A comprehensive collection of rare and sought-after synths expanded with more models, stunning new sonic accuracy and the deepest editing yet
This is a massively enhanced successor to the previous release, adding 11 legendary synths, exciting new, advanced, and much-requested functionality, and a huge number of all-new presets for the 22 original synths taking advantage of all these new features.
A collection like no other
Syntronik 2 offers 33 synths in all, available in 4 different versions or as individual instruments. There are over 5,500 presets that cover a wide range of sounds from 54 of the most iconic to ultra-rare vintage synthesizers. For fans of the original version, all of the Syntronik and Syntronik Deluxe legacy presets are also included and sound identical in Syntronik 2.
4 synths are better than 1
An easy-to-use layering interface lets users quickly map and play up to 4 different synthesizer parts simultaneously, as well as create advanced splits for maximum flexibility and live performance, while a brand-new controller for Syntronik 2 offers detailed filtering of sustain, PB, MW, and AT per part for unparalleled sound design.
New advanced Edit panel
Syntronik 2 adds a new Edit panel with many new user-requested features. There are per-oscillator DRIFT controls, extended envelopes, and LFOs along with a programmable modulation matrix. Plus a new Wave Set Browser that lets users choose the sound for each of up to 4 oscillators and 2 sub oscillators per preset for a new level of sound design.
DRIFT™ technology
IK’s DRIFT technology varies the phase, color, and pitch of the sampled oscillators to keep them moving just like the real analog oscillators do. Much more than simple detuning or even multiple-source modulation, DRIFT emulates the way real analog circuits behave over time. The result is the unmistakable sound of analog that is the soul of any classic synthesizer sound.
An arsenal of effects
Syntronik 2 comes with 71 exciting effects derived from IK’s popular T-RackS 5 mix and mastering suite, MixBox processors, and AmpliTube 5 guitar workstation. Up to 5 effects can be simultaneously inserted on every instrument via a “lunchbox-style” interface, which offers immediate visualization and editing of every parameter from within a single, convenient location.
Dynamic arpeggiators
The 4 synthesizer parts in Syntronik 2 feature a powerful note and chord arpeggiator, each with its own assignable range and settings as well as the ability to store them for instant recall. Along with a new step sequencer, this allows users to build complex rhythmic textures and sequences with extreme ease and inspiring effectiveness.
Find sounds faster
An advanced browser offers fast and convenient navigation of Syntronik 2’s vast library of presets to let users find the right sounds in an instant. Content can be browsed by instrument or single sounds. Searches can be refined using keywords and sorted by category, character, and type. Users can also rate their favorite sounds to find them in a flash.
Fill the tank
Individual sounds from Syntronik 2 can be seamlessly read by SampleTank 4* and used together with IK’s ever-growing number of acoustic and electronic instruments. Build complete soundtracks for any style of music within SampleTank alongside new collections such SampleTron 2, Cinekinetik, Electromagnetik, and many more.
Try it for free
Syntronik 2 CS is the fully functional and expandable FREE version of Syntronik 2 with 100 instrument presets, 2.4 GB of sound content, 71 effects, 4 Parts, Multis and arpeggiators. Used as a plug-in or standalone virtual instrument, it lets users explore an array of iconic synthesizers.
Pricing and availability
Syntronik 2 is available from the IK Multimedia online store and from IK authorized dealers worldwide at special limited-time introductory prices:
Syntronik 2 SE $/€99.99** (reg. $/€149.99) – an accessibly priced version offering 11 synths, 1,000 presets and 13 GB of sounds.
Syntronik 2 $/€199.99 (reg. $/€299.99) – 22 synths, over 4,000 presets and 80 GB of sounds, powered by a state-of-the-art new audio engine.
Syntronik 2 MAX $/€299.99 (reg. $/€399.99) – all 33 synths, over 5,500 presets and 210 GB of sounds for a comprehensive synth collection.
Special pricing
Owners of qualifying IK products can log in to their IK user account and add Syntronik 2 MAX to cart to see the special crossgrade and upgrade pricing available to them.
Special offers
For a limited time, purchasers of Total Studio 3.5 MAX or Total VI MAX will receive Syntronik 2 for FREE.
