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Garritan Announces Gofriller Solo Cello, Concert & Marching Band Library, and More 

Garritan announced a handful of new products at the NAMM Show this past week: the Gofriller Solo Cello, the Concert & Marching Band Library, and the Personal Orchestra Soundware Library for Mackie Tracktion 3. ...

Vienna Symphonic Library Bösendorfer 290 Imperial and Vienna Konzerthaus Organ 

Releasing its first collections of sampled keyboard instruments, the Vienna Symphonic Library announces the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial and the Vienna Konzerthaus Organ....

ARTURIA Prophet-V 1.0 (Mac/Win) 

By Jim Aikin

The Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, which debuted in 1978, was the world's first fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer. Although the Prophet-5's total...

KV331 Audio Releases SynthMaster 

One of the most appealing things about KV331 Audio's SynthMaster is its price: free (or very affordable, depending on which version you get). SynthMaster (Windows; $0-$99) is a semimodular software synthesizer and multi-effects plug-in available in VST, VSTi, RTAS, and standalone formats. ...

HARM VISSER
Creative Physical Modeling Toolbox for Reaktor 5
 

By Dennis Miller

Noted sound designer Harm Visser has released an impressive set of Reaktor Ensembles that use physical modeling in a variety of ways. Creative Physical...

AUDEON 

By Len Sasso

One look at its control panel will tell you that UFO 1.0 ($139) is no ordinary synth. Its overlapping brushed-metal modules, lightning-bolt signal-path...

Software Eighty-Eights 

By Charlie Otwell, Marshall Otwell, and Len Sasso

Sampled-piano virtual instruments and the computers that host them have come a long way. The world's best pianos have been recorded by outstanding engineers,...

FXPANSION Guru 1.0.2 (Mac/Win) 

By Marty Cutler

Considering the remarkable number of rhythm-oriented loop sequencers, drum machine hybrids, samplers, and various permutations thereof, it is surprising...

TOONTRACK 

By Pete Prown

EZdrummer ($179) is a software drum module that offers high-quality samples in the tradition of Toontrack's flagship dfh (Drums from Hell) Superior. Sporting...

WHAT'S NEW 

By Geary Yelton

Focusrite Liquid Mix Liquid Mix (Mac, $1,099) is a 32-channel DSP host from Focusrite (www.focusrite.com) that emulates modern and vintage compressors...

WAY OUT WARE TimewARP 2600 1.15 (Mac/Win) 

By Larry the O

The ARP 2600 has been one of the most revered synthesizers in electronic music since its introduction in 1971, a scant few months after the Minimoog's...

APPLIED ACOUSTICS SYSTEMS
   String Studio VS-1 1.0.1 (Mac/Win)
 

By Len Sasso

Physical modeling of acoustic instruments has finally reached the desktop and even the laptop, now that personal computers can handle the required calculations...

NUSOFTING 

By Len Sasso

Modelonia ($79) is the latest synth from physical-modeling expert Luigi Felici of NUSofting. It combines two physical models plucked string and blown...

THE MUSICROW GROUP 

By Len Sasso

Crow Gold Pack 1.1 ($119) is a suite of 26 instrument and effects Ensembles for Native Instruments Reaktor 5. Most of the Ensembles can be purchased separately,...

Cultural Diversity 

By Geary Yelton

Global commerce and the World Wide Web have connected musicians from different cultures as never before. Recordings made on six of seven continents and...

SYNTHOGY Ivory 1.5 (Mac/Win) 

By Geary Yelton

No matter what kind of music you listen to and play, you probably appreciate the sound of a fine acoustic piano. As an electronic musician, you may also...

LINPLUG VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS
Octopus 1.1.1
 

By Len Sasso

LinPlug Virtual Instruments has garnered a well-deserved reputation for producing great-sounding instruments with out-of-the-ordinary architectures. Its...

MUSICLAB RealGuitar 2L 

By Marty Cutler

Acoustic rhythm guitar parts aren't easily played from a keyboard. Guitaristic chord voicings can be finger busters when laid out on a keyboard, to say...

BIG FISH AUDIO Raging Guitars 

By Marty Cutler

Anyone who has attempted to accurately sample, loop, and voice distorted and overdriven electric guitars can attest to the difficulty of the task. Strumming,...

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS 

By Doug Eisengrein

With the release of B4 II ($229; upgrade, $99), Native Instruments has substantially improved its already stellar Hammond B-3 and Leslie emulation, B4....

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