Cinesamples released their latest freebie today, called Jerry’s Pianos. Often the orchestral piano is called upon to double rhythmic patterns at pitch – its percussive nature allows the texture to speak quicker and more precisely. Larger orchestral ensembles occasionally include a second piano for balance and color. Orff employs two pianos playing the ostinato in…
Tone2 has decided that Firebird 2 has reached the end of it’s commercial life and the company has announced that this extremely popular and flexible synth is now FREE for everyone. See the full press release below. After seven years of faithful service, Firebird itself has become vintage. Even though it’s no longer profitable to…
8Dio Adagio Violins Volume 1 claims to break new ground for deep sampled orchestral string libraries. But does it deliver?
We take a look at this first library in the Adagio Strings series to see if Adagio Violins is worthy of a place in your collection.
The guys at Ample Sound have created several plugins over the past year designed to give you realistic acoustic and electric guitar sounds. And if you’ve been looking to get your hands on the libraries to test, you’re in luck. They announced today the first FREE version of one of their libraries, the Ample Guitar M Lite.
A while back, I started looking into the idea of an automated way to transfer articles from our old platforms to this new platform. We used to use not only a different coding language and database for the backend, but a completely different content management system. So I was hoping to find an easier solution.
I couldn’t.
Quality sample libraries are difficult to make. They require a lot of time, energy and money to bring to fruition. So it’s no wonder that most libraries don’t allow you to take their samples, process them, and then SELL those samples in your own library. But the DNR Collaborative Sound Repository is different. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find.
So we’ve figured out that your audience just doesn’t care if you hit all the right notes, used a real guitar or a fake one, but what about effects? Guess what……they don’t care.
It seems that everywhere you look over the past two years, we get another shiny new strings library to play with. 8Dio have decided to go a different direction with their solo violin library, called ‘Studio Solo Violin’. While other libraries have all taken the multi-sample approach, Studio Solo Violin focuses on the phrase.
String libraries, along with other orchestral instruments, are often considered the pinnacle of sampling. The time, energy and cash flow required to record even one string player can be huge. So when somebody samples some strings and brings them to our audio doorsteps for FREE, it's worth mentioning any day! So we bring you Intimate…
Rack Extensions are potentially the best thing to come along for Reason users in a long time. Check out this brand new video which tells more about them and also get to hear from the developers who are already creating Rack Extensions.