More on the Arturia Oberheim SEM V – Overview and demo
Sean Weitzman from Arturia goes over the Oberheim SEM V soft-synth, which delivers the sound and the feel of the original Oberheim SEM Synthesizer Expansion Module. It’s a dual-oscillator synth, and adds new features that weren’t present on the original Oberheim unit, like a sub oscillator and a noise generator. SEM V includes many of Arturia’s special touches, such as polyphony and 8-voice multitimbrality, effects, extensive modulation capabilities and much more. Enjoy the overview, then learn all about the SEM V right here: http://bit.ly/sw_SEMV
UVI Emulation II Demo – Re-creating the 1980s
Audio demo of the new Emulation II VST, providing 80’s sounds with real time control and effects. Features many sounds from the original Emulator II sampler. Sounds were recorded and carefully selected from the authentic restored instrument, with the very best analog and digital gear, suiting UVI quality standard. This process allows preserving the original sounds’ lo-fi charm.
Besides, hundreds of sounds and instruments among the best are included: drums, bass, bells, choir-voices, fretted instruments, FXs, keyboards, mallets, percussion, synths, strings, orchestral hits and a lot more.
A simple, yet complete, user interface reproduces the looks and feeling of the most famous and essential machine from the eighties. With 250+ best sounds and primary editing tools, Emulation II enables you to create authentic spin-offs with infinite options of sounds and tones.
Full info at:
http://www.uvisoundsource.com/product_info.php?currency=EUR&products_id=66
More including audio track demo’s here:
http://blog.uvi.net/sounds-instruments/emulation-ii-launch-new/
Rob Papen shows off the Blade synthesizer
The latest synth from extreme sound mangler Rob Papen is Blade – an additive synthesis engine (around 100 partials) with a user friendly interface based around an XY interface and some cunning gesture based automation for interesting modulation and tonal variation.
Coming soon
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Oldschool Tools for MonoPoly
http://youtu.be/g4qnJMYiamw
Xenos Soundworks has announced Oldschool Tools, a new soundset for the MonoPoly software synthesizer by Korg. Oldschool Tools contains 100 vintage style patches for Korg MonoPoly, suitable for everything from retro funk, electro, new wave and more. The soundset ships to you in mp4bank, FXB and mp4prog formats.
Oldschool Tools is available to purchase for the introductory price of $5.95 USD until January 23rd, 2012.
Get the sounds here: http://xenossoundworks.com/monopoly.html
Review of the Sketch Synth 3D v 1.0.4
Steelberry Clones got our hands on the newly released Sketch Synth 3D for a review (version 1.0.4). To best describe Sketch Synth 3D you can say that it is both a synth and a control interface that lets you shape and scalp your soundscapes in 3D. You can use it straight out of the box; but sketch synth also offers you the ability to extend and control your other synths in 3D using Midi output and OSC input & output. We made a short test run of the app on an iPad 2 featured in the video below:
Sketch Synth 3D has a quite different and “rough” UI that may take some time to get used to, but once you have gotten used to it, it is fairly easy to jump from different performance and editing modes. The sounds coming from the Sketch Synth 3D are quite intriguing and easy to manipulate. In one sense from a music creation perspective this app is somewhat what you could expect from an updated KORG Kaossilator. To draw sounds in 3D you can use a touchpad, accelerometers and automated envelopes. This gives you control over the shapes that your sounds take on. However, although beautiful and innovative we still feel that the app has some more steps to take before it is a viable alternative – especially seeing that the sketch pad tends to have glitches in the animation, we lack a sense of real flow in the animations. What is nice though is the ability to load samples and effectively manipulate otherwise fairly dry sounding sounds and take you music making to the next level – adding ambient feels to it. You can either use Sketch Synth’s sound engine to apply effects to samples (including wav files of your own), or you can use it to output OSC or MIDI to your existing synths.
Best Service has released Galaxy X Convolution Synthesizer
Best Service has announced the Galaxy X Convolution Synthesizer by Galaxy Instruments.