**All pricing excluding taxes.
For more information about Syntronik 2 or to see it in action, please visit:
SAN CLEMENTE, CA, USA: world-class sound collections developer/licensor Q Up Arts is proud to team up with charity-supporting digital content seller Humble Bundle to offer BOOM! ROYALTY-FREE SOUNDS, MUSIC, and AUDIO — an amazing software bundle of music and sounds cherry-picked from its catalog of award-winning titles, bolstered by Global Delight’s Boom 3D™, as a three-week offering permitting purchase on a three-tiered buying structure starting at only $1 USD — as of November 18…
As an amazing — and amazingly-priced! — software bundle, BOOM! ROYALTY-FREE SOUNDS, MUSIC, and AUDIO brings about a selection of music clips, grooves, beats, and stems cherry-picked from 22 award-winning Q Up Arts titles and also its new series of royalty-fee music clips called Q Space Music, with over 900 tracks and files weighing in at a whopping 7.4GB of pro-level audio. As
such, it includes Benny Bass – Bass + Percussion Loops Fusion V1, Benny Bass – Bass + Percussion Loops More Fusion V2, Increased Velocity – Whooshes Hits Loops Music Pack, Pop Strings UK – Beats Song Pack, Pop Strings UK – Bittersweet Song Pack, Pop Strings UK – Call The Detective Song Pack, Pop Strings UK – Coming Home Song Pack, Pop Strings UK – Complete Song Pack, Pop Strings UK – Gotham Saved Song Pack, Pop Strings UK – Greater Good Song Pack, Pop Strings UK – Liberty Hall Song Pack, Pop Strings UK – Rolling Hills Song Pack, Q Space V1 – Action Music Pack, Q Space V2 – EDM Music Pack, Q Space V3 – Rock Music Pack, Q Space V4 – Adventure Music Pack, Q Space V5 – Groovy Music Pack, Q Space V6 – Funky Music Pack, Steve Gadd Drumscores – Drum Loops V1, Steve Gadd Drumscores – Drum Loops V2, Voices Of India – Sitar Loops Music Pack, and Voices Of Native America – Drums Flute Vox Music Pack. “We’ve chosen a great cross-section of material from our award-winning catalog,” declares Douglas Morton, Q Up Arts’ President.
Bolstered by Udupi, India-based leading-edge, award-winning cross-platform audio, video, and photography applications creator Global Delight’s Boom 3D™, itself an award-winning pro audio enhancement app for Mac and Windows — designed to play media content with incredible 3D effects on any headphones, from any player and any media or streaming services, there has never been a better time than now to purchase BOOM! ROYALTY-FREE SOUNDS, MUSIC, and AUDIO on a three-tiered buying structure starting at only $1 USD. Ultimately, purchasers can take pride in doing so, safe in the knowledge that they are assisting the Humble Bundle community that has contributed over $200 million USD to charity since 2010, making an amazing difference to causes all over the world.
BOOM! ROYALTY-FREE SOUNDS, MUSIC, and AUDIO can currently be digitally downloaded directly from Humble Bundle as a three-week offering permitting purchase on a three-tiered buying structure starting at only $1 USD from here: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/boom-royalty-free-sounds-music-audio
About Q Up Arts (www.quparts.com)
Hitting its 30th anniversary in 2022, Q Up Arts’ fingerprints have made their musical mark throughout the music industry with sounds used across the globe by the likes of Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, The Cure, U2, and Yes. Indeed, its virtual instrument sounds are programmed in hardware and software music-making instruments from E-Mu, Korg, Native Instruments, Simmons Electronic Drums, Williams Pianos, and Yamaha. Yet it is always looking forward with its new Q Space Music imprint debuting with the first titles grouped by genre, each featuring loop-able song mixes ideal for film, game, or video production.
About Humble Bundle Inc. (www.humblebundle.com)
Humble Bundle sells games, ebooks, software, and other digital content, forging a path for indie developers to have a platform for their projects and voices since 2010. Indeed, it has been — and always will be — a priority for Humble Bundle to build bridges between indie video games and consumers, all while pursuing the universal desire to be a force for good. Therefore, the combined efforts of Humble Bundle with its supportive developers and enthusiastic community has amounted to over $200 million USD raised for charity to date. It is in its DNA, influencing every decision made since its inception.
© 2020 Q Up Arts.com, LLC
New update leverages the unique features of IK’s award-winning monitorsto bring enhanced performance for surround sound systems
Immersive audio, anywhere
With the explosion of Atmos® and other immersive audio systems, studios of all sizes need to implement multichannel monitoring, from 5.1 to 7.1.4 and beyond. iLoud MTM offers powerful features that make it the ideal multichannel partner.
Readily adjusts to any positioning
iLoud MTM’s built-in ARC self-calibration means it adjusts in seconds to any placement at the press of a button, including ceiling-mounting, correcting their output to ensure the most precise, balanced sound from every position, without struggling with placement and spacing.
Point-source sound at any distance
iLoud MTM is ideal for multichannel installations being linear phase and having a point-source emission that’s very accurate at any distance. This minimizes the inaccuracies conventional speakers introduce in the imaging, which is critical for multichannel and immersive setups.
