PC and Music News

Once again, the Vienna Symphonic Library team is greeting the beginning of the fall semester with special offers.

Students and teachers of all educational institutions receive a discount of 25% on software products such as Vienna Instruments PRO, Vienna Ensemble PRO, Vienna Suite, Vienna MIR PRO and Vienna MIR PRO 24 as well as their corresponding RoomPacks. What's more, a discount of 30% is granted on all Vienna Instruments libraries.

Voxengo Deft Compressor version 1.4 update is now
available for download. Voxengo Deft Compressor is an audio track
and bus compressor plug-in for professional audio production
applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats
(including native 64-bit support), for Mac OS X (v10.5 and later),
and Windows computers.

some new features:
- Key signal gain parameter added.
- Plug-in's popup-windows now recover last position after reopening.
- Mouse backward and forward buttons can be used for parameter value
selection...

New to Version 1.5 is the Tune feature, allowing users to easily compose melodies on the MIDI controller's hardware drum pads and sequencer step buttons; the sample engine now enables Choke groups, so users can creatively specify samples that will cut each other off when triggered — perfect for emulating a hi-hat 'choke',
for example (whereby triggering an open-hat sample first, followed immediately by a closed-hat sample will authentically cut off the open-hat prematurely), and also offers creative modes for layering samples (circular, random, stack, threshold); finally, the flexible FX Pad now includes the famed Oberheim SEM V filter featured in Arturia's acclaimed Oberheim SEM V soft synth namesake, bringing unique warmth and depth to those still-sought-after synth sweeps.

TX-101 is a 4-tracks sequencer designed for the creation of evolving rhythm patterns. Each track has 4 different samples (for a total of 16 samples), including organic glitches and metal hits.

Details
- Sequencer: 4 Tracks and 16 Steps
  + tracks for Delay and Flanger
- 8 Patterns presets
- 6 Kontakt Instruments (.nki) presets
- Mod. Wheel assigned to different parameters for each preset
- Size: 16 MB installed / 9 MB Download
- Native Instruments Kontakt 4.2.4+ full version required.

KV331 Audio has released Michael Kastrup's "80s Factory Expansion Bank" for their SynthMaster 2.5 software synthesizer.

The new factory expansion bank features 50 presets that have typical 80's workstation flavour. They are categorized as:

- 8 Basses.
- 1 Bell Synth.
- 4 Brass Synths.
- 1 Chromatic Percussion.
- 1 DR Drum Set (Sampled).
- 2 Guitars.
- 3 Keys.
- 7 Leads.
- 1 Motion Pad.
- 1 Organ.
- 4 Pattern Synths.
- 8 Pads.
- 1 Pluck Synth.
- 1 Sequence.
- 2 Strings.
- 5 Synths.

Sample Logic continues their cinematic legacy by introducing Cinematic Guitars 2 – A suite of over 1200 jaw-dropping instruments and multis that are in no way just another guitar sample library. 

Tech Specs
- 17+ GB library (direct download only)
- 1200+ Instruments & Multis
- Stand-alone, VST, AU, DXi, RTAS (Pro Tools 9 or higher), ASIO, CoreAudio, WASAPI
- Kontakt 5 Player – 5.0.3 or higher (free download) or retail version of Kontakt 5.0.3 or higher (sold separately)
- Mac: Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 (latest update), Intel Core Duo (will not work in OS 10.5 or lower), 2 GB RAM
- PC: Windows 7 (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit) Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2GB RAM.

Cinematic Guitars 2 MSRP: $399.99.