PC and Music News

Just a little news (it's not really a news) to say to you: Merry Christmas!

All MacMusic staff join me to wish you all the best for this evening. We hope Santa Klaus will offer you many musical gifts as you like!

Now that Waldorf have released the magnificent PPG Wave 3.00, it has been decided to discontinue the Hollow Sun 'Definitive PPG' library as it makes no sense to be in competition with 'the real thing', so to speak.

But before that happens, here's an opportunity to grab it for a measly $1! That's about 64p in real money or roughly €0.75!!
his offer is valid until the twelfth day of Christmas on January 5th, 2011, at which point, she will be gracefully and lovingly retired with thanks for services beyond the call of duty. So if you have Kontakt and fancy a taste of these iconic sounds, grab it while you can!

Applied Acoustics Systems announces the release of the free Swatches sound bank compilation for the AAS Player plug-in.

Swatches is a free compilation of high quality sounds carefully picked from the Analog Essentials, Ultra FX, Starlight, Journeys, and Entangled Species sound banks. Swatches currently ships with 40 presets and AAS intends to add more with new sound bank releases. Swatches is a great source of inspiring sounds as well as a fun and easy way to test drive AAS' sound bank titles.
The Swatches sounds bank is available now for free.

Free Samples!
Six samples: two snares, two toms, two kick drums. ZIP file, 26,2 MB.

MoReVoX' DriveDrums Library for the DrumXchanger contains more than 800 samples. All based upon outstanding acoustic recordings, they were treated with finest tube and tape distortion effects from subtle to sick.
An exclusive feature is the "Drive-Control" with the DrumXchanger's RIM function for further sample sound variations.

AcousticsampleS presents its christmas gift: UDU FREE

- UDU Free is a Nigerian side hole pot drum.
- 130Mo of samples recorded at 24 bits, 88.2khz downsampled to 24bits/44.1khz.
- Carefully recorded with all of the possible strokes, bass, bass muted, side, fingertips...
- Release samples on the bass tone to mimic the movement of the hand.
- 4 Cycle round robins.
- Detailed instruments: Up to 15 velocity layers per round robin.
- Sensitivity button to adjust the response.
- ASPlayer, KONTAKT 2 or superior.
- UDU free is (a tiny) part of the Percussiv' library
- It's FREE!!!

We also extend our Xmas sale until December 31 !!!

Voxengo launches version 3.3 of GlissEQ, a dynamic parametric equalizer plug-in for Mac and Windows.

some new features:
- "Show All Channel Meters" metering issue in 5.1 surround mode fixed.
- Additional visual look variation settings added.
- Smooth filter automation implemented.
- Global precision settings persistence issue fixed.
- Underlay color selection was removed – group's defined color is used now.
- EQ range selector added (this may shift existing automation envelopes).
- "Filled Spectrum" spectrum display mode switch added.
- Oversampling filter type "Min-phase/Lin-phase" switch added.
- Global "Auto Oversampling Level" 1X (off) option added.
- Level meter's "density mode" improved.
- Control surface crosshair option added (can be switched off in the global options).
- Narrow-band sweeping mode crash problem fixed.