PC and Music News

Ik multimedia announce the release of iLectric Piano, a studio-quality electric piano app for iPad, now available on the App Store. iLectric Piano offers over 40 classic electric pianos, electric grands and clavinets, all carefully sampled from the original instruments.

From clean and icy-cool to sharp and staccato to growling and distorted, iLectric Piano faithfully recreates the gamut of classic electric piano sounds – tones heard on countless hit songs, iconic jazz recordings and classic rock albums. The sonic quality of iLectric Piano rivals that of the best electric piano instruments for Mac/PC.

The KORE 64 ROM option represents a complete expansion and reimagining of the PC3 and PC3K's sonic potential.

Pushing the limits of V.A.S.T. synthesis for both realistic and experimental electronic sounds, KORE 64 adds over 300 new programs, including stunning new Synths, Electric Guitars, Horns, Drums and Percussion. With KORE 64 installed, the PC3/K built-in program library now totals over 1400 presets! KORE 64 ROM is user installable.

Boasting XX MB of contemporary pop guitar samples with a crisp acoustic tone, this vast collection of 24-bit samples will please producers across a wide range or genres.

Comprising of 3 folders, ACOUSTIC POP GUITARS offers a selection of delicately strummed chord progressions, rigid staccato strumming patterns and finger picked arpeggios, all available in both Dry (unmodulated) and Clean (modulated) sample form! There's even one whole folder dedicated to dual guitar samples, comprising of both rhythm and lead guitar in one loop! These samples are available as separate loops too.

Plugin Alliance LLC announce availability of noveltech VOCAL ENHANCER, an all-new native version of Alliance partner company noveltech Audio's unique vocal processing plug-in.

noveltech VOCAL ENHANCER gives vocal recordings unprecedented clarity and crispness without unwanted side effects, thanks to Finnish high-quality audio technologies developer noveltech Audio's patented IAF (Intelligent Adaptive Filtering) technology that lies at its very core. Unlike conventional enhancers, it dynamically boosts the 'desired' characteristics in audio recordings, rather than statically boosting set frequencies, like an EQ, or artificially adding harmonics.

Torsion's sound structure is similar to a traditional subtractive synthesiser – three oscillators going into a low-pass filter and into an amplifier. But Torsion's oscillators produce simple additive waves based on just a few partials, which are then enriched with spectral content using a technique called waveshape modeling.

There is also a ring modulator and an audio-range oscillator for filter FM.
Torsion features as many as four separate LFO generators – one for each oscillator and one for the filter and output amplifier. In addition to precise synchronisation, each LFO cycle can be self-randomised, which makes the modulation rhythmical yet non-repetitive. There are also two AHDSR envelope generators, as well as a two-dimensional chaos oscillator.

Specifications
- Three oscillators each with four basic additive waveforms and four waveshape models.
- 24 dB/octave resonant low-pass filter.
- 12 dB/octave high-pass filter.
- Ring modulator.
- Modulation oscillator for low-pass filter FM. Four tempo-synchronised LFO generators with four waveforms and per-cycle randomisation.
- Two AHDSR envelope generators.
- Two-dimensional chaos modulation generator based on Lorenz attractor.

This fixes some long time (but not very common) problem when restoring loops, some of you reported this, but we rarely being able to reproduce anything, and if, it often the problem vanished right away, or so it seemed.

Finally we have been able to smash a bug which could lead to either a loop not being displayed correctly or not played back correctly, after restoring a song/project in your daw. The bad news is that the bug is partly in the saving, so this fix will not magically repair any project that suffers from the problem, but prevent it from occuring again (and also fix an issue which is on the loading side only). So in any case, this is a recommended update.