This week's round-up includes a fantastic virtual bass guitar, a drum plug-in for throwback hip hop tracks, sounds for the Behringer Deepmind and a versatile piano sample pack from Muze.
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GranuRise is strange and deeply fascinating using expressive interaction to process sample-based sources through semi-prepared generative structures. It's a bit granular, complex and looks amazing.
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Polyend is ramping up the tease machine with two new videos since they dropped the first one a couple of weeks ago. In this video they appear to directly sample a Fender Rhodes piano; very intriguing.
A few details of the Squarp Instruments Rample appeared briefly on their website. They originally teased us with it in December but it could be fully revealed very soon - here's what we know.
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With a dash of nostalgia, a pinch of evolution and a huge chunk of new content Korg works its magic on the Wavestation to give us Wavestate; a fabulously dynamic digital synth that never sits still.
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Arturia gives Pigments an upgrade that includes a sample and granular engine, improved randomisation in the sequencer, Buchla Easel low pass gate and a tape delay.
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ImPerfect from WA Productions is designed to take all the lovely unstableness and drift of analogue synthesizer and smash it into their new digital synth architecture.
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GForce brings stereo playback to their Virtual String Machine along with 3.5GB of new stereo library and they've redesigned the GUI for higher density screens and routed the LFO to the filter.
Your electronic snare sounding dead and lifeless? Try these simple tricks to liven up your snare sounds - after all, it's one of the most important elements in any song or production.
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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.
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Delta-V Audio's SpaceCraft granular synth has been orbiting iOS for about a year but now with the help of Tracktion it's being brought into land on the planet of desktop so we can all have a ride.
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Teenage Engineering has released version 1.2.5 of the OP-Z operating system which includes the impatiently waited for sampling mode and a bunch of other fixes.
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You don't have to subscribe to Slate Digital to get your hands on the superb ANA 2.0 wavetable and sample-based software synthesizer. You can buy it straight from Sonic Academy.
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The SP 2400 is still some way off but they've decided to open up preorders for people who want to get their money down on this exciting evolution of "the greatest drum machine the world ever saw".
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Load Runner pulls grains off your 16bit wav files and chases them about. Lots of CV control over all parameters, nice big waveform display and very hands-on.
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The weirdly named Squid Salmple is an old school sampler that gives you 8 channels of sample triggering, loads banks from USB or record straight in. Assignable CV control, 3 channels of pitch control.
