PC and Music News

Sounds And Effects' Hidden Objects Percussion is now 25% OFF until the end of November,
and in addition to the versions for Reason and Kontakt, there are now versions for EXS24 and .wav audio.

AudioThing has released Pipes for Mac OS X and Windows in AudioUnit and VST formats.
Pipes is a collection of instruments derived from a variety of cardboard tubes, aluminum spray cans, dreamcatchers, and PVC pipes. Even if the pitch of most of the sources is not stable, all instruments were manually tuned. Each instrument features from 3 to 6 Round Robin samples and up to 3 velocity layers. One of the main instruments is a sampled Wah Wah Tube (aka Vibratone): bell-like sound with a very long release and a dedicated control for overtones.

Details:
- 34 Instruments
- Up to 6 Round Robin samples
- Up to 3 Velocity layers
- 188 Samples (44.1kHz / 24-bit)
- Size MAC: 215 MB / PC: 128 MB
- Formats: AU and VST (32/64-bit)
- Platforms: OS X, Windows
- Sample sets including: beer cans, cardboards, corrugated pipes, dreamcatchers, long PVC pipe, spray cans, vibratone

Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.6 Intel or later
- Windows XP or later

Price: €12. Pipes is available for the introductory price of €10 until November 27th, 2013.

Non-standard Upright Pianos

4 Pianos Bundle introduces an interesting collection of non-standard, hard-mangled and abnormal recorded pianos.
Included are the legendary Rolfing Laid Back (Volume 1 & 2), a collection of prepared piano sounds captured from a rotten piano that once was pulled out of an abandoned backyard building.
Also included is the Day Time Traffic Piano which is an upright that was recorded in an apartment at a major street in Berlin during rush hour. The windows of the apartment were kept open so that a proper portion of traffic noise made its way into these sounds.
At least there is another Upright Piano that is hosted in a little club right beside a car repair shop. This Piano has undergone numerous Jazz & Blues sessions throughout the decades.

specifications
- Format: Ableton Live Pack
- Compatibility: PC/Mac, Live 8/9
- Instruments: 27
- No. of samples: 782
- Disk space: 1.6 GB

4 Pianos Bundle is available to purchase as download for 29.00 Euro.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH today announced the UR44 audio interface, a six-in, four-out audio interface that will be available in January 2014, further extending the UR range of USB 2.0 interfaces.

With up to 192 kHz and 24-bit audio quality, MIDI input/output, Class-A D-PRE microphone preamps and its class-compliant mode for iPad use, the UR44 is a portable production studio with ample connectivity choices.

ChordPolyPad updated to 1.1

New features:

- Audiobus support
- Velocity detection for pads
- Chords edit
- Hold mode
- Fixed value for real time velocity mode
- Recording chords from Midi
- Virtual Midi ports simplified
- Longer strumming.

Electrified and Pure Acoustic Special Edition Guitar Libraries are now 1/3 off for a limited time.