Celemony Software announced that Melodyne 2.5 will be available at the end of June. Melodyne 2.5 will support RTAS format and will feature the "Melody Manager", an easy-to-use audio file manager to create and organize audio files from hard disk or CD. Melodyne 2.5 will support Digidesign RTAS plugin format (in Melodyne Studio version only) and will improve VST and AudioUnit compatibility.
Melodyne 2.5 will be available as a free update for 2.0 version registered users.
Camel Audio have announced the release of version 1.3 of their synthesizer Cameleon 5000. Cameleon 5000 is an additive synthesizer with morphing and resynthesis abilities. Version 1.3 adds a host of new features including the ability to convert bitmaps to noise. Sounds may also be exported as bitmaps, so that they may be edited in a graphics program and then reimported. Cameleon also adds support for microtuning, and has had significant CPU optimization allowing it to be run at lower latencies. It now responds to MIDI bank and program changes. The update also offers a number of sound quality improvements including improved reverb and chorus effects. Other improvements include voice mute buttons, longer LFO cycles, multi-sampling of bitmaps and support for Mac OS 9.
Gmedia Music posted a 1.0.1 release of ImpOscar, the virtual recreation of legendary Oscar synthesiser, released in 1984 and which became a favourite instrument of Ultravox, S-express, Jean Michel Jarre and Underworld. This VSTi plugin version adds new features such as polyphony, improved UserWave editing, enhanced filter modes, synchronised LFO and increased LFO waveforms, delay and chorus effects.
Fresh from Precisionsounds comes Dusty Electric MKII. Formatted for HALion and Kontakt the 24 bit samples are taken from a well tuned 1980 Rhodes Stage Piano Mark II (Seventy Three). Weighing in at a respectable 235MB, each of the 520 Mono Wav files has been looped to maintain realism while not being too resource hungry. For a true representation of the original instrument you get up to 5 velocity layers and 3 velocity release layers.
Prices start a $63 USD for a downloadable version.
Steinberg released Cubase System|2, an integrated music production system, featuring M 2, a 2-channel USB Audio and 16-channel MIDI interface, and Steinberg's sequencer Cubase SE with 5 virtual instruments (The Grand SE, D'Cota SE, Virtual Guitarist EE SE, Groove Agent SE, HALion SE).
Cubase System|2 for Mac OS X is expected end of june for 419 euros.
A new demo to test Storm 3 (soft producer from Grenoble / France). A lite one and an heavier one ((111Mo). The difference comes from the amount of samples and functionalities available. In this new version : ergonomy improvements, piano roll edition, import and export midi files, better mixing functionalities and GM synthesizer included (to read midifile).
Unchanged price (and special price for teachers)
Storm is threatenin'...
Apple just posted a press release to announce that its iTunes Music Store is now available online in United-Kingdom, Germany and France. The ITMS features more than 700.000 songs for euro 0.99€ or 0.79 pounds per song and 9,99€ or 7,79 £ per album.
Features and capabilities in the iTunes Music Store are the same as its U.S. counterpart, with identical Digital Rights Management (DRM) capabilities.
Native Instrument release an Update pour Kontakt 1.5.3 :
With Akai format support improvement, fader reset with easy double click, new possibility to keep the name of EXS Files when you import them, Streaming performance improvements, and some bugs fixed...
Guitare Rig is a complete solution for guitarists. It will be available worldwide in stores starting June 14th (today !!). Guitar Rig is a software (amplifiers, effects...) and a foot controler. Guitar Rig costs 449 USD/euros.
EastWest Sounds is proud to announce the release of Sounds of Polynesia, a compilation of indigenous instruments and native vocals recorded primarily in New Guinea.Instruments included featured: Garamut, Manus, Pate, Pahu Mango, Pahu, Kundu, Tin Can, Bamboo Stomping tubes, Kwakumba, Pan Pipes, Water
Flutes, and more.
Sounds of Polynesia includes a special version of Intakt Sampler and costs USD 219.
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MPCsounds.com announces the debut of "Orchestral Percussion", a new sound library for the Akai MPC1000/2000/XL/3000/LE/4000 drum machines.
A new demo to test Storm 3 (soft producer from Grenoble / France). A lite one and an heavier one ((111Mo). The difference comes from the amount of samples and functionalities available. In this new version : ergonomy improvements, piano roll edition, import and export midi files, better mixing functionalities and GM synthesizer included (to read midifile).
Apple just posted a press release to announce that its iTunes Music Store is now available online in United-Kingdom, Germany and France. The ITMS features more than 700.000 songs for euro 0.99€ or 0.79 pounds per song and 9,99€ or 7,79 £ per album.
Native Instrument release an Update pour Kontakt 1.5.3 :
