PC and Music News

The source instrument for Analog Piano is the Crumar ColorSound CompacPiano, an awful name for a wonderful machine.

The ColorSound was intended as a stage piano, but derived all its onboard sounds from good old analogue electronics. It has three preset tones, of which it's the piano that makes you stop and take note: rich, solid, satisfying, and with a natural affinity for contemporary music styles. In many ways it straddles the tonal qualities of an acoustic and an electric piano, sounding more like a "real" piano than a Rhodes or Wurli, but with the same EP-style grunt and heat to the sound. The other two preset tones, HonkyTonk and Clav, are less convincing as instrument emulations.

Ueberschall features 30 powerful energy-boosting Construction Kits to help you find and unlock the hidden motivation for your hit trax. In addition there are more than 1,000 unique SID synths, drums, vox, fx and grains with many styles and loops included as well.

Content:
- 30 Construction Kits
- 108 Drumloops
- 50 Backgroundtracks
- 20 FX Sequences
- 194 Licks & Loops
- 106 Game Sounds
- 72 Voices
- 524 Single Drums.

Eventide Launches a Summer Sales.

Buy an Eventide Stompbox and Get Blackhole Native FREE promo through the end of August.

Blackhole is a massive reverberator that has evolved over the years by pulling in mass quantities of time and energy (of the development persuasion, of course). In its earliest incarnation – first in the DSP4000 and later in the H8000 flagship processors - it was regarded, by some, as a secret weapon. Recently it was tuned, expanded and enhanced and then unleashed in the Eventide Space stompbox. Now, it's available as a Native plug-in.

During July Sibelius community said: "The world's leading music scoring software, Sibelius®, winner of the Queen's Innovation Award and OBE's for its creators the Finn brothers, is in crisis: this will be of real concern to all Sibelius users. This site aims to do something about it."

On month later, The UK office shut down after few months of a big internal crisis. Avid seems not innocent because As with ProTools, Avid's strategy is to send the coding and maintenance work offshore... What do you think about this very bad news and do you have some experience with this very nice software?

Gladiator 2 gives you a groundbreaking approach to sound generation, while supporting an extensive list of
synthesis methods including Tone2's award winning Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) HCM uses a large,
expandable collection of standard and resynthesized waves, these waves can be modified in real time, altering
their harmonic structure.

Some new features:
- 64 Bit VST & AU versions for Mac (requires OSX 10.5 or higher to be installed)
- 64 Bit standalone version for PC
- PDF manual can now be be viewed from within the plugin (Mac)
- More comfortable registration processing
- Smart installer for PC which automatically detects the plugin directory.

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds includes Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Bass Flute, Bassoon, Clarinet, Contra Bass Clarinet, Contra Bassoon, Eb Clarinet, English Horn, Flute, Flute 2, Oboe, Piccolo Flute, with unprecedented sound quality and expression, true legato plus 5 user-controllable microphone positions (Diamond Edition only);

Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Diamond Edition is now available for $995 MSRP ($795 introductory offer) and Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Gold Edition will be available for $595 MSRP ($475 introductory offer).