iZotope Iris | Powerful Sonic Experimentation & Sound Design Virtual Instrument

Driven by iZotope’s award-winning visual selection technology, iZotope Iris is a groundbreaking sample-based synthesizer that harnesses the power of both your eyes and your ears. iZotope Iris is perfect for musical inspiration and sonic experimentation and allows you to explore the spectral details of your audio, extract and isolate the most interesting sonic components and combine the unthinkable. Automatic root note detection means you can keep your new combination of noises, textures, soundscapes and even mistakes sounding musical, plus, thanks to iZotope´s world class reverbs, distortions and delays, you can enhance and invigorate your sounds.

Steinberg New Releases | Dark Planet VST Sound Instrument Set

Dark Planet is the new VST Sound Instrument Set launched by Steinberg. It is loaded with hundreds of creepy sounds, shattering loops and eerie instruments including leads, basses, drums or effects. Steinberg’s Dark Planet VST Sound Instrument Set is suitable for cinematic scores and also for industrial music productions or dark ambient tracks. The integrated MorphFilter and the onboard effects provide everything needed to add spine-tingling ingredients to your productions and fuel your fantasies with the gloom of the Dark Planet.

Native Instruments announces Damage

Native Instruments has released Damage, a new virtual instruments library that brings breathtaking cinematic percussion with a tense, epic edge. Native Instruments Damage is created by Heavyocity and it is powered by latest Kontakt 5 Audio Engine. Two years of recording and sound design is packed in Damage. In numbers, Native Instruments Damage is gathering over 25,000 individual samples recorded in 24bit/96Kz using state-of-the-art equipment, resulting in 30 GB of source material. Sounds and effects were captured in a variety of locations ranging from various high-end studios to a Connecticut Junkyard, and comprise all possible types of percussion from traditional instruments to exploding cars and cranes dropping objects from great heights.

Arturia announces Oberheim SEM V

Arturia announces Oberheim SEM V, the virtual emulator of Synthesizer Expander Module introduced by Oberheim in 1974. So, the legend now returns as a high-end software, packed as Oberheim SEM V, and gathering all the advantages of the Arturia TAE technology. Faithfully reproducing the tone, waveshapes, multimode 12dB/octave filter and other detailed characteristics, Arturia Oberheim SEM V brings the polyphony, MIDI control, arpeggiation and some innovative functionalities such as the 8-voice programmer.

Updates & Upgrades | Arturia Minimoog goes to Version 2.5

Arturia announces the update for Minimoog V to Version 2.5. Arturia Minimoog V is now compatible with 64BitHosts but this is not the only one addition.

Arturia Minimoog V2.5 New Features

# Support for 64-bit VST and Audio Unit
# Support for Pro Tools 9
# MIDI Control Assignment Improvement
# Update of toolbar look and feel
# Added support for NRPN MIDI controls
# Added triangle LFO waveform

DNR Collaborative releases MixControl Pro

DNR Collaborative MixControl Pro is a complete high-quality, professional channelstrip with a unique sound that offers flexible module processing, pristine audio quality and a combination of useful new features. MixControl Pro has 2 separate professionally designed interface layouts, created by Anders Hedstrom (aka LimeFlavour) to allow users of different screen sizes and workflows to benefit from.

MixControl Pro builds on the solid foundation known in the original MixControl by adding many useful aesthetic and functional enhancements such as extremely high-quality oversampling, 2 new professional UI layouts, 3
unique analog-style saturation modes, and a much more responsive FFT analyzer. Gate mixing, sub-preset loading modules and quick mouse controls round out the new workflow enhancements to enable you to work faster and smarter to get the perfect mix for your project.

MOTU introduces Mach Five 3, their next version of the Machfive Sampler software

MOTU announces Mach Five 3, the newest version of their Machfive Sampler Software. Rebuild from the ground up, the all new Motu Mack Five 3 delivers state-of-the-art virtual instrument technology to your desktop studio.

Hamburg Audio releases Nuklear Pulsar Train Synthesizer | The first plugin synthesizer based on advanced – pulsar – synthesis

Hamburg Audio Nuklear comes with unique pulsar oscillators and enriches classic sound synthesis with essential new parameters: by disassociating the note pitch from the waveform length it is possible to create new, previously unheard sounds. As opposed to classic sound synthesis not the waveform length, but solely its repetition rate is responsible for the resulting pitch. The length of the individual “pulsaret grains” is controlled and modulated by a separate parameter, the “pulsaret frequency”.

Native Instruments Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate are now available

The world’s leading pro studio bundle of instruments and effects is now available for purchase, so make your choice: Komplete 8 – the quintessential production package or Komplete 8 Ultimate, the whole range of Komplete Instruments and Effects on a dedicated hard drive for easy installation.

Steinberg News | Halion has been updated to version 4.0.1

Steinberg released the 4.0.1 maintenance update to its VST sampler and sound creation system, HALion 4. The update resolves several issues and improves the overall stability of HALion 4

What’s new in version 4.0.1 of Steinberg Halion

Issues that occurred when individual MegaTrig modules of a program were disabled have been corrected.
An issue that appeared when undoing paste on a program that is already assigned to a slot has been corrected.
CoreAudio2ASIO has been updated to correct issues with some USB devices.
Missing presets of the REVerence reverb have been added.
Issues when loading programs into the program table after selecting something within the program tree have been corrected.
Issues within FL Studio 10 that cause the message “There was an error getting the state of the VST 3 pluggin HALion 4. The state wasn’t saved” have been corrected.
Issues that occurred when “Auto Visibility” was enabled have been corrected.
Changes on the program layer (level/pan/tune) won’t affect any programs in subsequent slots any more.