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Melodic Orchestra Lines

Equinox Sounds Modern Orchestra MIDI Melodies 2 features MIDI patterns and WAVs


Equinox Sounds tells us that Modern Orchestra MIDI Melodies 2 features 30 superb orchestra instrument MIDI melodies for piano, string and wind instruments that are perfect to be used in a wide variety of modern music styles like Hip Hop, Dance, House, R&B, Pop, etc.

These 30 melodies are also available in WAV format. Each melody comes labelled with the original tempo and key when recorded.

A spokesperson told Sonic State, "As these patterns are supplied in MIDI format, they will provide you with as much flexibility as possible. You can edit and transpose them, assign any sound you want and get your own and original melodic lines. The editing possibilities are endless as you can play the performances at any tempo or pitch without artefacts. You can use these MIDI files as a jumping-off point to start your own track or base your production entirely around them as they are 100% royalty-free!."

Product Features:

• 30 Orchestra Instrument MIDI Melodies
• 30 Orchestra Instrument WAV Melodies
• BPM Information Included
• 100% Royalty-Free

Pricing and Availability:
Modern Orchestra MIDI Melodies 2 is currently available for $19.95 as a download.

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Equinox Sounds

Brass And Woodwind For Kontakt

Best Service releases Chris Hein Horns Pro Complete


Best Service tells us that Chris Hein Horns Pro Complete is based on the CHH Vol. 1-4 libraries, those being almost completely reworked, so it's like introducing a new product. They say that the library is now based on Kontakt Player 5 and offers a completely reworked user interface as well as phase synchronized samples for perfect blending between velocities.

A spokesperson told Sonic State, "CHH Pro Complete is the most complete virtual-instrument library of Brass & Woodwind instruments for Jazz, Pop, Big-Band, Funk production but also to spice up your cinematic and orchestral tracks. With CHH Complete you get 54 Solo- and 32 Section-Instruments, partitioned in four volumes which contain different groups of instruments perfectly matching each other. All versions are available as downloads or on a 64GB USB Stick, allowing instant installation."

New in CHH Pro:

• New C-Flute Instrument

• All new Graphical User Interface

• Phase synchronized samples for perfect blending between velocities

• Extremely customizable Articulation Presets including copy paste feature

• New Key-Switch preset management

• New flexibel Hot-Key management

• Articulations can be unloaded to save memory

• Speed Change for all articulations

• Five different Velocity X-Fade Modes.

• Velocity Fade Filter

• Transient Designer

• New Effects: Attack Shapes, Air, Noise, Release Effects

• 16 new Convolution Impulses for Reverb

• Improved Key-Vibrato

• Two independent, intelligent LFO-Vibrato types

• Auto vibrato

• Assignable Pitch-Bend

• iPad & iPhone real time remote controller

Pricing and Availability:

Chris Hein Horns Pro complete: MSRP € 649/$699/£519

Upgrade from any CHH single volume: € 349/$389/£279

Crossgrade from CHH Compact: € 499/$539/£399

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Echo FX On iOS

Holderness Media Inc release Echo Pad


Holderness Media tells us that Echo Pad is a realtime Echo effect processor featuring a unique delay + sound on sound looper controlled by a multi-touch XY interface on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch device. Here's what they have to say about it...

