This plug-in uses stereo delays to create what is known as the “precedence effect”, also known as the “Haas effect” after Helmut Haas who’s 1949 Ph.D. thesis first described this psycho-acoustic phenomenon. The Haas effect creates a sense of direction by using the same system our own ears use to…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: having blown musical minds and opened ears when unveiling its AudioFuse at The NAMM Show 2015, January 22-25 in Anaheim, California, today music software and hardware developer Arturia is proud to reveal what makes this next-generation audio interface technically tick (all the boxes)… Sound is where the musical…
Montreal, Quebec—March 24, 2015—It’s with excitement that Applied Acoustics Systems announces the release of Strum GS‐2, an all-new version of its award-wining guitar track production plug-in. Strum GS‐2 reproduces the sound of acoustic guitars and also the playing techniques of a guitar player—making the production of guitar tracks in a…
Fiedler Audio/ Munich, Germany, March 23th, 2015 (ictw) – Fiedler Audio have just launched the AD 480 Reverb Rack Extension for Propellerhead Reason and Reason Essentials. The AD 480 Reverb now makes its first desktop appearance on the Rack Extension platform after its successful life as an App for iOS…
BROOKLYN, NY, USA: synth-pop Svengali Vince Clarke is proud to announce that he will be releasing a series of creative and utilitarian modules for the ever-present Eurorack small-format modular system under the namesake Clarke company name, designed and built to exacting standards in close collaboration with British ‘boutique’ analogue synthesiser…
Stockholm, Sweden, March 18, 2015 (ictw) – Propellerhead Software today announce three new Rig bundles for Reason 8. Expand your rack with hand-picked bundles of the top instruments, effects, and sample packs, made by leading developers such as Propellerhead, iZotope, Softube, Korg, Rob Papen, and more. Each bundle is designed…
San Diego, CA (Mar 9, 2015) (ictw) — Positive Grid today announced the “Mobile Guitar Effects Month”, the biggest iOS guitar giveaway of the year in partnership with PreSonus and Griffin Technology. During March, guitarists and bassists worldwide will be able to win various iOS guitar software such as Positive…
If you liked the Sunbird, the GD-6 Acoustic Guitar and the Telematic, you will love the UKU! Unlike many other ukulele sample libraries, UKU can both play strums and solo notes, but not only! You can play any chord, any voicing, and even create your own, even impossible ones and…
SFZ Designer is a cutting-edge sample mapping tool optimized for multiple velocity and round-robin layers. It features a streamlined workflow, assisted opcode entry, draggable key-range and velocity splits-points, and more. It supports all SFZ 1.0 opcodes (full 2.0 support coming soon) and directly exports to .sfz format. I recommend…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware company Arturia is proud to announce availability of KeyLab 88 — its top-of-the-range, professional-grade, 88-note hammer-action hybrid MIDI keyboard controller that comes complete with Arturia’s acclaimed Analog Lab software synthesizer solution and more besides — as of February 24… Since first turning heads…
The best first: the price is still at 4.99 USD, the regular price will be 9.99 USD. What’s new? – Added „send to selected pad“ option in preferences. When unselected, BeatHawk do not override incoming MIDI channel with selected pad channel – Added Audio and MIDI Preferences to main menu…
Ample Sound has released Ample Guitar II, a completely recreated program with loads of new features, including: New sample engine with significant performance improvement: Multiple instances can be loaded much faster and takes only a small amount of additional memory. Improved voice management significantly enhances performance. New Strummer with drag…
Oriental Soloist is a set of 30 sounds designed for oriental solo style playing designed and sampled by Dr Raid Marji, one of the pioneers in sampling and sound design in the middle east area. The set is designed carefully to suit all needs for solo playing whether it is…
Tracktion 6 (T6), the latest version of our highly acclaimed, single-screen digital audio workstation, has arrived. Packing major improvements to the interface, automation, comp grouping, editing, time management and much more. A typical left-to-right T6 edit screen displaying inputs, wave forms, MIDI notes, automation, plug-in effects and a mixer appears…
GRENOBLE, FRANCE: music software and hardware company Arturia is proud to collectively celebrate the anniversary of its game-changing SparkLE Creative Drum Machine with two time-sensitive discount deals available to registered users and those new to Arturia alike… “Small, concise, yet with full controls to edit and manipulate any sound, as…
KINGSWINFORD, UK: British ‘boutique’ analogue synthesiser and accessory designer/manufacturer Analogue Solutions is proud to announce availability of its all-new Nyborg-12 — an Oberheim SEM-style 2-Pole 12dB/Octave MULTIMODE FILTER-equipped standalone monophonic synthesiser module with real analogue voice and modulation circuitry — as of February 4… An analogue renaissance has ensured…
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, January 2015… It has been a long road since Jim Odom and his former high school and LSU classmate Brian Smith, designed, built, and sold their first piece of professional audio equipment back in 1995. Working in a borrowed garage space in their home city of…
LONDON, UK: compositional tools creator Spitfire Audio is delighted to launch DAVID FANSHAWE – EARTH ENCOUNTERS VOL 1 — the latest addition to its SIGNATURE range of sample-based virtual instruments for Native Instruments’ KONTAKT PLAYER platform, this time showcasing the truly trailblazing archive left behind by English composer, ethnomusicologist, and…
ASTON DOWN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UK: specialist British loudspeaker drive unit and complete sound reproduction system manufacturer ATC is proud to launch the SCM45A Pro — an all-new high-performance, three-way compact active loudspeaker — at The NAMM Show 2015, January 22-25 in Anaheim, California… The SCM45A Pro is a completely new…
The Prophet-6 is Dave Smith’s tribute to the poly synth that started it all—the Sequential Prophet-5. But it’s not simply a reissue of a classic. Rather, as Dave puts it, “It’s the result of our effort to build the most awesome-sounding, modern analog poly synth possible.” The Prophet-6 takes the best…