PC and Music News

Best Service presents Accordions, a new Kontakt Player-powered sample library produced by Eduardo Tarilonte. It is designed and scripted to perform, in real-time, ultra-realistic accordion melodies and chords. All the subtle sounds from an accordion have been carefully captured to increase the realism of your performance, like key and button noises.

Features :

• 7 complete independent instruments plus 1 bonus accordion : Bandoneon, Concertina, Single Reed Piccolo Accordion, Single Reed Musette Accordion, Single Reed Bassoon Accordion, Double Reed Musette Accordion, Left Hand Bass Accordion, Steirische Accordion (Bonus)
• 8 perfectly balanced multis with fine-tune combinations to create new ready-to-use registers : Oboe Register, Celeste Register, Bandoneon Register, Organ ...

Livid Instruments has announced that its class-compliant MIDI controller Ohm64 is now shipping.

Available now for $599.

VirSyn has updated its delay plug-in FDELAY - The Rhythmiser to version 1.01.

This update adds automation of the Tempo parameter and fixes the tempo synchronization bug.

FDELAY - The Rhythmiser is available for both Mac and PC in VST, RTAS and AU formats at a price of €169. This update is free for all registered users.

Presonus is pleased to announce that they expect to ship Studio One in mid September 2009.

Studio One will be available in two versions: Studio One Artist, which ships with every PreSonus audio interface; and Studio One Pro, which has all of the features of Studio One Artist and includes VST, AU, and ReWire support; a fully integrated mastering section; and other significant additional features and bundled content.

It seems like Korg is about to unveils new products. One of them is called microSAMPLER and may have the following features :

• 37 key (Natural Touch Mini Keyboard with Velocity)
• 8 user bank (A ~ H), 1 ROM bank
• 5 types of sampling (Loop / One Shot / Gate / Auto Next / Key Gate)
• Sample rates of 48kHz - 24kHz - 12kHz - 6kHz
• Approximately 160 seconds per one bank (Mono / 48kHz sampling rate at 159.7 seconds)
• Up to 14 voice poly (stereo / mono regardless)
• 64,000 note sequencer (one per bank notes (16,000 notes max in one pattern))
• 96 ticks / quarter note resolution (real-time recording)
• MIDI IN, OUT and USB
• Software editor for Windows: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or later ...

DSK Music has released DSK Top Keys vol. 1, a free collection of high quality multisample instruments, featuring 9 acoustic pianos, 9 electric pianos & 9 organs.

DSK Top Keys vol. 1 is available in the following formats :

• HALion format (160mb)
• Kontakt format (160mb)
• Refill format (75mb)
• Sampletank format (160mb)
• Soundfont format (160mb)

DSK Top Keys vol. 1 is a donationware. All donations received go to support cancer research, through the Spanish Association Against Cancer.