PC and Music News

Exactly 25 years ago today marks the founding of EASTWEST, the world's premier producer of virtual instruments! To celebrate this silver anniversary, EASTWEST releases Hollywood Strings Silver and Hollywood Brass Silver as downloads today.

The price for these editions is $199 each, which is an incredible bargain given the critical acclaim this series has received, and the fact the Gold and Diamond versions are in wide use by top composers. The Silver editions allow students and those who are on a tight budget or use average computers to work with sound quality and detail only known from movies and professional recordings.

Native Instruments today released HELIOS RAY – a new MASCHINE Expansion providing sounds and beats drawing from London's broken beat scene and LA's abstract beat producers.

Containing three separate styles of drum kits as well as unique Melodic Kits and new MASSIVE presets, HELIOS RAY is out now for MASCHINE and MASCHINE MIKRO, with a compact version for iMASCHINE also now available as an in-app purchase via the Apple App Store.

COSMOSƒ gives to the hands of the sound designer for the first time a 2D / 3D preset morphing mechanism.

Up to 4 different preset parameter space can be morphed by traveling inside a 3D sphere by adjusting the polar coordinates within a unique interface design.

123creative Releases Apple Emagic Logic ES2 volume1.
64 patches, including leads, sequence sounds, plucks, basses and pads! Suitable for any kind of electronic dance music creations. Many of the logic users won't realize how powerful this synth is, but here is a prove what it can do. Have a listen!
22 different sounds used in this demo. All sounds from ES2 synthesizer, reverb from TC Electronic VSS3 and delay from Apple Logic.

Expect to hear Solid "In the pocket" Backbeats and Deep Bubbly Basses which when combined create tight funky rhythm sections that allow Lush Atmospheric Melodies to take centre stage for truly powerful Deep House productions.

Classic Deep House is the perfect fusion of Old School Flavours meeting with Nu School Production and is a worthy collection of Copyright Free samples for any producer working in and around any House music styles.

Voxengo Voxformer version 2.8 update is now available for download. Voxengo Voxformer is a multi-functional vocal channel strip plugin 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.

New features in V 2.8:
- The EQ curve is now hidden when the equalizer is set to "Off".
- Spectrum mode presets are now shared between all Voxengo plug-ins.