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. ...
Releasing its first collections of sampled keyboard instruments, the Vienna Symphonic Library announces the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial and the Vienna Konzerthaus Organ....
The Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, which debuted in 1978, was the world's first fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer. Although the Prophet-5's total...
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. ...
Noted sound designer Harm Visser has released an impressive set of Reaktor Ensembles that use physical modeling in a variety of ways. Creative Physical...
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...
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,...
Considering the remarkable number of rhythm-oriented loop sequencers, drum machine hybrids, samplers, and various permutations thereof, it is surprising...
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...
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...
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...
Physical modeling of acoustic instruments has finally reached the desktop and even the laptop, now that personal computers can handle the required calculations...
Modelonia ($79) is the latest synth from physical-modeling expert Luigi Felici of NUSofting. It combines two physical models plucked string and blown...
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,...
Global commerce and the World Wide Web have connected musicians from different cultures as never before. Recordings made on six of seven continents and...
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 has garnered a well-deserved reputation for producing great-sounding instruments with out-of-the-ordinary architectures. Its...
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...
Anyone who has attempted to accurately sample, loop, and voice distorted and overdriven electric guitars can attest to the difficulty of the task. Strumming,...
With the release of B4 II ($229; upgrade, $99), Native Instruments has substantially improved its already stellar Hammond B-3 and Leslie emulation, B4....
ARTURIA Prophet-V 1.0 (Mac/Win)
Software Eighty-Eights
TOONTRACK
NUSOFTING
THE MUSICROW GROUP
Cultural Diversity
SYNTHOGY Ivory 1.5 (Mac/Win)
BIG FISH AUDIO Raging Guitars
