News - Software - October 2009

Forty-one new collections of multitrack & stereo ACIDized drum loops performed by Ron Wikso (Foreigner, David Lee Roth, more) crafted to fit perfectly into songs that need the feel of a real pro drummer.

The Temple of Breaks sample pack is suited to styles such as Drumfunk, Darkstep, Dubstep, Hardstep, Jump-Up, Liquid Funk, Sambass, Techstep, Neurofunk, Drill n Bass, Breakcore.

All the MoReVoX's Drums Libraries (Elektromorph I & II , Drivedrums, Pocketslam01 Acoustic) have been optimized for iGOG and arranged in single Kits.

The SDX™ gives everyone from top producers down, access to the cream of custom and vintage drums.

RiffBook is a computer "notebook" for music where riffs can be quickly recorded in the form of audio, video, music notation, tablature, and text notes.

Epic new virtual instrument dedicated to acoustic, electric and synth basses features integration with Omnisphere.

Voice Code by 9 Soundware is a collection of presets for the EVOC 20 vocoder within Apple Logic Pro.

Completing the range of 8 leading loop-remixing applications, these two new style-based apps allow you to create and share non-stop Electro and D'n'B tracks for DJing, remixing, multimedia, and movie soundtrack compositions on the go, in real time, just like a professional DJ or music producer.

It includes 22 big construction kits plus over 140 extra loops and licks featuring electric and acoustic guitars, drums, bass, pedal steel, fiddle, mandolin, and more.

Produced by star macProVideo.com trainer Bill Burgess, this new, 5-hour tutorial program provides a comprehensive set of lessons that show you how to use MainStage 2 as a live performance tool.

EpiK DrumS - A Ken Scott Collection is a massive virtual instrument/plug-in for drum kits and grooves with the authentic sound and feel of classic rock records, featuring five of the world's best drummers recorded by legendary producer/engineer Ken Scott.

A collection of 27 multi-track, hard hitting construction loop sets in the style of Dr Dre, 50 Cent, and Eminem.

The mpressor plugin is the as close as it can get emulation of elysia's creative compressor

Pianoteq Pro is the ultimate tool for sound shaping and instrument creation, offering note per note adjustment for no less than 22 physical parameters.

This virtual instrument is based on a simple zither, a hollow-bodied string instrument common throughout all of Europe and Asia, and features a smooth, dark tone, with a clean biting attack and long, natural decay.

The Scarlett Plug-in Suite features a visually stunning GUI with professional dynamics processing, EQ, and reverb.

R&B Progressions and Dubhop Scores brings you a selection of luscious instrumental loops in many RnB styles.

Nudist Colony represents firebird at it's most basic – only the OSC and AMP ENV sections were used to create the sounds.

This ambitious DVD includes 9 hours of video instruction and was produced to help develop and refine Finale skills in teachers, students, composers, orchestrators and other musicians who use Finale software.

Little Guitar is a sort of brasilian guitar, the cavaquinho, it sounds also like a banjo or a ukulele.

iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner allows you to extract audio from your MOV, WMA, and AVI format video files so you can enhance and cleanup your video soundtracks or dialogue with ease.

The Freestyle 2 Live Pack contains instrument, MIDI, and effect racks, live clips, and samples for Ableton Live.

The SCARBEE MM-BASS is a new software instrument that provides an authentic rendition of the distinctive Musicman Sterling electric bass.

Experimental Box is a wonderful assortment of highly playable rhythms, ambiences, and instruments which are perfect for writing music in an experimental and minimalist way.

In the Square Wave Drums Collection, Samplecraze decided to process drum samples beyond the ceiling whilst maintaining their sonic integrity.

Drum Machines 01 is a must have for anyone wanting to expand their drum-hit library with an authentic array of warm analogue drum sounds.

The Bhangra Loops Sample Pack is a solid library of upfront Bhangra Loops and drums featuring Tumbi, Dhol, Tabla, and Thad.

