PC and Music News

Splurgo Audio announces the release of two new sample packs: String Arpeggio Loops and Tape Drum
Machine Loops.

- String instruments are used to play arpeggios in classical music. Along with scales, arpeggios are a form of basic technical exercise. Take this exercise in some nice loops and you will find a pack filled with string arpeggios.

- Early drum machines were often referred to as "rhythm machines." In 1930–32, the spectacularly innovative and complex Rhythmicon was realized by Léon Theremin on the commission of composer-theorist Henry Cowell, who wanted an instrument with...

Antiono Sage has Just released the (((Superecho))) soundset for Rob Papen's Subboombass synth.

This is a sound bank with an electronic edge. It is designed to bring some razor sharpness to your productions.
These sounds were designed in collaboration with DJ Bad Boy Bill.
It is available for purchase immediately.

Robot voices, whispering strings, talking drum loops, rhythmic pads, the resonant ringing of bells, dripping water - the possibilities are all but infinite. With a quick tweak here and there, the Lector turns any incoming signal into novel sounds and effects.

The analysis filter bank splits the incoming audio signal into as many as 100 frequency bands, the intensity of which modulates the volume levels of an equal number of band-pass filters in the synthesis filter bank. The integrated 16-voice synthesizer or an external source provides the input signal for the synthesis filter bank.
Windows XP or newer, Mac OS X 10.4 or newer

REDD (Maschine version) is an installable library designed for Maschine owners. It is a sound library resampled from the
REDD (Kontakt version) and tuned in MASCHINE 1.6. In this library you will find some aggressive fat bass, aggressive lead and soft pad instruments. Some pads instruments are processed with Absynth FX, so you'll need to have Absynth to use them. The audio demos are made with REDD (Maschine version) and Anamorphic without extra processing, mixing or mastering. This library contains:
- 30 instruments (bass, lead, pads)
- Over 700MB samples
This library can be used for a large range of music styles like Trance, Dance, R'n'B, Electro...

Promotion ends April 30th, 2011 at midnight USA-Pacific time.
RULES & CONDITIONS
The purchased product "list price" is used to calculate the free product at the "equivalent list price or less". The FREE product cannot be the same as your purchased product. Purchased product must be activated in iLok.com account (new or existing) before FREE product license is placed in the same iLok account. iLok security key is required and is not included (purchase at soundsonline.com or soundsonline-europe.com). One iLok key holds all licenses. Allow additional shipping time during promotions.

INformation from NAMM.org
Max Matthews was working as an engineer at the famed Bell Laboratory in 1954 when he was asked to determine if the computer Bell was designing could create music. The landmark Music 2 and later Music 4 projects put the two concepts together as early as 1957-–the computer and music had a future and Max was there for the birth.
Max had moved on to musical programming when Don Buchla and Robert Moog created similar electronic music in the form of the synthesizer. As a Stanford University professor, Max worked with his close friend John Chowning for several decades on a number of programs including the technology used for Yamaha's DX7.