Published on August 25th, 2009.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is pleased to announce an update to its Cubase Essential Personal Music Production System to version 5. Offering a streamlined feature set that offers newcomers to Cubase a comprehensive set of composing, recording, editing, and mixing capabilities, the new version includes a range of functions from its extremely successful sibling, Cubase [...]

Published on August 25th, 2009.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Native Instruments today introduced SCARBEE PRE-BASS, a new software instrument that provides a meticulous, highly musical rendition of the iconic Fender Precision bass. PRE-BASS is derived from the acclaimed Scarbee Blue Bass library, and the first release in the recently established development partnership between sampling expert Thomas Hansen Skarbye and Native Instruments.
Powered by the industry-leading [...]

Published on August 21st, 2009.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Press release from Spinner Audio:
Spinner Audio Releases “Box Store Kit”, 550 sampler ready grooves in REX,WAV,SF2,Akai(S5000/6000) format
Spinner LLC proudly announces the release of Box Store Kit. 550 drum loops in 4 different formats Recorded in a huge vacant warehouse, these beats are edgy, full and take loops into a new dimension with a wide open [...]

Published on August 18th, 2009.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Press release Simplosive: After four highly successful percussive sample packs we are entering round five with “Electro Bass”, a huge collection of fat and dirty one-shot bass tone samples.
“Electro Bass” includes 300 sub-shaking one-shot bass sounds including static basses, bass stabs, bass chords and bass sweeps. All recorded in pristine 24 bit and in key [...]

Published on August 10th, 2009.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Voxengo Crunchessor version 2.5 is now available for download.  Voxengo Crunchessor is a general-purpose track compressor for professional audio production applications.  It is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats, for Mac OS X and Windows computers.
Version 2.5 change log:
* “Radial” knob mode can be now disabled completely.
* “Off-Line Render” indication added.
* Level metering parameters [...]

Published on August 7th, 2009.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Piano Trilogy is a new unique piano collection that includes three piano instruments based on sampling, synthesis, and physical modeling techniques. Vintage Piano is based on an amazing bechstein grand piano from 1906, Broken Piano brings tasteful dark upright piano and various broken piano sounds, while Pianoforte revives the old ancestor of the piano with [...]

Published on August 3rd, 2009.
Author: Darren McEntee
Category: Industry News.

Paudioware has announced the release of PSP oldTimer, a new vintage-style compressor designed for track and program compression and limiting. PSPaudioware’s goal in developing this plug-in was to provide a simple compressor that offers an exceptionally musical sound while requiring a minimum of tweaking.
This plug-in is not based on any specific hardware, rather it is [...]