PC and Music News

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced the approaching releases of Cubase 7 and Cubase Artist 7. Coming on December 5, 2012, Steinberg is already presenting the unique solutions and enhancements within the latest incarnations of Cubase, the most advanced music production system today.

With an array of Virtual Studio Technology (VST) instruments and effects plus production tools employed by producers around the world, Cubase 7 and Cubase Artist 7 now include the new MixConsole mixer, the newly developed channel strip, Chord Track, significant workflow improvements and integration, new content and much more.

Catering to the rhythmically distinctive needs of discerning dubstep producers globally,
SPARK DubStep features a comprehensive library of 30 cutting-edge kits/480 instruments created in partnership with London-based leading pro audio loops and samples provider Sample Magic, themselves cited as being "...one of the elite dance sample venders.
Atomic wobble basses, filthy FX, dirty drums... it's all there for the taking!

Released In celebration of their epic Metal Month celebrations, Toontrack gathered four iconic metal guitarists to custom design a collection of EZmix 2 presets focusing on amp and cab simulation for guitar and bass.

The result is a colossal pack which features rhythm, lead and clean sounds plus settings for acoustic guitar and bass, designed by the Metal Guitar Gods...
- Fredrik Thordenal (Meshuggah)
- Mattias IA Eklundh (Freak Kitchen)
- Misha "Bulb" Mansoor (Periphery)
- Devin Townsend (ex-Strapping Young Lad, The Devin Townsend Project).

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.

Compact and exceedingly easy to use, the Cherry Picker is a 'straight wire' passive switcher that features a balanced mic input with four outputs.

Front panel 'radio-style' selector switches enable the engineer to select the active preamp while the Cherry Picker automatically shuts off the others. Audio signal switching is actually performed using military-grade gold contact sealed relays. This ensures the signal will be transferred from input to output without introducing distortion, coloration or artifact of any kind.

KV331 Audio releases Nori Ubukata's "Sounds of the World", a new preset expansion bank for their SynthMaster 2.5 software synthesizer.

The new bank features 62 MBs of sampled ethnic instruments, in SFZ multi-sample format. Nori Ubukata sampled the following instruments to create this bank:

- Bowed Sarod
- Can Drums.
- Manjeera.
- Ragdan.
- Rattles.
- Santoor.
- Sarod Loops/Phrase.
- Shaku-hachi.
- Shaku-hachi Loops/Phrases.

Registered users of SynthMaster can purchase and download this bank for $15.