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We've unearthed seven new or underrated cinematic and game sound libraries by incredibly talented people that should be on your radar.
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The Circuit Rhythm is finally here and will turn samples into stellar tracks with built-in recording, performance effects and on-the-go capabilities.
Fancy a free delay plug-in? PreSonus and Bedroom Producers Blog are giving away the PreSonus Analog Delay plug-in for free – but only for a few days!
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The new sampled instrument platform conjures up a 1976 Vintage Rhodes and does some ultra-deep sampling of the Commodore 64's chiptune soul.
LANDR introduced the All Access Pass, a subscription that hands you the keys to the store with everything the platform has to offer.
Rast Sound 's SyncPlay is like a micro-Ableton where you bring in loops, they sync up, you start arranging them into patterns, add effects, and play!
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The Arcade adventure of interwoven loop packs evolves to become an instrument for playing melody and chords with Note Kits.
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HoriZEN is the forthcoming software synth from TheSynthFactory that features sampling and virtual analogue in a matrix infused approach to sound design.
The Sample Builder that was recently released for the Korg Wavestate makes it onto the Modwave where you can load up to 4GB of your own samples.
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Korg finally releases the long-promised editor/librarian for the Wavestate synthesizer along with sample import, Sample Building and a bunch of other stuff.
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Samples from Mars has captured a bunch of analog synth movements through tape feedback loops for experimental sounds in multiple software instrument formats.
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Korg's Modwave wavetable synthesizer is a fun and exciting digital synth that suffers from an abundance of modulation - and that's a great thing!
Behringer shows the first photos of their forthcoming LinnDrum drum machine clone. They are calling it LmDrum and it looks like it has quite a few extras.
Algonaut's Atlas 2 is a major upgrade to its AI-driven sample management and beatmaking software for MacOS, Windows and Linux. Here's what's new.
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In SampleTron 2 you'll find some deep sampling of vintage Mellotron and Chamberlin tapes along with new sounds and the ability to run your own samples through the tape modelling DSP.
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We love a bit of innovation and Lunacy Audio does it with their proprietary 3D sample engine that visualises and modulates samples in 3D space.
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The new Nord Piano 5 comes with twice the memory size for the piano and synth sections. They've also doubled up the sections for enhanced splits and layers. What else is new?
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Auxture is a unique experimental sampler that enjoys toying with folders of samples by modulation, randomness and gestures.
Ready for some old-school recordings? Check out this vast collection of vinyl and shellac from 1900 - 1960 you can stream and download for free.
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Tactic is a powerful percussive phrase generator utilising 8 sample slots, 4 sequencers and a lot of per-step modulation and randomising action.
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UVI has sampled the soul out of a Lintronics LAMM modification to the Moog Memorymoog synthesizer and called it PX Memories.
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Subscribe to the IK Multimedia newsletter and Father Christmas will gift you a copy of Memory-V based on the Memorymoog polysynth.
This week: A vocal set from Sri Lanka, an ancient instrument crafted from an apricot tree, ambient techno loops, laid back hip-hop samples and free industrial samples.
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Microtonal scale conversion and a hybrid sample and oscillator sound engine bring a powerfully modern world vibe to Solo.