MIJOY PRO is a VSTi plug-in for Windows that allows you to use a joystick or gamepad as a MIDI controller.

Syntheway Virtual Sitar is a VST instrument designed to emulate the Indian Sitar.

This new operating system software expands the number of effects from 90 to 113, and expands the number of factory presets from 390 to over 500.

This new drum and bass pack delivers a fresh set of authentic DnB elements that will rock in any soft sampler or sequencer.

Ring by 9 Soundware is a collection of presets for the RingShifter ring modulator/frequency shifter within Apple Logic Pro.

macProVideo.com has released version 2 of it's popular iPhone & iPod Touch software tutorial-video player, N.E.D.i (NonLinear Educating Device for iPhone), which includes a comprehensive keyword search feature that let's you type in text terms to search macProVideo.com's complete Online Tutorial Library

Latest software-plus-songbook editions now available in popular series created in cooperation with Apple.

Netherworld features all new digitally created sounds that inhabit just the dark place between musical sounds and sound effects.

'Tech House' loops library has over 230 of the freshest Tech & minimal house sounds.

This royalty-free collection includes 10 modern urban construction kits with 176 loops and 50 drum hits for over 1.37GB of multiformat material.

This free downloadable kit for all Reason 4 users is one stellar-sounding 24-bit drum kit from the Ocean Way® Drums library; a refill with a stereo Ocean Way® Drum Kit 10 "Medium Ambience Mix" Kit for the NNXT and ReDrum.

SONIVOX, a premier provider of virtual instrument technology rolls out new virtual sampler plug-in for MAC & PC designed for hip-hop production.

This drum machine app for iPhone has true velocity sensitive pads which accurately measures how hard the pads are hit and dynamically responds.

The Addictive Drums 1.5 Adrenaline Update features full E-Drums Support, Beat Transformer, GM Support, New Beats, New Presets and more.

The Series Two Collection includes all four Beatserv Series Two packs at a discounted price.

3 New Libraries Now Available in Roland SH 201 Editor and MIDI Formats.

Based on the best-selling Baby Taylor guitar, the TSBT is ideal for both promising players and accomplished pickers.

EPIC FX is a sample library that contains nearly 500 sound effects designed for adding impact to your music productions, trailers, cinema and TV post production.

Zero is a toolbox for electronic music, made up by 150+150 bass and lead sounds.

These multitrack drum collections are great for Rock, Pop, Country, and more.

Featuring a massive collection of varied percussion samples, World Impact spans the globe featuring percussion instruments from large to small, west to east, north to south, and traditional to rare.

The Insomnium library is designed with the intention of evoking the moments just before one falls asleep, when surrounding sounds turn into dreams.

This update includes 10 fixes and makes it so that Ultra Analog VA-1 works with Cubase 5 64-bit VST Bridge and Sonar 64-bit BitBridge.

Big Fish Audio will serve as a worldwide distributor of Cinesample libraries.

Hal Leonard Corporation has released a PVG songbook and nearly two dozen choral octavos featuring the music from Glee, the refreshing new Fox comedy-drama that's taken the TV season by storm.

'Symphonic Hip Hop 2' merges powerful symphonic arrangements and orchestrations with block busting hip hop rhythmatics and includes 16 construction kits of astonishing clarity and depth.

Art of sounds hyperactive mix sound design for the new music paradigm.

In this Level 3 DVD, ASK digs into the more advanced features of Pro Tools 8 such as sharing sessions with other DAWs, correcting audio at the sample level, and mixing in surround.

Circuit Bent Sounds volume 2 is another cool collection of bastardised electronics, twisted circuits, rewired technology and warped audio.

Vol.2 features longer sample lengths and more instrumentation of live guitars, bass, rhodes, organs, pianos, vibraphone, bells, string ensembles, and many more classic instruments for hip-hop music makers.

