PC and Music News

Off the back of their epic Summer release 'Rumble', Sample Logic has joined forces once again with the DCI World-Champion Blue Devils to release Fanfare – a Kontakt Player virtual instrument combining marching brass with the award-winning sound design skills of the Sample Logic team.

From traditional marching brass to full-blown cinematic soundscapes, Fanfare delivers a marching brass library for educators and arrangers, and a versatile construction toolkit for film, TV, game composers, producers, and electronic musicians.

It sounds like a tongue-twister but there's no doubt that in the right hands, magical musical instruments can create magical musical moments. For example, back in the late 60s when Paul McCartney detuned those Mellotron® MKII Flute tapes for the opening of Strawberry Fields Forever, magic was created and has resonated ever since.

Some features:
- Derived from original EMI tape-stock
- 24 carefully curated sounds for M-Tron Pro
- 35 notes per tape bank
- Exclusively available via download - 600MB

Splurgo Audio announces the release of two new sample packs: Djembe Loops Pack 2 and Udu Loops Pack 2

Djembe Loops Pack 2 – This pack is all about the African goblet drum. It contains 50 loops beatmapped at 100 bpm. All files are available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband AIFF. Djembe Loops Pack 2 samplepack can be purchased for $ 6.95 USD.
Udu Loops Pack 2 – A simple African clay pot is the main ingredient for this pack. Inside are 54 loops beatmapped at 90 and 110 bpm. All files are available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband AIFF. The Udu Loops Pack 2 samplepack can be purchased for $ 7.95 USD.

Celemony Software GmbH is pleased to announce the availability of Melodyne editor Version 2. New features include extended timing tools, wide-ranging functions for working with scales, plus Rewire, keyboard shortcuts in the plug-in, and numerous other improvements. The price of Melodyne editor is US$/€ 399; the update costs US$/€ 99.

With Version 2, Melodyne editor has become still more musical, capable of editing in still greater depth, and even more widely compatible. The most important new functions are:

- Extended timing tools
- True Scale & Tuning
- Rewire support.

Multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, songwriter, sound designer and programmer Chris Pitman (Guns N' Roses, Lusk, Replicants, Tool) is back! This time with a collection presets for EZmix that will lift your rock tracks to new heights. Get creative and browse through the impressive list of presets for guitars, basses, vocals and more! Beef up your tracks with just one click!

About Chris
Chris Pitman is best-known for his involvement with hard rock band Guns N' Roses, in which he has been a permanent member since 1998, but also for his work with Les Levine, Dr. Dre, Tool, Blinker the Star as well as his own band SexTapes.

Steven Porter has launched a new version of the acclaimed virtual intrument/samplebank Sound Of The Quadra (Kontakt)

Added the ability to switch off the Convolution reverb by adding an on/off switch in the effects section(switch is in the lead section of the effects section)This helps when running Sounds of the Quadra on older machines because Kontakts Convolution reverb is a cpu eater.If CPU is high on older machines you can now switch off the Convolution reverb.