PC and Music News

Sir Sampleton is inspired by sampling Casio and Yamaha toy keyboards of the 80's. These classic keyboards were great toys, but are now expensive because they are sought after by professional musicians for their warm, low-fi sound and simple operation. Now, it's possible to have similar sound and functionality in an app, plus the features that you wish the old keyboards had, like the ability to save samples.

FEATURES:
- Sample through the microphone and then play your samples on the dual keyboards
- Save and recall your samples
- Add rhythm with the built-in beats and random beat generator
- Tweak advanced sound settings such as vibrato, note trail length, and sample time
- Put one sample on each keyboard in dual-sample mode
- Tracks up to five fingers at once
- Ten voices

As an early Christmas gift to our customers, we hereby release a virtual copy of a 1926 Pleyel grand piano Model F, available in the latest version of the KIViR add-on collection of historical instruments.

Chopin preferred to compose and perform on Pleyel pianos and it was also used by other major composers, such as Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. The Pleyel sound can be described as round, warm and sensual.

ABBEY ROAD MODERN DRUMS complements the previous 60s, 70s and 80s installments, and is based on two renowned drum kits that are a staple of modern studio productions – a Drum Workshop Collector's Series "White Kit" and a Pearl Reference "Sparkle Kit". Further expanded with various distinctive cymbals from Sabian and Zildjian as well as three snare drum options each, both kits were recorded with painstaking precision in Abbey Road's Studio Two and Studio Three, taking full advantage of the acoustic properties of these famous recording rooms.
ABBEY ROAD MODERN DRUMS is available for purchase in the NI Online Shop on DVD and as a download for $119 / 99 EUR

As every year, Linplug looked for something special for you for this cold winter season, to warm your hearts :) This year we picked up some type of special offer, that we last had 6 years ago, a long time: A bundle of instruments
for everyone (read on):

"The Synth Bundle", including
- The LinPlug CronoX 3 Sample Synthesizer ( 129• / 149US$ )
- The brand new LinPlug MorphoX Synthesizer ( 99• / 129US$ )
- The Rob Papen Albino 3 Synthesizer ( 149• / 179US$ )
- The Octopus FM Synthesizer ( 99• / 129US$ )
- The Alpha Classic Synthesizer ( 79• / 99US$ )
- The LinPlug ElementP Percussion Synth ( 29• / 39US$ )
- The Ian Boddy Soundset for the Alpha Synthesizer ( 39• / 49US$ )
- The Summa Soundset for the Octopus Synthesizer ( 39• / 59US$ )
including altogether more than 5500 preset sounds Instead of 662 Euro / 832 US$, now for just: 299 Euro / 399 US$

This pack is designed for French House, Itilaian disco etc.
Mini Construction Kits: 23 inspiring kits containing all their breakout parts for full creative control. Inspiration straight from the box courtesy of ready made kits mixed and primed for dance floor destruction.

- Base Loops: 50 deep and dirty baselines all dripping in low-end squelch.
- Synth Loops: 50 inspirational melodic motifs including, creamy analogue chord riffs fused with crisp clean inspiring progressions.
- Drum Loops (incl. Rex2 files): 80 precision-programmed drum loops presented as both top loops (no kick) and full loops (with kick).
- Drum Hits: 60 choice kicks, snares, hats and hits all optimized for modern electronic drum programming.
- One Shots: 60 razor sharp synth shots ready to be fired up in your favorite sampler.
- Vox Twists: 15 unique twisted vocal loops.
- Fills: 15 tightly programmed drum fills to inject movement and energy into your tracks.
- FX: 15 quirky loop based SFX beds
- Plus, a bonus folder containing retro drum machine loops.

Arturia announces that Analog Laboratory is now shipping. Analog Laboratory is an extremely powerful software synthesizer solution. It offers 3500 legendary classic synthesizer sounds with a unique interface to tweak them all as well as the ability to edit each of them in depth, in the original synthesizer. With the addition of 200 scenes organized by genres, including drum loops and advanced arpeggiation melodies, Analog Laboratory is likely to become the reference synth workstation.
3500 synthesizer sounds selected from the Arturia Classic Synths (minimoog-V, Moog modular V, CS-80V, Prophet-V, ARP2600 V and Jupiter-8V).
INTRODUCTORY OFFER: The first 1000 units are sold at discount price: Buy Analog Laboratory for the price of Analog Factory. Instead of $299/Eur269, pay $249/Eur229.