Reduced acoustic interaction
iLoud MTM’s midwoofer-tweeter-midwoofer design boasts dramatically more controlled vertical dispersion than typical designs. This minimizes the speakers’ interaction with room acoustics (and each other), making them ideal for rooms not custom-tuned for surround audio.
Lighter and smaller
Just as importantly, iLoud MTM monitors make setting up a multichannel rig easy. At 30 – 50% smaller and lighter than comparable studio monitors, users will find setup a breeze in any size room.
For more information about iLoud MTM studio monitors or to see them in action, please visit:
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, November 18, 2021. FabFilter is proud to announce the immediate availability of FabFilter Volcano 3, the latest version of its award-winning filter plug-in. Volcano 3 sees the introduction of a completely reimagined interface, a raft of new vintage-style filter shapes, pre-filter saturation control, full visualization of modulation sources and targets, and much more. With its smooth workflow, no-limits flexibility, and dazzlingly authentic analog sound, it’s the first-call plugin for creative filtering.
FabFilter has redesigned Volcano 3 from the ground up to make it more intuitive and immediate, while at the same time introducing a wealth of new features, and dramatically improving visualization of audio and modulation signals. The new filter display speeds up workflow with the selection of multiple filters at once and presents a unified response curve with stereo separation, as well as a high-resolution spectrum display. Modulation signals are now visualized at both sources and targets with animated collars, while the source flow area gives an eye-catching overview of all active modulations, and floating slot panels enable collective balancing of all sources modulating the currently selected control. The darker color scheme is easier on the eye over long sessions, and when it’s time to really get into details, the gorgeous new full-screen mode maximizes the filtering workspace.
“I’m excited to hear these sounds applied to audiovisual narratives, whether bringing a specific character to life, conveying emotion, or adding atmosphere to a scene; their abstract nature makes them well suited to sound design, too.”
– Concepción Huerta (multidisciplinary sound artist), 2021
LONDON, UK: Spitfire Audio is proud to announce the availability of MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIóN HUERTA – ESTáTICA — Guatemalan-born cellist and composer Mabe Fratti and Mexican multidisciplinary sound artist Concepción Huerta’s first sample library for the sound-specializing British music technology company created at the same time and in the same space as a four-track EP of the same name released on SA Recordings, the London-based label owned by Spitfire Audio, featuring unorthodox cello techniques, analog synthesizers, and vocal-based pads, as well as atmospheric industrial warps and highly visceral, abstract textures that have been distorted, deconstructed, and pushed to their limits using the artists’ enviable pedal collections and bespoke tape processing techniques, tastefully served up in Spitfire Audio’s award-winning proprietary plug-in, perfectly compatible with any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) — as of November 11…
As a sample library like no other, MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIóN HUERTA – ESTáTICA expands upon its name-checked creators’ EP of the
same name with a range of inbuilt sound-sculpting controls — namely, expression, dynamics (processed signal), REVERB, ATTACK, RELEASE, CHORUS, FLANGER, and PHASER — combining to offer a dynamic sonic palette providing an exciting range of possibilities within a single patch. Picking up, briefly, on that dynamics slider, since it controls an inbuilt processed signal, curated by the artists themselves, starting with the dry signal and bringing in pre-programmed effects unique to each individual preset, users can quickly make MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIóN HUERTA – ESTáTICA sound like they want it to.
There are 32 presets, split into four sections: Cello (13) — created from Mabe Fratti’s wide range of distinctively haunting cello techniques, ranging from soft bowing to aggressive-sounding bowed effects and bending strings, skilfully capturing the raw character of the instrument itself, while also pushing it to its limits, awash in a sea of reverb and distortion to achieve alien-like drones, as well as tones reminiscent of an electric guitar; Tape (11) — taking in all kinds of atmospheric tape processing from Concepción Huerta, such as hissing and old radio signal-like sounds, with room for further experimentation; Vocals (4) — comprising organic vocal performances and granular, processed vocal-based pads, all of which lend themselves well to composers looking to add a human touch to their compositions to achieve sounds that other instruments cannot quite capture; and Warps (4) — atmospheric and orchestral-based offerings, providing extra layers to add more depth and texture to anyone’s compositions.
Creativity far from stops there, thanks to the included seven bespoke IR (Impulse Response) reverbs, ranging from Kiln to Church Balcony, blending perfectly with the already stunning sound of those textures from the boundary-pushing experimentalists that are their name-checked creators, while velocity-sensitivity for tone variance is an absolute given.
