We have big news today, you might have seen it on the website already, but all of our products are now in UVI format only and got some very important updates. This means that we now offer Virtual Instruments, all of the libraries come with their own player that support advanced scripts. The UVI Workstation is the equivalent of the MachFive 3 player and is provided for free with every purchase. It works as a VST, AU, RTAS in both 32 and 64 bits and on windows and Mac. Given the little problems we got with megaupload like websites, we now also protect our libraries with the iLok protection. Some people won’t like it, but we really had no choice.

New Instruments 

We also released the instruments bundled with MachFive 3. Telematic, Mark79, The Upright, JBass, StarDrums,  and Percussiv.

A world-class solo violin for the most demanding virtual orchestrations 

Hollywood, CA (February 2, 2012) – EASTWEST, the industry leader in virtual software instruments, continues their success in producing the most realistic and critically acclaimed virtual orchestral instruments with the release of QUANTUM LEAP SOLO VIOLIN.

Produced by Nick Phoenix, Quantum Leap Solo Violin is a virtuoso solo violin recorded at Remote Control Productions, a film score facility in Santa Monica, California run by veteran film composer Hans Zimmer and home to the scores of many of today’s top films.

Quantum Leap Solo Violin includes 5 passes of true legatos sampled intervals, Legato soft, legato forte, expressive legato, portamento and fast legato/ trill/ run.

Quantum Leap Solo Violin features round robin up and down bowing on most articulations and is the first violin virtual instrument that can handle very fast playing and live trill playing with ease.  All of the basic articulations were sampled as well as various expressive articulations, vibrato styles, and non vibrato.

Quantum Leap Solo Violin has a sound and character ideally suited for film and classical work.

Quantum Leap Solo Violin includes the latest version of EastWest’s PLAY software featuring 2 new solo violin reverb impulses designed to make Quantum Leap Solo Violin blend well with other EastWest/Quantum Leap collections.

EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP Solo Violin is now available exclusively as a digital download for $99.00 USD from http://www.soundsonline.com/QL-Solo-Violin for USA and the World excluding Europe, andhttp://www.soundsonline-europe.com/QL-Solo-Violin for Europe.

For use with the full KONTAKT 5 version and the free KONTAKT 5 PLAYER, STUDIO DRUMMER makes extensive use of the advanced features of the new KONTAKT generation to provide all necessary components for first-class studio drums productions. By combining premium sampled drum kits and comprehensive studio-grade mixing environment with a wide assortment of professional grooves, the instrument provides a highly versatile and easy-to-use ‘virtual drummer’ that delivers authentic and fast results for pop, rock, metal, jazz and related music styles.

This limited-time special offer prices STUDIO DRUMMER at $84.50 / 74,50 EUR until the end of March, 2012. The offer is available both at authorized and participating retailers and the NI Online Shop, while stock lasts.

Additional information on STUDIO DRUMMER is available at
www.native-instruments.com/studiodrummer

Nitron cannot be compared to other sample based libraries, which give you very limited or no acces at all to editing and tweaking your sounds. Nitron is like a real synthesizer, using high end source samples as oscilators. If you own the full Kontakt 4 version, you can use the countless possibilities of this sophisticated sampler to tweak your sounds, gving you access to an almost infinite number of soundcreations for any music style imaginable. Tweaking of course is also possible with the included Kontakt Player, so don’t wait to give it a try!

Top features included are low pass filters, high pass, band pass, vowel and phaser filters. The user can choose between poly and mono mode as well as an authentic legato mode. A unison mode plus a global saturator make your sounds as fat and rich as possible. Via the mod wheel you can access useful parameter assignments for all patches like additional high pass filters, tremolo or vibrato giving this must have package a finishing touch.

Most patches use effects like Chorus, Flanger, Delay and Convolution Reverb. In the KONTAKT Player version you need to turn on the FX button to use this effects. In the full KONTAKT version, the effects can be edited or replaced with other effects you like.

This synthesizer/library has been produced by the Swiss producer & sounddesigner Urban Riedo -Tunebeast

http://www.bestservice.de/detail1.asp/best_service/nitron/en

BE A VOICE IN THE CROWD AND WIN A $2000 ARRAY MBIRA

We are going to build a unique sampler instrument  – a choir / vocal ensemble made with hundreds of voices from all around the world.

We need a a minimum of 500 notes to layer in the instrument, so please help us if you can.

Everybody that sends us a recorded note will receive the CrowdChoir instrument free, in Kontakt /EXS & Ableton Live format.

The project will run for 2 months, until March 31st 2012

http://www.soniccouture.com/en/crowdchoir/

The sale runs from 16th December to 15th January 2012
and includes the entire Wave Alchemy catalogue.

Some of the great deals on offer include:

50% off Syncussion Drums now £9.95 ($15.40)

33% off Tech House & Minimal now £26.95 ($41.78)

25% off Tribal & Tech House now £20.95 ($32.48)

25% off Deep Tech & Progressive now £29.95 ($46.43)

25% off Drum Tools 01 now £29.95 ($46.43)

25% off SFX01 now £33.95 ($52.63)

This is just a glimpse at what is on offer so be sure to grab yourself a bargain over at
Wave Alchemy before the plug is pulled on the winter sale!

“We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”

Dan Byers & Steve Heath – Wave Alchemy

The whole spectrum of Hammond playing techniques is available:
From single lines to shearing styles, from drawbar changing loops to varied Leslie speaker‘s speed and much more.
19 Tonewheel-kits offer you a great opportunity to get inspired by lots of phrases, licks and harmonies.

