PC and Music News

Meyer Musicmedia has announced the release of two new Synth Packs for the Analog Synthesizer in Ableton Live.

The Trance and Electro Synth Packs each contain 32 presets and are available in the Meyer Musicmedia member area. 1 year membership costs $12.

Ultimate Sound Bank has announced the release of a new UVI Soundpack dedicated to pianos, Grand Piano Collection.

Grand Piano Collection highlights five instruments :

• Steinway D Concert Grand
• Fazioli F278 Concert
• Erard Baby Grand Piano
• Seiler Upright Grand
• Japanese Upright

For everyone of them the same method was used:
First, the right instrument had to be found. Two different classical and jazz pianists, both outstanding concert performers, gave a hand finding the ideal one. After some research and like dozens of pianos reviewed, the amazing sounding models that all the consultants loved appeared obvious. Then there were several days of booking in some of the best recording studios in Europe, for example Studio Guillaume Tell for the Steinw ...

Celemony today is pleased to invite all registered Melodyne users to participate in the beta testing of Melodyne editor, the first Melodyne product featuring the Melodyne DNA technology.

"It's been a long wait but finally all registered Melodyne customers are able to try out Melodyne editor as part of a public beta test. The beta installer is up on the Celemony server waiting to be downloaded and used to change music recordings in a way that has never been possible before.

Melodyne editor represents, in terms both of functionality and technology the latest Melodyne generation

Toontrack Music announces the Electronic EZX, their first electronic drum collection.

"Until now, it's been 100% acoustic. We felt it was time to plug-in, flip the switch and begin sampling electronic drums.

It is with great excitement that we introduce the Electronic EZX. A modern collection of classic, circuit bent and resampled electronic drum sounds suited for any of genre imaginable.

D16 Group announces the upcoming release of Shioitor, a new virtual synth described as following :

"Shioitor is a revolution in sound within the plugin market. Its authentic analogue character and extensive software features will fulfil the needs of the most demanding musicians and sound designers who use synthesisers in their work.

Since it uses a layered architecture, Shioitor has endless sound shaping possibilities. Each layer can be freely

Plughugger unveils Large Bass Expander, a new soundset for Waldorf's Largo synthesizer.

Large Bass Expander is a collection of 128 bass sounds where the focus lies on modern dance music, rather than classic analogue reproductions. The download package contains the soundset as an FXB bank as well as all sounds in FXP preset format.

Large Bass Expander is priced at €5.90.