Use the built in mic on your headphones, plug in a guitar, microphone, synth, drum machine, iOS device, or whatever you want using an audio interface such as the Apogee Jam or MIC, or one of the many other compatible iOS and USB audio interfaces. (Verified up to date list of compatible audio interfaces below.) Echo Pad was born out of love for tape echoes, sound on sound loopers and noisy, dirty analog delay pedals. Echo Pad excels at hands on warping delay tones and controlled feedback, and is not afraid to get loud. Great for both live performance and sound design, Echo Pad was designed to have fun with the ability to sculpt a wide range of delay tones from subtle rhythms to heavy, dubbed out ambient swirls, to aggressive feedback explosions. Who needs another whack, sterile digital delay to strum generic radio rock riffs with? No one. Adding to the fun is a no frills sound on sound looper, perfect for quickly looping and layering guitar riffs or vocal melodies, glitching live audio input, building layered ambient soundscapes and more. Loops can be quickly bounced to an audio file for sharing with other apps. Echo Pad is a Universal app that supports Audio Copy/Paste (General Pasteboard) for quickly sharing loops and recordings created with Echo Pad with other audio apps, as well as playing back and processing pasted audio from other apps through Echo Pad's effects. You can also export a loop or recording directly into the AudioShare file management app by using the "Export to AudioShare" functions. This exports your loop or recording directly into the AudioShare app without needing to use AudioCopy/Paste, for a super fast workflow. Additionally, recordings and loops can be exported to iTunes FIle Sharing for access on your Mac/PC.

Features:
Realtime FX processor designed for live performance and sound design
Multi-touch XY control of delay parameters for expressive control
Sound on sound looper for creating layered loops on the fly
Universal app
Supports iPhone 5 screen
Supports Background audio
Works with headphones as well as most iOS and professional USB audio interfaces

Pricing and Availability:
$2.99

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Echo Pad

Free Hybrid Modeled String Orchestral Instrument

Sound Magic releases Orchestral Strings One


Sound Magic tells us that Orchestral Strings One was recorded utilizing the legendary acoustics in the famous Berliner Hall - home of the world class BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER.Here's all the details in their own words...

Our full string orchestra contains 14 violins,10 Violas, 8 Cellos and 6 Double Basses. Now you're your turn to experience this huge orchestral section as a useful string instrument. Sound Magic has created Orchestral Strings One as a single ensemble complete with the beautiful ambience of this amazing hall. This incredible instrument will quickly become your "go to" string orchestra. No longer will you have to try and build a similar sound with several different string instruments or sections, burning up tracks, RAM, CPU cycles and your valuable time!

Violins, violas, cellos and basses are considered to be nearly impossible to sample into realistic sounding instruments. And the String Ensemble is the holy grail of these string instruments. KVR's Developers Challenge has provided Sound Magic with an opportunity to push the boundaries of our Hybrid Modeling Technology by creating Orchestral Strings One. Our quest for extreme realism not only lets us flex our engineering and computational chops - it gives you an incredibly useful freebie!

If you're familiar with the #2 ranked KVR instrument, Piano One, you know how clean Sound Magic's efforts are. To ensure the highest sound quality possible in our samples, we use top-of-the-line gear such as Brauner Microphones and Neve preamps. Couple this gear with the prodigious Berliner Hall and Orchestral Strings One is able to push the boundaries of realism - with the aid of Sound Magic's Award-Winning NEO Hybrid Modeling Technology, of course!

The NEO Hybrid Modeling Engine offers you the best from both the sampling and modeling worlds. The Authentic Sound of Sampling combined with the Playability of Modeling makes for a string experience that you have to try to believe! No steep hardware requirements here. Orchestral Strings One takes up less than 200MB of disk space and doesn't overly tax your CPU. The NEO Hybrid Modeling Engine gives you absolute control over every aspect of each string - you can even design your own string! There are nearly 20 controls waiting for you to tweak! Some of you (you know who you are!) just HAVE to dial up the legato and velocity, fiddle with the dynamic response, and play with those timbre differences.

Unlike static samples, modeling technology really brings the Orchestral Strings One to life. And more importantly, Orchestral Strings One focuses on the continuous flow of melody, not on just a single note. For example, you can progressively transform a sustained note by first adding slow vibrato, then medium vibrato and finally fast vibrato. While doing this, you can also use the expression controller to change from crescendo to decrescendo. This sort of control is just about impossible to achieve with sampled strings.

Orchestral Strings One is very easy to use. You can play with all the parameters on the fly with a MIDI keyboard using key switches and controllers. A keyboard player can easily and freely play our Orchestral Strings One without any difficulty. It's perfect for a live performance!

