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Modelled on a very rare example of a functional Klaviphon built in the Czech Republic in the 1960s that generated sound by plucking reeds with wooden hammers.
Crossfades are boring? Not anymore! United Plugins and JMG Sound have released Transmutator, a crossfading plug-in that lets you get creative with 16 different fade modes.
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From Sampleson's new Luthier Series comes ElectroNylon where you can morph from fully nylon guitar to electric piano and everything in between in this unique and unlikely hybrid instrument.
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Steinberg has released Backbone a drum design tool that will level-up the way you generate drums with multiple layers of samples and re-synthesis in a neat and colourful interface.
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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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Using their magical second-generation spectral modelling engine Sampleson has analysed the Fender Rhodes Suitcase 73 and squeezed it down to a 35MB virtual instrument.
Harrison Consoles has released the AVA Spectral Compressor. The plug-in allows you to apply compression selectively across 18 frequency bands, giving you precise control.
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Steinberg has released an update to the rather wonderful Padshop virtual instrument and bringing samples together in a microcosmos of grains and spectra to discover completely new sounds.
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Sampleson has worked some magic with their spectral modelling to build a piano in software from a patent filed by Leo Fender in 1959 of an electric piano that was never constructed.
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Sampleson has shifted its spectral modelling gaze onto the electric pianos of the 1990s and offers up the aptly named Glassy combining classic DX and Roland digital sounds with a snuggly pad generator
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Akoustic is a wonderfully weird and organic sounds spectral and additive synthesizer that mutates acoustic instruments through spectral modelling and partial manipulation. Subtle, nuanced and strange.
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Steinberg has acquired SpectraLayers, and released SpectraLayers Pro 6. The latest version of the spectral audio editor comes with new editing tools, workflow improvements, and ARA support.
Toneboosters has added Enhancer to its catalogue of useful and affordable plug-ins, which lets you add a bit of sonic sparkle to individual tracks and entire mixes during mixdown and mastering.
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Spectral Modelling is a curious thing. They sample an instrument and reduce it down to simple sine waves that recreate the authentic sound in a handful of MBs. The Model T is their latest electric piano.
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16 bands of complex spectral analysis that offers filtering, EQ, vocoding and transformative resynthesis. Buchla 296e is one of the most complex and expensive hardware modules. Get it in Softube Modular.
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Rossum Electro-Music boggle our minds with the Panharmonium. Plug in some audio and it extracts the spectrum and runs it through up to 33 oscillators. But we don't know what it sounds like yet.
