PRESS RELEASE
DR-008 Update to Hit Store Shelves
August 12, 2002
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GMEDIA Music and FXpansion Audio UK Limted have teamed up under the GForce brand to bring you a new version of the DR-008 VSTi & DXi Drum Machine, in a box. The new versionincorporates many new and enhanced features.
New features include:
- MIDI Learn mode for quick MIDI-controller setup.
- New menus on popup windows enabling quick stepping through wave or preset folders, allowing you to step through an entire folder of waves or presets with single clicks.
- Drag-and-drop loop slices from Bitshift's pHATmatik Pro into the DR-008.
- Improved Mix view allows twice as many channels to be seen at one time.
- Editor windows now have minimise, system menu functions and integrated vol/pan/mute/solo controls.
- Flexible patch randomisation system allows new patch generation sound mutation.
- Logic Audio 5 automation system fully supported - automate up to 128 parameters
- DXi version now has sample accurate timing and supports multiple outputs.
- Improved mute group and automation menus.
- More flexible pad naming / note naming, to conform to all major sequencers.
- Now supports all 24-bit and 32-bit WAV files.
- Remembers last folder when opening kits.
- Improved preview options, sample preview integrated in to browser. Right click a sample in the browser to preview it.
- Wave editor support, launch your favourite WAV editor directly from DR-008 samplers.
- Volume output is now hotter by default, more in line with other VSTi.
- Volume is displayed in dB and defaults to 0dB.
- Drag-and-drop between instances of DR-008.
- Improved editor window GUIs, choice of two styles.
- GMEDIA Music's Groove Library: Fifteen Creative Control MIDI/WAV/DR8 kits, incorporating over 200 grooves.
- Full Printed Manual.
For more information, visit their web site at
http://www.fxpansion.com/.
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