PC and Music News

Propellerhead just has capped off its tremendously successful "Music Making Month," a series of activities that spanned the entire month of May to inspire and help people with their music creating endeavors.

During the month, Propellerhead held 25 live streaming interviews, clinics and Q/A sessions plus an additional dozen tutorials and videos with music professional and insiders on topics as varied as song inspiration and lyric writing to synthesis techniques and mixing/effects tricks to promotional ideas and placement opportunities.

VINTAGE COMPRESSORS is the first release in a new range of professional studio effects based on the GUITAR RIG effects framework. Developed in collaboration with acclaimed Swedish DSP developers Softube, known for their highly sophisticated emulations of analog audio hardware, VINTAGE COMPRESSORS comprises three different models designated as the VC 76, VC 2A and VC 160.

While the VC 76 excels at drums and vocals, the VC 2A is popular for vocals, bass and guitar, with the VC 160 being a common choice for string instruments and individual drum sounds as well.

Blue Cat Audio and Feeltune are happy to announce a partnership for the integration of Blue Cat Audio plug-ins into Feeltune's musical workstation, the Rhizome.

Blue Cat Audio's famous suite of free plug-ins now come pre-installed on the Rhizome, and offers a fully integrated experience with Feeltune's unique workstation.

Plug In: Chorus and Flanger (mono and stereo), Freanalyst, Gain suite, Phaser and TripelEQ.

FXpansion is proud to present Best of GURU, a Geist Expander pack which brings together the highlights of the GURU factory sound library. With 3GB of diverse kits, loops and single-hit sounds, Best of GURU offers a huge array of sounds pre-formatted for Geist to drop into your productions.

In total, Best of GURU contains over 350 kits, over 1500 loops and over 9500 single-hit sounds. The included samples and loops are all in .WAV, .AIF or .RX2 format, so can be used in any software or hardware instrument which can load these formats.

The second installment in the Hollywood series, Hollywood Brass is an epic achievement, once again combining the talents of Shawn Murphy, Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen.

Recorded in place at EastWest Studio 1, widely regarded as the "best brass recording room in the entire world" with 5 true mic positions, Hollywood Brass is designed to work seamlessly with Hollywood Strings (and the upcoming Woodwinds and Percussion). Running on the next generation and completely revamped engine, PLAY 3, Hollywood Brass will run flawlessly on your system along with Hollywood Strings. This is also exciting news for current Hollywood Strings users, as PLAY 3 and the new Hollywood Strings program update are free to all users.

AVAILABLE JULY 10

Platinum Samples and John Emrich are pleased to announce the release of their Military Cadence Multi-Format MIDI Groove Library. Military Cadence features drum line grooves, snare rolls and a full collection of rudiments formatted for BFD2®, BFD Eco®, EZDrummer®, EZplayer®, Superior Drummer 2.0®, Addictive Drums®, Cakewalk® Session DrummerTM as well as General MIDI which can be used with any GM compatible drum software or hardware.

Military Cadence contains a collection of 285 live, military cadence grooves and rudiments recorded as a real performance on an electronic drum set. This definitive collection features the first really usable military band style patterns for MIDI.