This week's free plug-ins let you delve into the vintage glory of the Ensoniq SQ80, create smooth delays with SevenDelay and get experimental with the KLANG series from Cinematique Instruments.
According to disgruntled employees, Native Instruments is haemorrhaging staff and closing down parts of its business - while Behringer throws out a safety net. It's all a bit nuts, to be honest.
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An "entirely new bass engine" built in the familiar Kontakt Player with 11GBs of sampled synths, brass, strings and basses from all sorts of places in 4 layers with effects and masses of modulation.
This week, we have two awesome free sound libraries for you, as well as an unconventional sample recorder / editor. Check out Hand Bells, Vos Contemporary, and SP22.
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Native Instruments create the biggest bundle of instruments and sound library in the world with Komplete 12 Ultimate Collectors Edition. There's a regular version too all featuring Kontakt 6 and Massive X
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Gothic Instruments have bundled together 8 of their most atmospheric DRONAR instruments into a singular, improved and yet familiar interface so you can go to town on creating the most awesome of sonic ...
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A splurge of string synths appeared in the 1970's after the success of the Solina Strings. The EKO Stradivarius was one of the more obscure but favoured by Vangelis for its spooky and atmospheric tones.
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Spitfire Audio announced its Labs sample libraries are going free in the near future. Formerly Kontakt-only, they will be breaking free of the Native Instruments sampler with the addition of a custom plug-in.
We're pretty sure Output's new baby is capable of some bad-ass sounds in the right hands. Remember Nine Inch Nails' Capital G? Yeah, that's what distorted brass can sound like!
Puremagnetik release Console Y, an expanded library of the Ensoniq ARS-X across Ableton, Logic and Kontakt formats, but only in their Spark subscription service. Does $8 a month work for you?
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New kids on the block Sound Machinery launch their first two products for Kontakt, The Morphologist synthesizer and DR.110 REDUX. And to celebrate you can have the drum machine for free.
Looking for those sweet free plug-ins? We got 'em here! This week saw the release of two fantastic tools - the FreeMod modulation VST/AU plug-in by Audiority and the free version of DRONAR, an atmospheric...
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Need some drama in your life? How about 3.7GB of free evolving and modulating sonic soundscapes taken from the Dronar series of atmospheric generators?
Output, makers of crowd favorites like its Movement and Substance engines, is teasing a brand new product that's supposedly coming soon. All we know it's that it's not another engine, or anything that makes ...
A new VSTi producing suspenseful soundscapes and FX, Thrill uses the Kontakt 5 sampler and sports a huge 30GB library as well as a neat GUI - but unfortunately also a frighteningly high price tag.
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Invasors brings the feel and sound of analog hardware into the Kontakt software interface giving an enjoyably tweakable and inviting sound making experience.