TimeStretch makes it easier to learn or practice any music at any speed without changing the pitch.

The free download contains 7 KONTAKT patches — 1 patch is dry for amp simulators and 6 patches are amped with the KONTAKT EFX processor to emulate popular guitarist sounds.

The PCM Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle provides seven legendary Lexicon reverb algorithms that are designed to deliver the highest level of sonic quality and function, and offer all the flexibility of a native plug-in.

The PCM92 utilizes the latest DSP technology and the finest collection of classic Lexicon algorithms to offer the ultimate processor for live and studio applications.

Abstrakt Tech Noises is a three part collection of mind blowing abstract and tech noises which suit a multitude of music styles.

The Junglefish is a handmade analog synthesizer with 5 oscillators, a multimodefilter, envelope, LFO, and PWM made for Ableton Live.

Dirty Electro Bass Loops concentrates solely on the low frequencies and contains 100 up to the minute Bass Loops for producers of Electro, Tech, Minimal, Breaks and other electronic styles.

Producer Loops and Chimp Spanner return for the final installment in the Ambient Metal Construction series, and what a way to conclude a series!

'Hip Hop Construction King 2' is the sequel to FatLoud's bestselling 'Hip Hop Construction King' sample pack.

New computer recording studios in a box for the holidays.

This new instrument & voice processing software from BIAS delivers pro-quality pitch correction & popular effects at a competitive price.

Galactic Atmosphere features 36 WAV files from 40 seconds to 2 minutes long, and ranging from 60 to 100BPM, created for film scoring projects in the themes of space, mystery, psychedelic, science, and other enigmatic themes.

Apple Certified Logic Pro Eli Krantzberg starts from the beginning, explaining all the features and functions of FlexTime and then moves onto showing you how to use it on the most common instruments.

The new Alloy plug-in introduces a unique take on six essential mixing tools.

Izotope implements their highly regarded IRC limiter for new pro audio plug-in line.

Double Bass Mania IV unleashes a powerful collection of groove and power metal drum loops and brings live head-pounding grooves to multiple genres of metal songwriting.

Optional solid state drive offers dramatic performance improvement.

Pop Rock Guitars is a vast resource of six-string sounds that captures the energy and vibe of today's chart-topping hits.

Electronic music for everybody – on the go.

BFD Cocktail is a meticulous recording of a Yamaha Hipgig portable drumkit.

Drumagog 5 represents more than two years of design and development.

Version 2 adds four meticulously sampled raw oscillator settings from the original Moog Source, new combinator patches, new backdrops and more…

The Xpansion One Collection soundware package delivers 128 pro-level patches.

The RTW version 6.0 software enhances the devices' well-known functionality with features including an ITU BS.1770-compliant loudness meter and a quasi-DIN (quasi-analog) bargraph for digital PPM measurements.

Fuel #1 is a collection of powerful fat stacks with lead, pads, poly synths and percussives. The FM Heritage expansion is a comprehensive collection of classic FM sounds taken from rare and legendary synthesizers. The Traumstadt features wide horizon soundscapes, technoid and industrial drum- and percussion loops, reverse stinger effects, and long evolving sonic scenes.

"Soundation Studio" is a web based sequencer that enables you to make music, ringtones and audio clips directly from the internet without downloading any software.

Giving modern producers genuine Neve® analog sound on Mac or PC

This move will ensure the continuation and expansion of impeccable drum library products for both Discrete Drums and Sonoma Wire Works customers.

Sonnox Restore is a suite of three innovative plug-ins: Oxford DeBuzzer, Oxford DeClicker and Oxford DeNoiser, designed to accurately restore impaired audio recordings.

Izotope gets closer to its customer while going green.

This collection of hardcore dance samples will take you on a journey from the pure Hardcore scene and then touch on the break beat and trance influences of the current Hardcore elite's sound

Ampeg and Blackheart amps are pleased to announce they will be exhibiting at this year's show with a host of cool new products and exciting gear on display.