For this recording, a Hammond Organ C3 and its Leslie 147 was microphoned with 3 Neumann Mics (Treble Rotator 2 Mics , Woofer Rotator 1 Mic) using RME Micstasy Hi End A/D converter.

The sound library comes along with the brand new Elastik 2 loop player for realtime timestretching and pitchshifting, among other great features.

PLEASE NOTE: The drumloops used in the demosongs are not included in this library.

“Funky Tonewheels” was produced by Uwe Kinast and Hakan Türközü who has also played the organ for this library. Both achieve high quality libraries with their knowledge of musicproduction and recordings.

http://www.ueberschall.com

Genre: Funky Organ
Content: 1 GB, 19 Organ Kits, 537 Licks
Elastik Soundbank for Mac/PC/AU/VST/RTAS/StandAlone
Elastik Player included – no sampler required!

Drop any of our 100% royalty free loops in those stockings or keep all these great sounds and samples to yourself!  Simply add any two items marked “Buy 1 – Get 1 Free” to your cart and magically get the lowest priced product for FREE!

There is no better time to stock up on the same loops and sample packs used by the likes of Skrillex, Beyonce, Nicole Scherzinger and Chris Brown as well as Grammy nominated producers and BAFTA award winning engineers.

Get ready to add twice as much magic to your mixes with this special holiday offer which is available all month long and get all the sounds you need to make 2012 simply magical!

Prime Loops packs are compatible with the following formats: .WAV, Ableton Live Pack, Garageband, FL Studio, Motu Mach Five, Reason Refill and more!

Visit Primeloops.com

Get ready for the Ultimate Sample Big Box, with ten of Sample Magic’s finest DVD collections, packing in 10,000+ samples and over 20GB worth of 24-bit loops and one-shots for a recession-busting £100 (plus P&P).

Spanning genres from house and techno to prog, chillout, soundtrack, breaks and more, this is the producer’s ultimate Christmas sound-injection with a saving of over £200.

Titles bundled include:
- Minimal & Tech-House
- Progressive House
- Sunrise Sessions
- Minimal Techno
- Soundtrack & Chill
- Funky House Grooves 2
- Deep Tech-House
- Around The World In    80 Raves
- Tech-Funk Breaks, and
- Tribal Tech-House.

Complete DVD bundle costs £100 plus P&P (priority Fedex shipping worldwide).
Order at www.samplemagic.com

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And it doesn’t stop there…

Fanfare not only boasts the finest traditional marching brass samples available, but extends the library’s sonic reach via Sample Logic’s signature “blurring the line between music and sound design” programming techniques. Starting with the traditional brass recordings, an entire library of morphed “cinematic” multi-sampled instruments was created, putting not only world-class marching brass at your fingertips, but also an inspiring array of melodics, pads, leads, stingers, impacts, transitions, atmospheres, and articulated rhythms–all organized into easily accessible, production-ready presets.

The INSTRUMENTS & MULTIS

• A complete collection of traditional marching brass instruments (trumpets, mellophones, euphoniums, tubas, and trombones) recorded with multiple round robins, multiple dynamics, and up to five microphone placements
• Scoring Stage: Individual instruments and sectionals
• Stadium: Large sections and full ensemble
• A complete collection of evocative morphed cinematic instruments and rhythms
• Atmospheric/ambient soundscapes and stinger construction kits
• Arpeggiator/Arpeggigater rhythmic instruments
• Swipes, scrapes, impacts, and reverse transitional effects

• Performance-ready multis (playable interactive preset templates made from multiple instruments)

The FX

Fanfare offers unprecedented control over sound and performance, thanks to Sample Logic’s custom-designed Kontakt Player interface, one of the most advanced Kontakt user interfaces to date. Building on the exclusive “multi-core effects sequencer” first introduced in their Cinematic Guitars collection, Sample Logic puts complete, customizable user control right at your fingertips, with sequencers, LFOs, programmable arpeggiation, a unique Rhythmic Articulator, and a fully integrated multi-microphone mixer. Fanfare boasts over 40 screens of powerful, intuitive user interface controls!

Sample the future: The Arpeggigater

We are proud to introduce a powerful addition to Fanfare… The Arpeggigater

The Arpeggigater allows users to design custom gate sequencer patterns with effects simultaneously.  This extremely powerful addition allows for infinite sound-sculpting results.

Swirling the space: The Spinner

All of Fanfare’s multi-mic instruments include a sound-swirling spinner effect.  This effect allows users to not only change the listeners perspective around the concert hall (Left to Right and Close to Far), but also allows you to automate the listening position swirling the sound with your own custom patterns.

Technical Specifications

• Over 1200 Instruments and multis recorded and processed at 88.2k/24-bit, delivered at 44.1k/24-bit.
• 30GB sample library (uncompressed)
• 20GB via Kontakt’s lossless sample storage compression
• Available in both boxed and direct download formats
• Standalone, VST, AU, DXi, or RTAS

Minimum System Requirements

• Kontakt Player Free 4 or higher (also runs in the retail version of Kontakt)
• Mac: OS X 10.6 (latest update), 10.7, Intel Core Duo, 2 GB RAM (Kontakt Player 4 and higher)
• Mac: PPC (Kontakt 4) and Intel (Kontakt player 4 and higher) Compatible
• PC: Windows 7 (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit, Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64, 2GB RAM
• 20GB of disk space for Fanfare library
• 1GB of disk space for Kontakt/Kontakt Player

 Now available!

Fanfare MSRP: $399.99

Fanfare Website: http://www.samplelogic.com/products/fanfare