PC and Music News

Steinberg announces the release of four VST Sound Loop Sets for electronic music aficionados. For these new products, Steinberg has collaborated with the award-winning sound design company Sample Magic to compile a best-of collection of their "zeitgeist-surfing" pool of sounds.

Producer, DJ and sound designer Sharooz, who remixed the likes of Gossip, Moby and Kings of Leon to name a few, was the one in charge of recording the sounds for these expansion packs. He created an electrifying and truly inspiring sound collection for high-quality music productions ranging from minimal to ambient and prog house to electro.

The Avid Scorch app transforms your iPad mobile device into an interactive music stand, score library, and sheet music store. With this powerful app, viewing beautiful scores is just the beginning. Thanks to the award-winning Sibelius engine, Scorch generates true, interactive notation.

Easily learn songs or adapt them to your instrument by transposing a score, changing instruments, or converting to and from guitar tab—then give a great performance using Music Stand mode.

About Loomer String
String is a virtual instrument that emulates the beautiful sound of the polyphonic string synthesizer.

Divide-Down Oscillators
String's authentic tone comes from its accurate emulation of the divide-down oscillator technology behind the lush ensemble synths of the 70s.
Contains VST (32-bit / 64-bit), RTAS, and Standalone executable versions.

Twentyseven steep band filter each with their own compressor unit allow for extremely detailed sound processing.

The multiband filter BARK takes the approach to match the reception characteristic of the final destination of all sound: the ear. The ear behaves as if it contains a bank of filters, each filter passing frequencies within the critical band. Two tones separated by more than a critical bandwidth are received by the ear independently. For this reason BARK contains a filter bank with 27 bandpass filters matching the critical bandwidth.

Expansive functionality combined with warm, analog sound come from the state-of-the-art all-analog circuitry. Musical, flexible, playable, and durable, the Cluster Flux is capable of providing classic flanging, chorusing, and vibrato effects, but is also capable of a much wider range of modulated delay line effects than traditional stomp boxes in this class due to the wide range of the front panel controls, the multi-waveform LFO, as well as CV and MIDI Control.

The MF-108M Cluster Flux is more powerful than traditional chorus/flange effects offering musicians the added modulation of multiple LFO waveforms: Sine, Triangle, Square, Saw, Ramp and Random, to create many kinds of new modulated BBD Delay effects. MIDI IN allows control of Delay Time, Range, Feedback, Output Level, LFO Waveform, LFO Rate, LFO Amount and Mix.

Petri is a sample player that generates its own sequences and selects up to eight random samples from a folder of your choosing. It was designed to create glitchy, IDM-inspired drum patterns very quickly. More than simply creating randomized sequences, Petri uses a series of probability algorithms that respond to however sparse or dense you would like the patterns to be, simply by dragging a slider. If you prefer, all randomization can be turned off, and Petri can instead be used as a traditional sample player with sequences input by hand using a familiar 8x8 matrix editor.

Petri is $30 and there is a free demo available to try out the app. The demo version is identical to the paid version except for a 2-second sine wave burst around every 30 seconds. Once you buy a registration code, the program is authorized and will no longer sound the sine wave interruption.