Best Service has introduced Voyager Drums, TITAN 2, Klanghaus 2, ERA II and Emotional Cello, 5 new libraries
Best Service has introduced Voyager Drums, TITAN 2, Klanghaus 2, ERA II and Emotional Cello, 5 new libraries announced at NAMM.
Voyager Drums — Power-Drums by the maker of “Artist-Drums”.
Voyager Drums brings you two Power Drum Kits, recorded and edited by the maker of “Artist-Drums” and “Artist Grooves”.
The punchy and powerful sound is perfect for your Pop, Rock, Jazz and Funk productions. 360 MIDI Grooves for instant use are included.
TITAN 2 — the biggest and most extensive Synthesizer Sound Collection of all times!
24GB in size (78GB uncompressed) 10.000 multi samples, 200.000 single samples cover 244 of the greates classic analog and digital synths, workstations and the biggest modular systems as well as every recent trendy software synthesizer on the market.
Key focus was to preserve the unique sound character of the originals and to additianally give you the possibility to model completely new soundscapes never heard before.
TITAN 2 as well as the upgrade from TITAN (1) will be available from end of February 2015.
Klanghaus 2 — Collection of unique instruments, Grooves and Loops
With your KLANGHAUS 2 virtual instrument you have access to a collection of unique instruments, invented and constructed by Ferdinand Foersch.
We recorded these instruments with best care and attention and then spent hundreds of hours to map them according to Ferdinand Foersch´s ideas and visions.The result is a new instrument with lots of surprising sounds, divided in different categories. All rhythmical sequences are midi based and therefore adjust seamlessly to your sequencers speed. Also the midi input for the rhythmical sequences is quantized to “the next beat” for additional timing accuracy.
Klanghaus 2 will be available mid February 2015. An upgrade for users of Klanghaus (1) will be available at 19 EUR. All customers who have registered Klanghaus 1 from January 10th 2015 will receive the upgrade for free.
ERA II – Medieval Legends — Huge Set of historical instruments
ERA II is a unique sample library featuring a huge set of historical instruments. All you have been waiting for your Medieval, Renaissance or Fantasy musical producti on in one virtual instrument.
Eduardo Tarilontes ERA II will follow the successful path of its predecessor and give you the best Medieval Instruments available in a virtual environment. With now more than 70 Instruments (25 new ones), more soundscapes, singers and a greatly enhanced user interface, this library is a must have, not only for all film and game composers.
Plucked, wind, reed, bowed, keyed and percussion multi sampled instruments, voices and an inspiring collecti on of magical soundscapes will push your music to the next level.
ERA II will be released by the end of March 2015. An Upgrade for users of Era will be available.
Emotional Cello — Virtual Cello for classic and cinematic use
Emotional Cello the new Kontakt Player instrument by Harmonic Subtones brings you a powerful and touching sound, which was recorded in a musical context to capture the natural bowing and expressive dynamics of a real player.
Emotional Cello has been designed to be applicable for classical settings as well as contemporary musical styles.
Intelligent scripting and 16 different articulations within the master patch make this true-legato-instrument extraordinary versatile. Two additional master patches cover Sul Ponticello and Harmonic articulations.
Emotional Cello also includes rather unusual articulations like sul ponticello – legato, harmonics – legato, morbid sustain, riccochet or the Bach bow. A special effect section with a Cello body percussion and some weird effects make this instrument complete.
Emotional Cello will be released mid March 2015.
NAMM 2015 – Sequential Prophet-6
Future Music have teamed up with Andertons Music for NAMM 2015. Here they check out the new Prophet-6 analogue polysynth from Dave Smith, back under his original Sequential brand name.
http://blog.andertons.co.uk/keyboards…
CREDITS
Video Producer & Presenter: Chris Barker
Video Editor and Videographer: Will Seelig
NAMM 2015 – Novation Launchpad Pro
Future Music have teamed up with Andertons Music for NAMM 2015. Here they check out the new feature-packed Novation Launchpad Pro
http://blog.andertons.co.uk/recording…
CREDITS
Video Producer & Presenter: Chris Barker
Video Editor and Videographer: Will Seelig
Roland – JD-Xi Synth NAMM 2015
Roland talk us through the new JD-Xi synthesizer, which has both analogue and digital oscillators, as well as an integrated sequencer.
Koma Announces their new Quad Sequencer
Roland JD-Xa Flagship Hybrid Analog Synthesizer
The Roland JD-Xa is not being officially introduced, because it is still under development. But they expect to give the new synth its official introduction at Musikmesse 2015.
The JD-Xa is described as a ‘flagship’ keyboard in the JD-X line – offering:
- a knob-filled interface & full size keys
- 4 independent analog monophonic voices, each with fairly deep synthesis capabilities, that can also be used as a four-voice polysynth;
- 4 additional synth voices, based on Roland’s SuperNatural technology;
- 8 channels of step sequencing
Official details are to be announced.
NAMM 2015: Rob Papen Raw
Rop Papen shows off their Raw software at the NAMM Show 2015.
NAMM 2015: Elektron Overbridge Progess
NAMM 2015: Elektron Ovwerbridge Progess Audio routing and a sneak of the UI for the editor
Elektron’s Overbridge was announced last year, its a technology that allows Elektron instruments – Analog Four, Analog Rytm and Analog Keys to feed their audio and MIDI over USB and into a host plugin that will run inside the host DAW and route discrete inputs and outputs.
Addtionally MIDI can be routed and more interestingly given the complexity of these instruments, an editor to access the voice and setup parameters for each instrument – this would certainly make the editing process more pleasurable – one of my criticisms was that the screen is just too small to see enough detail for serious editing and my tired eyes.
Cenk (aka Dataline) gives us the headsup on where the Overbridge technology is, the seamless integration of audio streams in and out of the DAW is impressive.
Arturia Audio Fuse – NAMM 2015
With a pair of trademarked DiscretePRO mic preamps, high-quality 24-bit AD/DA conversion, sample rates up to 192kHz and accurate clocking, the AudioFuse is an intriguing proposition.
When it comes to connectivity, the AudioFuse is well equipped and has been designed with musicians in mind. As such, it has two pairs of speaker outs, a pair of headphone outputs, each with 1/4-inch and 3.5mm sockets, and USB ports for connecting or powering other devices. On top of that, there’s ADAT connectivity, MIDI, phono, S/PDIF, Word Clock, XLR/ balanced 1/4-inch combo connections.
The AudioFuse could easily form the centre of a small studio, providing a talkback function for communicating with recording talent, and insert points for adding line-level devices (EQ and compression for instance) between the preamps and the converters. Direct monitoring is also possible as well, to avoid the timing issues associated with recording latency.
Arturia’s new audio interface is also road-ready with a sturdy aluminium chassis, and an accompanying box to protect it from knocks during transport and also to stop undesirables from messing with your settings! It is set to retail for around $549 and should become available in the Summer.
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NAMM 2015: Moog Sub 37 Firmware
Amos Gaynes takes us through the new features
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