PC and Music News

Imagine a room which is sounding like an "a" or a "z". Now imagine the a or z room has a french accent. Wouldn't it be cool to play drums inside that room? What about changing between several "alphabet" rooms while playing, so you can let your drums talk?
And how about separate rooms for male and female voices? Cool right? Well, we thought so, too! Therefore we created such rooms, recorded and mapped them, so you can play the whole alphabet with each drum. Let us introduce you to Speeched Drums!
This is only the first release of our Speeched Drums line. Other languages will follow over the next months.
Facts:
You can choose Complete to buy all of the sound packs included with Speached Drums or just the pack(s) you like.

Complete - 4 Sample Kits, 720 MB samples 29,99€
male - 2 Sample Kits, 340 MB samples 17,99€
female - 2 Sample Kits, 380 MB samples 17,99€

StepPolyArp for iPad is updated to 1.4


New features:

- Core MIDI compatibility
- Adding 16 patterns by preset
- Number of steps from 1 to 32
- Multitasking
- Adding MIDI Network Auto Connect parameter
- Copy/Paste of patterns, grids, and step controllers
- Creating a virtual MIDI output port
- Gate minimum value fixed to 15% instead of 25%
- Bugs fixed


Price : $11.99

SoundHack is pleased to announce SoundHack Pvoc Kit, which combines time stretching, pitch shifting, soundfile looping and phase distortion into four easy to use, sonically rich plugins.

The plugins of the Pvoc Kit bundle are:
- Pitchsift - a pitch shifter and MIDI harmonizer with spectral gating.
- Spiralstretch - a multilayer, realtime 1x to 100x time stretcher with granular and phase vocoder stretching.
- Phasemash - ring modulation, robot sounds, ambient washes, spectral scrambling.
- Pvocloop - a four-voice soundfile looper with time stretching, pitch shifting and MIDI control.

Pvoc Kit can be automated by MIDI controller messages. They are currently running as VST, RTAS and Audio Unit on Mac OS X and VST on Windows. 64-bit is under development. The list price is $99.00.

Predator is used in many contemporary studios as a standard goto synth. A real production beast!

This is not only because of its phat and organic sound, the userfriendly interface, but also because of the many musical and inspirational presets!



Now the update Predator 1.6.1b can be downloaded with:

New presets inside these banks:
02 Predator dance 04, 03 Classic synth 03,04 HipHop RnB 01
04 HipHop RnB 02, 05 Trance and PsyTrance 03,
12 DubStep 02, 20 all basses 04 Session Trance banks with Rob Fabrie of Gizeh. (Gizeh Trance 1 bank and Gizeh Trance 2 bank) You can hear short audio examples here, these uses RP Punch for drums. In case you use FireFox, some players do not work very well. Then please download the MP3 examples of these new sounds: HipHop MP3, Classic synth_MP3, DubStep_MP3, Dance_MP3, Trance_MP3 Predator 1.6.1b is also compatible with Mac OS-X Lion.

There are new versions of the E-Pian (electric piano) and VibysM (vibraphone), we added some new features, re-did the whole voicing and improved the ASPLayer versions.
The ASPlayer versions now have the same features as the kontakt versions.AcousticsampleS also mades some new demos to show the improvements over the previous versions.
The updates are available for free in your account in the update section.
E-Pian can be purchased for 49€ and VibysM for 34€

Leading electronics expert Kenton is well known for its rock-solid products that form the hub of many a recording studio worldwide. Now the MIDI USB Host joins their range of innovative MIDI solutions…

The MIDI USB Host provides a simple and straightforward means of connecting any 'Class Compliant' USB device to a standard 5-pin DIN MIDI device without the need for a computer. This enables, for example, direct connection of a USB controller or keyboard to another MIDI instrument that has only a 5-pin DIN MIDI connection.
Mains powered, the compact and rugged MIDI USB Host features a USB port (USB A socket) and MIDI In and Out sockets (both on 5-pin DIN). MIDI data received at the MIDI In socket will be sent to the USB device, while MIDI data received from the USB device will be sent to the MIDI Out socket.

Additionally, the MIDI USB Host can provide up to 500mA of USB Buss power to the USB device if required.