Getting those tones into MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIóN HUERTA – ESTáTICA was far from as easy as playing with the end results. Rethinking approaches to cello, voice, and effects, the sounds showcase Mabe Fratti and Concepción Huerta’s bespoke DIY instrumentation, including a range of classic analog synths, such as Roland’s highly-prized early-Eighties-vintage JUNO-60 and JUNO-106 (programmable polysynths), as well as the cellist’s self-designed pedalboard featuring a late-Sixties-vintage Ace Tone Acetone Fuzz Master FM-2 (octave fuzz) and late-Seventies-vintage ProCo Big Box RAT V1 (distortion), alongside more modern-day stompboxes, such as an Eventide Space (reverb), Boss OC-3 Super Octave (octaver), and Line6 DL4 (programmable delay and loop sampler). Creativity continued courtesy of Concepción Huerta’s chain of pedals and musical machinery both old(er) and new(er), including her beloved TASCAM Portastudio — the first four-track recorder based on a standard compact audio cassette tape, multiple cassette tape players, a custom-made fuzz pedal, Roland SP-404 (sampling workstation), Moog MoogerFooger MF-102 (ring modulator), and Moog Slim Phatty (analog monosynth).
Saying that, then, when the boundary-pushing experimentalists in question began to create together, they wanted to express the overwhelming sensations that the news of the world was resonating in their minds and bodies, and how small it made them feel. MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIóN HUERTA – ESTáTICA effectively reflects that notion of feeling overwhelmed and confused in the wake of a global standstill. Says Mabe Fratti: “The sounds and music we’ve created reflect the dichotomy of both meanings of the word ‘estática’ — the charge of electricity inside us, combined with the feeling of stasis and immobility that comes from being overwhelmed. That feeling when you can’t do anything and are totally stunned. A static electric signal, frozen in time.”
The resulting MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIóN HUERTA – ESTáTICA sample library itself is far from frozen in time, though, but rather expands on the namesake EP’s sonic experimentation with its range of inbuilt sound-sculpting controls, offering a dynamic sonic palette with an exciting range of possibilities available to anyone wishing to take a leaf out of the boundary-pushing experimentalists’ highly visceral, abstract textural book — or simply use it to make music of their own, not necessarily dwelling on the turbulent times we collectively found ourselves living through. After all, each of the highly evocative contrasting and characterful sounds therein are ready to breathe new life into compositions and spark ideas for new ones.
MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA – ESTÁTICA is available as an AAX-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-compatible plug-in supporting Native Instruments’ NKS (Native Kontrol Standard) for Mac (OS X 10.10 – macOS 11) and Windows (7, 8, and 10 — latest Service Pack) that loads directly into any compatible DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for an RRP (Recommended Retail Price) of only £29.00 GBP (inc. VAT)/$29.00 USD/€29.00 EUR (inc. VAT) — from here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/estatica
Mabe Fratti and Concepción Huerta’s Estática release is available to pre-order on its own as a limited-edition 12-inch colored vinyl EP for £12.99 GBP (inc. VAT) — with an estimated release date of February 28, 2022 — or bundled as a limited-edition 12-inch colored vinyl EP with the (already-available) MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA – ESTÁTICA sample library for £40.00 GBP (inc. VAT); it is already available to digitally download in 320 kbps, LAME-encoded MP3 format for £2.99 GBP (inc. VAT), 16-bit Lossless WAV / FLAC formats for £3.99 GBP (inc. VAT), or in 16-bit Lossless WAV / FLAC formats bundled with the MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA – ESTÁTICA sample library for £30.00 GBP (inc. VAT) directly from SA Recordings here: https://sarecordings.com/release/250526-mabe-fratti-concepcin-huerta-esttica
Please note that purchasers of either bundle will receive a sample library download code via e-mail within 48 hours.
Spitfire Audio’s namesake Spitfire Audio application allows anyone to buy now and download anytime and is available for free from here: http://www.spitfireaudio.com/info/library-manager/
For more in-depth information, including some superb-sounding audio demos, please visit the dedicated MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA – ESTÁTICA webpage here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/estatica
See and hear MABE FRATTI & CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA – ESTÁTICA and its namesake creators in action in its tantalizing trailer video, then take an enlightening walkthrough with Spitfire Audio ‘composer-in-residence Lucie Treacher here:
About Spitfire Audio (www.spitfireaudio.com)
Spitfire Audio is a British music technology company that specializes in sounds — sample libraries, virtual instruments, and other useful software devices. It collaborates with the best composers, artists, and engineers in the world to build musical tools that sound great and are exciting to use.
About SA Recordings (www.sarecordings.com)
As a London-based record label and music platform dedicated to songs and sounds by contemporary composers, SA Recordings’ mission is to nurture and support a sonically diverse, international roster of innovative music makers. It is committed to releasing digital and physical works, commissioning creative projects, producing limited-edition merchandise, and developing bespoke, artist-led sample libraries in collaboration with Spitfire Audio.