Features
Innovative Sampling technologies put 14 violins, 10 Violas, 8 Cellos and 6 Double Basses into One instrument.
Neo Hybrid Modeling Engine make the full strings section into 200MB.
Innovative Key Switch and Controller system makes it ideal for use in live performance.
Can real-time switch between Spic, Staccato, Pizzicato, Legato, Cresando, Decresando, PFP, Vibrato, Tremolo, Trills and Sordino by Key Switches and MIDI Controllers.
Fully controllable legato system.
Auto Rhythm Tool helps you better and quicker play repeated notes on fly.
Multi Microphone Positions, Player, Audience and Ambience/Room.
Small RAM usage and Light on CPU.
Built-in High-Quality Reverb.
Built in 64-Steps Sequencer enable users to compose their string phrases in a quickest and efficient way.
Support Add-ons System.

Pricing and Availability:
Free download

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Orchestral Strings One

Ueberschall Releases Rare Grooves Vol.1

New sound library focuses on the early era of funk


Ueberschall has released Rare Grooves Vol.1. Here's the full story in their own words...

The wild, wild seventies - experiments in all areas and of course in music! This decade has stretched the borders of technology and expanded the sounds and styles in a wide range. It is not without a cause, this decade has been sampled most by producers and DJs. Rare Grooves exactly offers this feeling but on a legal base.

Rare Grooves brings the time and the feel of magnetic tape recordings into your DAW. Due to financial and technical limits of smaller studios of that era, sound experiments were a crucial part when finding one‘s personal sound. Among the favored stylistic devices were tape saturation up to the VU-meter‘s limits, lurching tape-delays, unusual reverbs, amplifier feedback an of course a good portion of overdrive - real garage sound.

Rare Grooves focuses on the early era of Funk where groovy soul-beats and energy-charged rock-elements still had an impact on this genre. This makes this library the perfect choice for hip-hop, breakbeat, crossover- and dance-tracks; be it for music production, mix tapes, soundtracks or advertisements.

Rare Grooves consists of 10 construction kits with a total of 734 loops. The kits cover a tempo range from 78 to 122 BPM. Kits 1 to 9 include intro, parts A and B, break and outro. Construction kit 10 contains 9 tracks of different classic breaks designed to be used in all other kits.

All instruments are available on single tracks with that appropriate raw sound, allowing you to use grooves as a whole or integrate single instruments into your own tracks.

The drum sets are categorized into bass drum, snare drum top, snare drum bottom, hihat, ride, crash, toms, tambourine and overheads. We also added complete mixdowns of the beats which are useful for fast work as well as for perfect reproduction of that seventies sound - just like getting a vinyl-sample.
For the real groove, this library only uses typical funk-instruments, being recorded with the matching vintage-effect processors: Rhodes electric piano, electric bass and guitars, strings, brass and synthesizers.

Rare Grooves is a library of character, equally suited for music production, film- and television dubbing and games. In short: whenever you need the unique black-music-sound of the early seventies, Rare Grooves is your choice.

Elastik-Features
Ueberschall‘s Elastik player is the ideal tool for DJ-based production in your DAW environment. Integrate full grooves or single loops into your own tracks. At the same time, you can modify any loop using effects such as filtering, format tools, reverse playback or resampling. Also, immediate time-stretching is possible, using zplanes advanced élastique pro algorithm.
All Elastik libraries use a clearly arranged browser using attributes for fast searching of loops and instruments across all installed construction kits and libraries. The best premise for crossover-productions.

Credits
Production, Sound Design: Uwe Kinast, Drums, Percussion: Michael Fromm, Brass: David Milzow, Bass, Guitars, Keyboards: Kai Reuter
2.4 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 734 loops

Genres: Funk, Breakbeat, Hip-Hop, Dance
Elastik Sound Bank for Mac/PC/AU/VST/RTAS/Stand-Alone
Elastik Player included - no sampler needed!

