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Spitfire Audio has teamed up with the BBC Symphony Orchestra to create an orchestral sample library of epic proportions. 99 players, 418 techniques per instrument, 11 mic positions – it's madness.
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Tangible Waves introduces a whole drum kit in a module, an analogue kick drum and clone of the Mutable Instruments Grids to sequence it - all for peanuts in terms of modular money.
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IK Multimedia's MODO Drum pulls out all the stops to model the physical attributes of both the drums and the player in a remarkably detailed study of the humble drum kit.
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UNO Drum is a 12-track drum machine featuring 6 analogue sounds and many more PCM ones in a compact form that makes it easy to bash out rhythms and create patterns. A percussive partner to UNO, then.
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Now here’s a genius idea for all of you cash-strapped buskers out there. Stompai is an app that plays drum sounds, controlled by the movements of your foot.
Portland is a stripped down percussion synthesizer using resonators, noise and plenty of shaping for its 4 channels of drums. The huge patch bay makes it quite at home amongst all your other gear.
Styled like a hardware drum machine, TRAX comes complete with 50 drum kits spanning modern beat-driven genres like hip-hop, trap, EDM and the like.
At last, after two years of waiting, the WMD trigger sequencer is poised for release. The METRON is now available for preorder and should ship early 2019
Just when you thought Korg had lost interest in the Volca series of mini synths two new ones pop up on Instagram - a Buchla inspired Micro Modular and a Digital Percussion Synthesizer.
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A Bassdrum, Snare, Hi-Hat and Clap in four DIY modules that use DSP based virtual analog as their sound source and let you morph through the synthesis parameters in XY 2D. Very cool kits.
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The performance pad controller is back with a sampling audio engine, on-screen editing, triggers, 9 velocity sensitive pads and audio looping in a device that you beat with sticks.
Uli Behringer takes to the internet to tell us that the RD-909 is not coming as soon as we'd like but if we're patient then we're going to love the price.
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Build your own percussive and noise shaping synth box with a Polivoks inspired filter and bags of personality. The Rakit Metal Synth is an easy build, great value and a load of fun to play with.
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Tanzbär 2 brings 8 channels of analog and 8 channels of samples into its advanced step sequencing eco-system. It includes a little bass synthesizer, 3 sample voices with analog filters and 10 sample ...
The combination of Knobcon and 909 Day was too much of a temptation for Behringer and so they had to reveal the prototype of their RD-909 Rhythm Designer.
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System80 has recreated the legendary TR-808 Rhythm Composer in Eurorack modular format. The 880 Drum Machine couples 16 classic analog drum sounds with TR-style step sequencing in 60HP.