After three years of development Galaxy Instruments and Best Service proudly present GALAXY “X”, an exciting new virtual instrument with an extraordinary new kind of sound design: Effect Convolution. It all begins with the sources, which are sample sets especially and exclusively recorded and tweaked for use with FX Convolution: for X-KEYS hundreds of tonally playable instruments like piano overtones, a bowed fan, waterphone or mini-celesta, for X-FX thousands of effect sounds such as magic balls, whirling wood or circuit bent noises and for X-LOOPS exceptional loops such as 1-tone-drum, body percussion or rod spring piano.
But this is just food for the beast: the X-Engine.
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 features
- Convolution Synthesizer.
- New sound synthesis for exciting new sounds.
- Integrated system for FX convolution in one virtual instrument.
- Complete production kit: X-Keys, X-FX and X-Loops.
- More than 1000 ready-to-play Instrument Layers.
- Easy creation of user sounds.
- 15GB of Source Sounds.
- More than 1000 multi-sampled Source Key Instruments.
- More than 5000 Source Loops.
- More than 2000 Source Effect Sounds.
- More than 1400 Convolution X-Files for completely altering the source sounds.
- Complex sound design with an extremely intuitive user interface.
- Easy dynamic use of convolution using the Mod Wheel.
- X-Eye for visualizing the amount of convolution.
- Musical and intuitive Pre-X and Post-X effects.
- Endless sound possibilities designed by you.
Galaxy X will be shipping January 2012 (release at NAMM show), priced MSRP 249 EUR / £219 GBP / $299 USD.
Melodicon – Air-Powered Instruments Inspire New Synth
The Lower Rhythm says that Melodicon was designed from the ground up to be lush, subtly dynamic and just fun to play. Borrowing ideas from a number of different air-powered instruments, Melodicon creates tones reminiscient of everything from flute to melodica, presented in an analog synth / electric organ flavor. Melodicon features dynamic systems such as vibrato, rotary speaker, air and even a tube-emulated channel in order to allow the user to build many similar but distinct sounds.
Feature List:
- 2 oscillators (one Sine, the other experimental)
- Vibrato, rotary and modulation effect
- Variable “Air”
- Variable tube emulated channel
- Global LP filtering and master volume envelope
Pricing and Availability:
$13.99
More information:
Qneo – Voice Synth : Audio Samples
Voice Synth is an innovative synthesizer controlled by voice and keyboard. Available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch in the Apple AppStore at http://itunes.com/apps/voicesynth. All audio samples in this video have been made with Voice Synth on iPad/iPhone, a standard Apple headset and human speech/singing/beatboxing, without additional processing. Two indicated tracks do feature Novation KS4 synthesizer, external microphone, mixer and Apple Garageband.
Cyclic: a new step sequencer on its way
Cyclic is a forthcoming new step sequencer software application, from Defective Records Software, in collaboration with Mutable Instruments.
This is quick intro showing some of its features – it’s using just one monophonic Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1 synth.
More information coming soon on the Defective Records forum: http://defectiverecords.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/64/upcoming-new-ste…
Defective Records: http://defectiverecords.com
Mutable Instruments: http://mutable-instruments.net
Prophanity – Free VST synth
Prophanity – http://www.vstplanet.com/News/2012/Prophanity
Developer: robersonaudio.tk
Chris Roberson (a.k.a. Blu Gruv) has released Prophanity, a freeware VST instrument which aims to clone the Prophet 5.
- Oscillator A: Frequency, Osc Waveform (Saw/Square), Pulse Width, Sync
- Oscillator B: Frequency, Fine, Osc Waveform (Saw/Triangle/Square), Pulse Width, Low Freq, Keyboard
- Mixer: Osc A, Osc B, Noise
- Poly-Mod: Sources – Filter envelope, Osc B; Desinations – Freq A, PW A, Filter
- Wheel-Mod: Source mix (LFO/Noise)
- LFO: Frequency, Waveform (Saw/Triangle/Square)
- Filter: Cutoff, Resonance, Envelope Amount, Keyboard, ADSR
- Amplifier: ADSR
- Volume, Velocity, Master Tune, A440, Glide
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