© 2021 Spitfire Audio Holdings Limited
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: W.A. Production, producers of high-end professional-sounding samples, instrument and effect plug-ins, DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) templates, and more, is proud to announce the availability of its MultiBender plugin — producing a tempo-synced solution to creative delay processing like no other, thanks to delicious-sounding multi-band processing and four simultaneous delay modules making for truly epic effects — as of November 10…
Multi-band madness abounds as MultiBender’s delay processing is split into three separate color-coded modules linked to the (mostly) standard — PRE DELAY (sets a pre-delay between 0 and 200 ms), TIME (adjustable in bars — S (straight), D (dotted), and T (triplets) can be selected above), FEEDBACK (sets the feedback of the main delay), HAAS (creates a stereo — Haas — effect), and MIX (acts as a common mix control for the whole plugin, allowing for parallel usage) —
controls located towards the top of the GUI (Graphical User Interface)… ‘mostly’ meaning that it is well worth noting here, however, that the Haas effect — also known as the precedence effect or law of the first wavefront — is a binaural psychoacoustic phenomenon discovered by Dr. Helmut Haas in 1949, whereby when a sound is followed by another sound separated by a sufficiently short time delay, listeners perceive a single auditory event whose spatial location is dominated by the location of the first-arriving sound. But back in the wonderful world of MultiBender, those three separate modules’ controls can all be adjusted independently by simply dragging the crossover points in the waveform display to speedily set up the frequency ranges of the three bands, then choose a delay TIME (including dotted and triplet feel), FEEDBACK level, and GAIN adjustment, allowing for a short delay for the low end and longer ones for mids and highs to effectively send them bouncing around the room. Readily available are ‘on’ and ‘off’ buttons — click- and pop-free bypass, in other words — which enable users to disable any unwanted processing in an instant, if wishing to keep their bassline tight or the midrange clean, for instance.
It is fair to say that the standard delays for each of those three bands already sound complex and expansive, but users can push the effect to the limit with Saturation, Bitcrush, and Detune effects that are also available for each band (hidden under the selection triangle), running completely independently of each other. Apply as much or as little of each process as needed to create different kinds of audio effect — think sparkling highs with saturated harmonics in the upper-frequency range, detuned midrange delay for a wavering analog feel in the body of the sound, screaming bass line with bit-crushed low end… (almost) anything is possible!
As a tried and trusted technique for adding space and width to delay adventures, the main delay’s helpful HAAS control can create a subtle stereo effect by shifting the timing offset of the left or right channel — creative delay processing like no other continues unabated.
Some say looks are everything. Exactly what is happening to each of the three bands as the audio passes through the MultiBender plugin comes courtesy of that good-looking GUI’s central window’s three colored waveforms that clearly display the effect of each module’s processing for facilitating accurate monitoring and surgical shaping at every stage of the signal chain — clearly useful feedback for keeping tabs on transformations.
The MultiBender plugin of course comes complete with an abundance of presets — perfect for finding the perfect shuffle for using with guitars, bass, drums, synths, and vocals. Virtually everything from subtle ping-pong bounces to massive-sounding room delays that literally last for days is all there for the creative taking.
To conclude: conjuring up intricate percussion patterns, wild ping-pong synths, and grooving leads is perfectly possible with just a few clicks — or even instantly if turning to one of those truly inspirational presets. Put it this way: each individual delay band making MultiBender has bespoke effects to transform boring keys into wobbly vintage progressions, or tighten up flabby bass parts with distortion and saturation for dance-floor domination! Thanks to its delicious-sounding multi-band processing and four simultaneous delay modules making for truly epic effects, W.A. Production’s MultiBender plugin is, indeed, a tempo-synced solution to creative delay processing like no other.
