Modular
Saturday 03.24.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

e-instruments Announce Free TouchOSC Layout App For Session Keys Upright

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The team at e-instruments, makers of some of the finest Kontakt based instruments has announced TouchOSC layouts for Upright. TouchOSC is a customizable open sound control (OSC) and MIDI control surface app for mobile devices. You can buy it in Apple‘s App Store and at Google Play. (Links)

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tags: iOS
categories: Virtual Instrument, News, Interface
Friday 03.23.18
Posted by Studio One Expert
 

Q Up Arts Announce The Release of California Keys Keyboard Collection For KONTAKT

Q Up Arts Announce The Release of California Keys Keyboard Collection For KONTAKT

Q Up Arts has announced the availability of California Keys which is compatible with Native Instruments’ KONTAKT (5.5 full version or free player) platform as a sampled suite of instruments centred around a Fazioli 10ft grand piano presented in stereo and surround, scripted and designed for expressivity and playability to fit every style of playing, partnered with a set of vintage keyboards.

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tags: Organ, Kontakt, Keyboard
categories: News, Plug-in, Soft Synth, Vintage, Virtual Instrument
Saturday 03.17.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 

Toontrack Release UK Pop EZX Drum Library For EZ Drummer 2 & Superior Drummer 3

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Our friends at Toontrack have today released a new EZX drum library called UK Pop for Toontrack's popular drum instruments EZ Drummer 2 & Superior Drummer 3. 

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tags: Toontrack
categories: Drums, News
Tuesday 02.27.18
Posted by Dan Cooper - Pro Tools Expert
 

Akai Pro Announces MPC Software Has Been Updated To V2.1

Akai Pro Announces MPC Software Has Been Updated To V2.1

Akai Pro has announced that its MPC Software has been updated to v2.1. This major update for both LIVE/X Standalone Firmware OS and MPC Desktop Software introduces a number of new workflow enhancements and stability improvements.

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tags: Drum Machine
categories: Hardware, News, Drum Machine
Wednesday 02.21.18
Posted by Mike Thornton - Pro Tools Expert
 
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