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

With the X-Files of the X-Engine, a celeste mutates into a tuning orchestra, a bowed ventilator sinks into the resonances of a piano, a sitar smashes into a clatter of glass, a tonal dance loop arises from a kalimba.
X comes with over 1000 extraordinary ready to play key, FX and loop instruments and an extremely intuitive user interface, enabling you to create trillions of sounds easily.
Galaxy X
X – The new convolution synthesizer by Galaxy
Instruments
X – Based on effect convolution sound synthesis
X – With over 1000 key, FX and loop instruments
X – With over 1000 convolution X-Files
X – Featuring an extremely intuitive user interface
X – Ready to play and ready to create
X – Endless sound possibilities designed by you
Spheres, impacts, rhythms, tonally playable loops, tons of effects, morphed sounds, sequences, cinematic soundscapes, wild ambiences, drones, effect grooves, all from smooth and deep to hard and heavy, and a lot more: for everybody who is after new sounds.

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!

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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

BUY ONE GET ONE FREE: Qualifying products include Hollywood Strings (Diamond and Gold), The Dark Side, Symphonic Choirs (new version with WordBuilder inside PLAY), Sound On Sound 2010 Reader’s Choice Award winner Symphonic Orchestra (Platinum Plus, Platinum and Gold), Pianos (Full and Gold), Stormdrum 2, Goliath, Fab Four, Ministry Of Rock, Silk, Ra, Gypsy, Voices Of Passion and for the fist time ever, Ministry of Rock 2.

HOLLYWOOD SERIES HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Hollywood Brass and Hollywood Strings are the first two increments of EASTWEST’s flagship Hollywood Series – blockbuster, no-compromise virtual instruments designed with major motion picture, television, and video game scoring in mind. Customers can buy either products for 20% off the retail price, or both of them together for 30% off the retail price until December 31, 2011.

With over 60 international awards, EASTWEST offers a wide variety of critically acclaimed sample libraries and virtual instruments, many of which are used in today’s top music, film, television, and videogame productions.

Customers can take advantage of the BUY ONE GET ONE FREE and the HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY SPECIAL offer atwww.soundsonline.com and www.soundsonline-europe.com for European customers and at authorized EastWest dealers.

The special gives musicians and producers access to a comprehensive arsenal of acclaimed software instruments and effects at highly favorable prices, ranging from studio standards such as KONTAKT, GUITAR RIG and REAKTOR to recent releases such as RAZOR, SESSION STRINGS PRO and SOLID MIX SERIES. The offer also comprises the upgrade and update versions of TRAKTOR PRO and TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO, including the “Scratch Upgrade” for the KONTROL S4 DJ system.

The special pricing is available from November 24th to 28th exclusively in the NI Online Shop. During the same time, the iMASCHINE groove creation app is also available at a special price of $1.99 / 1,59 EUR in the Apple App store.

For a complete list of products on sale and their special 50% off price, please visit:
www.native-instruments.com/fivedaysale

Welcome to DESERT WINDS, another virtual instrument from Eduardo Tarilonte, the creator of “Epic World” and “Forest Kingdom”, featuring 21 exotic and oriental soundscapes based on four unique ethnic solo wind instruments. It’s a perfect tool for composers and sound designers to create ambience and music for films, documentaries, video games and new age music.
A wonderful collection of sounds from the sands of time.

Desert Winds is a 2.5 GB library with more than 2000 individual samples. In Desert Winds you will find up to 6 different real legato types per instrument, deep sampling, amazing playability.
For each of the wind instruments you will find a microtuning folder with 16 patches featuring the most important arabic/turkish microtuning tables.

Thanks to the Best Service Engine 2 you will enjoy a beautiful and easy to use interface. Get easy real-time control over all the important performance parameters.
Additionally the library offers 21 beautiful and inspiring bonus soundscapes to create cinematic and evolving desert ambiences. Every soundscape offers 2 to 6 different individual layers which can create indefinite new ambiences by mixing them at will.

Play the real thing like never before – Desert Winds will blow your mind!

INSTRUMENTS LIST

• ARMENIAN DUDUK
• PERSIAN NEY
• TURKISH NEY
• ZOURNA

Best Service Desert Winds 

MSRP   $ 179 

Desert Winds is available for free online testing at www.try-sound.com!

Highlights include a free download of Vir2´s Violence when you buy Acoustic Legends or how about the Ultimate Rock Bundle which delivers all the guitars and drums you could need from Vir2 and Toontrack with a saving of over £260.

Then there´s the ProjectSAM True Strike bundle - both titles for £499 instead of £660 and while we´re on the subject on cinematic libraries, how about Sonokinetic´s Signature Sampling Line bundle for a wealth of unique and inspiring Yemenite, Kurdish and Eurasion vocals.

For all these and more, click here to visit our Christmas deals page