MultiBender is available to purchase for a time-limited introductory promo price of only $25.00 USD (representing a significant 50% saving) — rising thereafter to its regular price of $49.90 USD — as a 64-bit AAX-, AU-, VST-, and VST3-compatible plug-in for macOS (10.11 or later) and 32- or 64-bit AAX-,VST-, and VST3-compatible plug-in for Windows (7 or later) directly from W.A. Production via its dedicated webpage, which also includes an audio preview, here: https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/multibender
14-day, fully-functional trial versions of all W.A. Production plug-ins — including MultiBender — are available by signing up for an account for free here: https://www.waproduction.com/users/login
Watch W.A. Production’s must-see MultiBender introductory video — go grab a professional pair of headphones or listen through some decent monitors for the full effect — here:
About W.A. Production (www.waproduction.com)
W.A. Production was created by producer/DJ and sound designer Redhead Roman in 2014. Helpfully, his deep-rooted passion for EDM (Electronic Dance Music) and time spent in the music industry ignited a desire to put top-tier audio products into the hands of every electronic music producer at prices that they could actually afford. By building its initial reputation on delivering high-end professional-sounding samples, the six-strong team of today has hurriedly matured into boasting a successful brand that offers instrument and effect plug-ins, DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) templates, informative articles, and exclusive interviews with some of the hottest EDM artists around, alongside e-books and tutorials, as well as online video courses. It is also recognized for practicing a ‘hands-on’ style of customer support and service, ensuring that every customer’s experience is a great one. On the face of it, then, that Roman and his talented team remain extremely humble and interactive with their customers, members, and the EDM scene as a whole to this day is an amazing attribute in itself since W.A. Production has experienced substantial growth — growth that is constantly being expanded still further by testing boundaries, pushing creativity and innovation to new heights. Indeed, it is all driven daily by asking themselves the same question: “What about making your sound better?”
© 2021 W.A. Production
Total Studio 3.5 MAX is the freshly updated and most extensive edition yet of IK’s popular software suite for music creation and production, while Total VI MAX is brand new and the most complete collection ever focusing solely on virtual instruments.
Total Studio 3.5 MAX
In addition to the huge collection of gear from the previous release, version 3.5 adds SampleTron 2, 8 new SampleTank libraries from Electromagnetik and Cinekinetik, all 4 virtual X-GEAR pedals for AmpliTube 5 along with 6 new T-RackS modules, including FAME Studio Reverb*, Comprexxor and the complete TASCAM Tape Collection.
*Availability coming soon
These products join AmpliTube 5, T-RackS Sunset Sound Studio Reverb, MODO BASS, and all of IK’s latest and most sought-after music creation software. With a massive 143 products in all, Total Studio 3.5 MAX covers every stage of music production: composing, producing, designing, mixing, mastering, and performing.
And with over 470 GB of rich, authentic sounds plus 497 ultra-realistic FX, Total Studio 3.5 MAX is the most comprehensive all-in-one solution for creating music in virtually any style.
Total VI MAX
Total VI MAX is IK’s most complete collection dedicated to Virtual Instruments, a collection that was previously only available as part of Total Studio MAX. Ranging from bass and drums to a huge variety of keyboards and orchestral sounds, every virtual instrument from Total Studio 3.5 MAX is here.
The collection packs over 15,500 instruments, including IK’s SampleTank 4 MAX with 16 additional libraries, new SampleTron 2, Miroslav Philharmonik 2, and Syntronik Deluxe, which all work equally as standalone applications or as libraries inside SampleTank 4. Plus there’s Hammond B-3X, MODO DRUM, and MODO BASS.
MAXtacular savings
To celebrate the release of Total Studio 3.5 MAX and Total VI MAX, IK Multimedia is offering special introductory pricing on both bundles as well as significant savings on other MAX collections. Through November 30, users can save up to 50% on SampleTank 4 MAX, T-RackS 5 MAX, and AmpliTube 5 MAX. To learn more, please visit:
www.ikmultimedia.com/news/?id=
Pricing and availability
Total Studio 3.5 MAX and Total VI MAX are available now for purchase from the IK Multimedia online store and from IK authorized dealers worldwide at a special limited-time introductory price of $/€599.99** (reg. $/€1099.99) for Total Studio 3.5 MAX and $/€399.99** (reg. $/€699.99) for Total VI MAX.
Special pricing
Owners of qualifying IK products can log in to their IK user account and add any of the above MAX collections to the cart to see an exclusive discount*** at check-out.
**All pricing excluding taxes. Intro pricing ends November 30, 2021.
***Exclusive discounts cannot be combined with JamPoints.
For more information about Total Studio 3.5 MAX and to see it in action, please visit:
www.ikmultimedia.com/ts3 and www.ikmultimedia.com/ts3/video
For more information about Total VI MAX, please visit:
www.ikmultimedia.com/totalvi and www.ikmultimedia.com/totalvi/
Paris, November 10th, 2021 – UVI release Quadra: Metal & Wood, a creative 4-part instrument and sequence
designer focused on resonant wood and metallic sounds. Draw from a huge number of multi-sampled
metal and wood sound sources to create dynamic, rhythmic, and evolving sequences with a focused and
intuitive workflow, powerful 64-step arpeggiator and phrase sequencer, expressive performance controls, a
deep factory library, and more. Quadra: Metal & Wood is available now, with a special introductory price of
$99 / 99€ through November 21st, 2021 (regularly $149 / 149€).