Pricing and Availability:
99 Euro

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Rare Grooves

Genelec Offers SpeakerAngle For Android

App allows users to correctly configure and match the angling of stereo or surround-sound speaker systems


Genelec has announced the latest news regarding its highly successful TEC Award-nominated SpeakerAngleapp.

First, in response to popular demand, the app is now available for Android devices, priced at just $ 0.99 USD. The Android version of SpeakerAngle is functionally and graphically identical to the popular iOS version released in August and already in use by thousands of audio professionals and home studio/theater owners. It works on all Android smartphones and tablets running OS 2.3 (Gingerbread) or later and equipped with a gyroscope chip, including the Samsung Galaxy II and III; the HTC Evo 3 and 4; the Google Nexus; and the Asus Transformer and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Second, Genelec has announced the availability of SpeakerAngle version 1.2 for iOS devices as a free update on the Apple iTunes Store. This latest version offers improved functionality that indicates when speakers are angled at +/- 3 degrees of 30 (the range of angles that will generally work best when speakers are equidistant from the listening position). All iOS versions of SpeakerAngle are fully compatible with iOS 6 and with the iPhone 4 and later (including the new iPhone 5), iPad 2 and later and iPhone Touch 4th Generation and later.

SpeakerAngle is the first digital tool that allows anyone to correctly set and match the angling ("toe-in") of both stereo and 7.1 surround sound speakers, helping to ensure optimum audio fidelity. Easy and intuitive to use, SpeakerAngle was co-developed by Genelec and AudioApps (a new mobile apps company founded by industry veteran Howard Massey).

In the app, dedicated onscreen speaker icons move as the actual speaker is rotated, while number boxes below each speaker icon continuously display the angle of the speaker. The number boxes also change color to let users know when their speaker is angled within industry recommendations, and when it is angled to the same degree as the other one in the pair (i.e. left and right in stereo systems; front left / front right, rear left / rear right and side left / side right in 7.1 surround systems). Detailed information screens provide a tutorial on speaker angling, as well as step-by-step instructions for using SpeakerAngle.

Will Eggleston, Genelec USA Marketing Director, told Sonic State, “The Genelec SpeakerAngle app is a convenient and intuitive way to quickly set and confirm the angle of your speakers in your listening environment, and it was important to us that we listen to our loyal customers and meet their request for an Android version while continuing to offer enhanced functionality for iOS devices. This is a perfect tool for recording engineers, system installers, home theater owners and anyone else working to get optimum sound from any loudspeaker system. The possibilities are exciting, and we look forward to audio enthusiasts everywhere putting it to good use.”

To use SpeakerAngle, simply select the desired mode of operation (Stereo or Surround), then place your Android or iOS device on top of the speaker you want to angle. Set the speaker so that it is facing straight towards you, then touch the corresponding speaker icon so that it lights up. Next, touch the icon's number box to let SpeakerAngle know that the selected speaker is currently at “zero-axis.” Now physically rotate the speaker inwards (that is, towards the listening position). The selected speaker icon will move accordingly, and the number box below it will display the degree to which the speaker is angled. When the speaker is angled within the industry recommendation of 20 degrees to 45 degrees, the number box changes color, from red to green (light green when angled between 27 and 33 degrees). When you touch the speaker icon once again (or select any other speaker icon), the number box changes color to orange, and "freezes" the currently displayed angle. Next, touch the paired speaker icon (for example, the right speaker in a stereo system if you have just angled the left speaker). Pick up your Android or iOS device and place it on top of that speaker, then touch the number box below the speaker icon. Physically rotate the speaker inwards until the number box changes color to yellow, indicating that this speaker is now angled to the same degree as the first one. To continue experimenting with different speaker angles, you can start from scratch at any time by pressing SpeakerAngle's RESET button.

Pricing and Availability:
$ 0.99 USD

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Genelec