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    e-instruments Session Keys Electric R

    Virtual Instrument

    This fastidiously sampled instrument could be the only Rhodes you’ll ever need.

    Reviews Dec 2015
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    Wide Blue Sound Orbit

    Kontakt Instrument

    Orbit is a Kontakt 5 instrument designed to be a source of evolving or pulsing textures. Unusually, you access it via...

    Reviews Dec 2015
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    Native Instruments The Gentleman

    Kontakt Instrument

    Grand pianos can sound fantastic, but many of us cut our teeth playing old uprights in homes and schools and still want that kind of sound for our recordings from time to time.

    Reviews Dec 2015
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    50% off McDSP, Sound Radix, Loopmasters & more

    If you love a bargain but don’t want to be crushed to death by your fellow human, take our advice and, for the...

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    Time+Space announce savings on iZotope effects and instruments

    Save up to 66% on a range of creative sonic tools

    Need some inspiration or just want a quick and easy way to shake up your signature sound? iZotope has...

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    IK Multimedia unveil Miroslav Philharmonik 2

    New orchestral library adds over 1,000 new string, brass and woodwind instruments

    IK Multimedia have announced Miroslav Philharmonik 2, the next-generation of their “emotionally expressive...

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    Brass Instruments

    Orchestral Brass Sample Libraries: A Buyers Guide

    With so much choice on offer, picking the right brass library for your music can be tricky. Our comprehensive product guide shines a spotlight on the current contenders.

    Reviews Nov 2015
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    Sample Magic BLOQ

    Kontakt, Live & Logic Pro Instrument

    Sample Magic have been making sample libraries for many years, but this virtual drum machine and synthesizer combination is their first instrument.

    Reviews Nov 2015
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    Sample Shop | Media

    Sample Libraries

    Audio files to accompany the article.

    Reviews Nov 2015
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    Soundiron Brad Hoyt’s Harp Guitar

    Kontakt Instrument

    What exactly is a harp guitar? It’s a new one on me, but its history and background is intriguing.

    Reviews Nov 2015
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    Siren Audio Lorelei Suite v2

    Formats: Mac & PC stand-alone

    Siren Audio launched the Lorelei suite of applications a few years ago but now two of them, Generative and Feedback 2 have received major tweaks and updates.

    Reviews Nov 2015
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    F9 Audio Drumtrax Future Classic House Vol 1 & 2

    Stems For Logic & Live

    The soundware label of James Wiltshire of the Freemasons, F9 Audio are promising a new range of soundware called Drumtrax.

    Reviews Nov 2015
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    Bandmaster Powerhouse Breaks

    WAV Format

    Back in 1977, Scottish company GR International, designed and manufactured a rhythm machine called the Powerhouse. Thirty-eight years later, owner of two Powerhouse machines, Dan Radclyffe, renovated his tapes and hardware and sampled all eight original cartridges to make this 64–loop library.

    Reviews Oct 2015
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    EastWest ProDrummer

    Virtual Drum Instrument

    Need a professional drummer in your studio? How about auditioning EastWest’s ProDrummer for the job?

    Reviews Sep 2015
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    Sample Shop | Media

    Audio files to accompany the article.

    These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the September 2015 issue.

    Reviews Sep 2015
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    Arturia Matrix 12 V

    Software Synthesizer

    Never afraid of a challenge, Arturia have undertaken the first software emulation of the celebrated Oberheim Matrix 12.

    Reviews Aug 2015
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    IK Multimedia SampleTank 3

    Sample-based Virtual Instrument

    Eleven years is a long time in software, so the new version of SampleTank ought to be pretty impressive.

    Reviews Aug 2015
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    Drumforge Drumforge I

    Multi-format

    Of all the record producers and engineers I’ve interviewed over the years, few impressed me as much as Joey Sturgis, so when I heard that he was the Executive Producer of Drumforge I was very keen to take a look at the product.

    Reviews Aug 2015
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    Big Fish Audio Vintage Strings

    Kontakt Instrument

    Vintage Strings is a Kontakt library intended to sit alongside Vintage Vibe and Vintage Horns and, like those products, uses original samples recorded in a fashion intended to replicate how it might have been done in Motown.

    Reviews Aug 2015
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    MusicLab RealEight

    Plug-in Instrument

    The fifth of MusicLab’s ‘Real’ virtual guitar instruments, RealEight is modelled on an eight-string guitar, currently popular for metal, prog metal, epic rock and all things dark and demonic.

    Reviews Aug 2015
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    Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2

    Software Synthesizer

    As it reaches its second incarnation, we ask: is Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere the world’s best soft synth?

    Reviews Aug 2015

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