Quadra: Metal & Wood is a versatile instrument, capable of a wide range of applications from standard
fare instrumentation to evolving, complex, and adaptive progressions and harmonizations that can
be morphed and performed in numerous ways to suit productions of any style. Loaded with a huge
selection of bells, gongs, keyboards, mallets, musical toys, synthesizers, and resonant wood and metal
instruments, users are free to explore and create complex layered voices, adaptive progressions, and
dazzling sequences with a focused and inspiring toolset.
Designed to be immediately creative, Quadra series instruments deliver 4 completely customizable
instrument layers with mappable key zones, XY and dynamics morphing, envelopes, multimode filters,
audio effects including frequency shifter, waveshaper, chorus, phaser, EQ, drive, tremolo, and vibrato, an
advanced 64-step arpeggiator and phrase sequencer with MIDI effects including euclidean emphasis, MIDI
delay, pitch drift, random, and scale quantization, sound and arpeggiator presets, randomization and more.
Quadra comes loaded with an impressive collection of wildly diverse and inspired factory patches.
Hundreds of unique creative visions are ready to be explored, crafted by a team of in-house veterans
and industry stalwarts. Presets in Quadra are fully editable, functioning as fantastic starting points for
your own creative journeys, or as ready-to-go mojo for your productions.
Quadra: Metal & Wood offers native 64-bit standalone operation by way of Falcon or the free UVI
Workstation, providing comprehensive support for all modern DAWs and simultaneous authorization on
up to 3 computers or iLok keys.
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY:
Quadra: Metal & Wood is available immediately at an introductory price of $99 / 99€ through November
21st, 2021 (regularly $149 / 149€).
Additional information on Quadra: Metal & Wood is available at:
https://www.uvi.net/quadra-metal-and-wood
Beautifully worn and naturally warped, Lost Piano is designed to create a mood and inspire the way you play. It’s not a synthesizer but neither is it really a piano anymore; it’s somewhere in-between, a place you’ve not been before. Lost Piano was created for experimentation, created to push the limits on what you thought a piano could sound like.
Made from 32 sets of piano sounds that have been time-stretched and transformed through reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, guitar pedals, along with some unconventional plugin chains.
It also features our new custom Memories engine which generates an intelligent pattern of rhythmic sounds. More character and complexity than an arpeggiator. More curious and unconventional than a delay.
This is for the composers, creators, and music makers that value the way a sound makes you feel.
It’s time to get lost . . .
PIANO SOUNDS
There are 24 different sets of piano sounds and 8 texture pads that can be loaded into 2 sides of the instrument. They have all been painstakingly re-recorded, re-amped and re-worked from the original Alt Piano recording sessions. They have been stretched and transformed through reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and some of the world’s finest boutique guitar pedals. Some have been further manipulated with a string of unconventional plugin chains.
We also went back to the original piano and recorded some additional interesting sounds using wooden plectrums, drum sticks and palm-muted thumb plucks.
PIANO TEXTURES
The 8 texture pads have been made using the same re-recording techniques as the other sounds. The feeling of an analog synth, but with the soul of a piano. One of our favorites is called ‘Muddle’ which uses the highly revered, Fairfield Circuitry “Shallow Water” pedal and an Electro Harmonix Octave generator. We re-amped both left and right channels independently, constantly changing the controls of the pedals to give a truly original stereo sound.
MEMORIES
We’ve developed a custom engine called Memories which generates an intelligent pattern of rhythms to accompany your playing. More character and complexity than an arpeggiator. More curious and unconventional than a delay. Turn a simple chord into a rhythmical and moving soundscape of complimentary notes and tones.
Choose any of the piano recordings for the Memories engine to play and then tune the sound even more. Make them feel like a recent memory or a long-forgotten and hazy dream. We’ve created 12 presets just for the Memory page, to give you an instant starting point..
REVERB: Film-inspired spaces
We’ve created 12 film-inspired reverb impulses. The room of a Japanese hotel. A ballroom where all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. An empty house used to make soap. A spaceship where Dave is no longer in control. See if you can guess them all.
DELAY: Delays for days
Think differently about the way you know delay. The built-in delay engine houses 5 different types of delay from a clean digital delay to several vintage and analog inspired delays. Plus a delay we call Haze, where you can create a washed-out shimmery cloud that blurs the line between delay and reverb.
AMBIENCE: Put it in its place
To add some real-world quality we’ve included 6 ambient recordings. From a gentle breeze in woodland to a distant city at night. Instant atmosphere. Instant cinema.
NOISE: Turn up the character
If you think music shouldn’t sound pristine, there’s a series of 6 analog recorded noises to take the edge off. Worn cassette tape, vinyl crackle, radio static, and the drone of a forgotten machine are among the sounds available to make everything a bit rougher around the edges.
