PC and Music News

Stretch That Note Releases EPIC an electro percussion and orchestral hits module.
EPIC is a suite of six hard-hitting electro-percussion and orchestral kits driven by a Kontakt-compatible engine featuring four unique Warping Machines.

However, like all STN products, EPIC's real power lies in the layering process – you can stack and layer any of the EPIC modules and drumm kits to create really BIG sounds. EPIC – not only an electro-percussive sound module/sample library with effects and Warping Machines.

Waviary is a new, interactive musical artwork that is part instrument, part generative ambient music machine, and part virtual wind chimes.
Simple multi-touch control allows anyone to effortlessly create lush ambient soundscapes and environments, or simply listen as Waviary generates its own "forest-like" sonic environments. The generative player can run while you play as well, allowing for a randomized ambient jam session.

Pitch control and octave up/down controls allow for fast sound manipulation, creating varied textures and ambiences.

Powered by iZotope's visual feedback technology, Iris lets you unearth a world of sounds you've never heard before.

Delve into Iris's spectrogram to extract, layer, manipulate, and discover new sounds from within any audio file. With extended synthesis features, hundreds of presets, and 4 GB of source material, Iris is an impressive tool for sound design, musical inspiration, and sonic experimentation.

Crysonic today released their new version of SPECTRA C2 Wideband Audio Compressor. SPECTRA C2 will is available for both PC & Mac.

SPECTRA C2 is a Non-Transparent Compressor which is to say it imparts subtle but very desirable analog characteristics to any signal being processed.

Demo version of SPECTRA C2 for PC & Mac OSX is also available $55, then the price will be $159RRP. All previous crysonic customers can purchase Spectra C2 at a greatly discounted price.

Twenty years after introducing the world's first neodymium powered guitar and bass pickups, the Q-tuner company announched the forthcoming launch of the new Q2.0 silver line pickups.

The neodymium Q2.0 pickups feature silver colored coils being wound using Swiss made magnet wire especially designed for ultra-high frequency applications. The wire is silver plated in a ratio of 30 gr. Ag/1 Kg. CU.

The second synth to get the Zenhiser treatment is Lennar Digital's Sylenth, an epic synth with incredible sound and clarity.

'Sylenth Minimal Tech' takes over where Lennar Digital left off and delivers an amazing aray of minimal tech presets and banks. With just over 100 presets encapsulating the deeper and more eclectic sound of minimal tech, these Sylenth presets come into a world of their own.