Ultra-small transmitters the latest addition to company's "Super Mini" product line

The heart of the vocal designer plugin KLON is a harmonic pitch shifter for natural pitch and formant manipulation of vocal sounds in realtime.

Bridge-IT IP is a low cost, high performance stereo IP codec, for main or backup Studio-to-Transmitter Links, audio distribution and simple remote broadcast links.

The theme and purpose of Clack was to capture as much sharp, bright, tonal wooden impact percussion as our hearts could desire.

"Verge" is a set of 5 soundbanks (100 presets each) with carefully designed patches for ambient, trance, electro and techno enthusiasts.

Harmony EFX is a streamlined version of the popular Harmony Engine EVO to be the quickest, easiest, most affordable tool for creating realistic vocal harmony.

This new audio plug-in, Alloy, combines six essential sound-shaping tools into one integrated interface, and is designed for any audio mixing application from professional recording and post-production studios to the home studio.

Real Jazz is the definitive Jazz MIDI groove collection featuring both stick and brush grooves.

SYN ImpOSCar Sounds V1 is a collection of 24 highly original sounds for GForce ImpOSCar synthesizer.

Bring the magic of the Middle East to your desktop with these enchanting and mysterious Arabian breaks.

Action starts at 12 noon on Thursday, October 29 and runs until after midnight on October 31.

SongManager for Bento is a personal database solution built on the Bento platform, from FileMaker, Inc.

VOX Amplication's JamVOX Version 1.5 has several free enhancements including easy Edit Control, Hi-Def Reverb and Advanced Guitar XTracktion capabilities.

Blue Cat's Remote Control 2.2a set of plug-ins for Windows or Mac in VST, Audio Unit, and DirectX formats which let you control and monitor in real time several MIDI controllable plug-ins or hardware devices from a single customizable user interface.

Vienna Symphonic Library's new mixing host replaces Vienna Ensemble 3, and allows you to integrate your VSTi/AU virtual instruments and effect plug-ins, 64-bit and 32-bit versions, into your setup, whether you're working on one computer or on cross-platform networks.

Sample Logic's award-winning team presents a powerful collection of creatively new and inventive organic instruments.

Bad weather results in new sample packs at Splurgo Audio.

PanMan is an advanced auto-panner with groove control that takes features a complete range of panning modes to recreate classic analog panners.

Decapitator creates that highly sought after analog sound from subtle harmonic changes to extreme driven distortion found in vintage and modern classics from Neve, API, Ampex, EMI, and Thermionic Culture, and more.

The PULSE-TEC EQs combines the legendary Pultec Mid-Range Equalizer MEQ-5 and the unescapable Pultec Program Equalizer EQP-1A into a single, high-quality plug-in.

PPMulator+ 2.11 is a cross-platform plug-in meter for digital audio workstations, which exactly mimics the look and feel of a professional broadcast Peak Program Meter (PPM).

Utilizing the same "Transwave" concept as Ensoniq's unique Fizmo synthesizer, Waveframe contains a collection of pre-programmed patches, over 30 waveform devices and over 1700 "frame" samples,.

ABSYNTH 5 marks a new generation of the acclaimed semi-modular software synthesizer that is renowned for its unique evolving sounds and textures.

Ableton and Cycling '74 are pleased to announce a special workshop taking place on October 9th at 12:00 pm at the AES Show 2009 in New York City.

Launchpad is a compact controller unlike any other, which is designed to give electronic music makers of today the most interactive experience possible in Ableton Live.

Featuring 100 new PROGRAM's, the APACHE sound set delivers an audio injection that will shine your PC3 in a whole new light.

Softube is shipping the Tube-Tech CL 1B for native VST, AU, and RTAS.

IT'S BAKELITE! is a new soundset for the ReFX PlastiCZ now available for purchase in the Plughugger Web-shop.