RANDOMISER
: Get lost
Randomize every single sound and control in the whole instrument to take a dive into the unknown. Who knows where you’ll end up. Maybe it will sound like that one time when you were 6 and recorded the family piano on your Dad’s reel-to-reel. Maybe it will sound like the darkest memories of a stranger you’ve never met. Maybe it‘s a sound you never imagined was possible that’s just about to kick start your entire score.
Lost Piano Specifications:
WEBSITE
https://www.westwoodinstruments.com/instruments/lostpiano
Please note: Webpage will not be live until launch
PRICE
$139 / €139 / £119
SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE
$79 / €79 / £69
(Runs until Midnight December 1st 2021)
Follow us here:
WEBSITE
https://www.westwoodinstruments.com
INSTAGRAM: @westwoodinstruments
FACEBOOK: @westwoodinstruments
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/WESTWOODINSTRUMENTS
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ABOUT WESTWOOD INSTRUMENTS
Virtual instruments for alternative composers
Westwood was born from an idea that composing on a computer would be much better if it felt like you’re writing with a musician and an instrument in front of you. We understand that not everyone has the means, time, or access to live musicians but we know that writing music can often be inspired by experimenting with a real instrument in the room.
Often to us, virtual instruments sound too clean, polished, and have had any natural character stripped from them, which in our minds is the very thing that makes music sound most interesting. We like to find musicians that follow this mindset and will choose instruments that don’t sound too perfect. We then capture real performances with all their individual nuances and playing styles. Sometimes with traditional performance techniques and sometimes with unique and unconventional ideas.
We sample instruments using the world’s best microphones through an impeccable signal chain. Each individual sample is then crafted to shape its character whilst keeping some of its natural flaws. These samples are then wrapped up in a custom virtual instrument made for use in Native Instrument’s Kontakt.
DUESSELDORF, GERMANY: DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) plugin and audio DSP (Digital Signal Processing) developer Fuse Audio Labs is proud to announce the availability of VCS-1 — a zero-latency channel strip combining all the tools needed for instant signal enhancement and dynamics control with some powerful special features — as of November 8…
By boasting under-the-hood complexity creatively accessed via a nimble workflow-supporting GUI (Graphical User Interface) based on a comprehensive, practical layout that is as easy on the eye as it is easy to use, VCS-1 virtually shapes all kinds of tones. Indeed, its triple-topology PREAMP offers different styles of coloration, while wide-ranging HP (high pass)/LP (low pass) FILTERS and a 5-band, fully-fledged parametric EQUALIZER are also available alongside dynamics controlled by a luxurious COMPRESSOR/limiter section and a highly-practical GATE/EXP (expander) stage, clearly visualized by a comprehensive gain reduction and level METERING panel.
Processing sections are individually enhanced by highly-flexible routing options with the FILTERS and EQUALIZER each being operable in STEREO or MID/SIDE MODE. Moreover, the COMPRESSOR’s side-chain can make use of the FILTERS, the EQUALIZER, and external control signals. An additional mix stage allows onboard PARALLEL compression, and every single section of VCS-1 can be bypassed individually.
Its immense processing power is rounded off by an ability to assign individual plugin instances to virtual groups that share the same parameters all across the DAW host, helpfully saving time and effort in the process.
“If ever there was a single ‘desert island’ plugin, VCS-1 is it.” So says Fuse Audio Labs CEO Reimund Dratwa, duly drawing an equally exciting-sounding conclusion: “Anyone seeking a single plugin to shape and process all their signals, groups, and busses in the most convenient way possible need not look any further than this powerful plugin!”
VCS-1 is available at an attractive 60%-discounted introductory promo price of $29.00 USD until December 12, 2021 — rising thereafter to its regular price of $79.00 USD — directly from its dedicated webpage, which includes more in-depth information, here: https://fuseaudiolabs.com/vcs1.html
Note that 14-day trial versions of all Fuse Audio Labs plugins without any restrictions are also available to download for free from here: https://fuseaudiolabs.com/plugins.html
Get a feel for VCS-1 while watching Fuse Audio Labs’ lovingly-produced presentation video here:
About Fuse Audio Labs (www.fuseaudiolabs.com)
Fuse Audio Labs is a number one source for truly analog-sounding plugins designed for the daily demands of real-world musicians and engineers. As an acclaimed company, it was founded in 2017 by Reimund Dratwa, deeply knowledgeable as an expert in translating complex analog topologies into top-tier DSP code. Creating a huge portfolio of leading modeling titles over the years for brands like ACME, Black Box, Black Rooster, elysia, Millennia, Neold, Vertigo, and many others available via Plugin Alliance and the UAD-2 platform, Reimund’s own designs remain 100% pure Fuse Audio Labs.
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