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Does string gauge matter? Yes, says YouTuber Rick Beato. But perhaps not in the way you think. His new video has some fascinating insights into string gauge that many may find surprising.
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The X-505 is a string machine, a synthesizer, and a bass synth in one vintage analog style software synthesizer modelled on the Roland RS-505 with some added choir for good measure
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Spitfire Audio is launching the next chapter in the Albion series. It's called NEO and is a modern cinematic collection of small orchestra and intimate strings threaded through their synthesis engine.
New year, new free plug-ins! This week, we've got a new release in the Spitfire Audio Labs series, and not one, but two free compressors. Check out LABS Strings 2, SeteChave and SN-05G.
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A perfectly simple and beautifully presented virtual instrument from Klevgrand that's a bit like an organ, a bit like a string synth and a lot like a lush sounding instrument.
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2getheraudio tells us it's time to gorge or the new and improved Pro version of the Cheeze Machine string synthesizer. Sounds good, smells good, tastes good.
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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.
Somewhat in the shadow of the release of Kyra, the Waldorf STVC String Synthesizer is here to show us how to do the old string/vocoder thing properly.
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Zoom has announced the A1 Four and A1X Four multi-effects for acoustic instruments. They come with more than 80 effects for acoustic guitar, wind instruments and strings, as well as a looper.
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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.
Uli Behringer would like to gauge interest in reviving the ARP Solina String Ensemble Analog Synthesizer. They'd add in a phase shifter, have it Eurorack friendly and make it terribly affordable.
It's time for our line-up of free plug-ins and audio freebies. There is something for everyone, including a ludicrous number of sound effects, a saturation unit, reverb IRs, and scary strings...
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Some more nice freebie pluggos for you this week, including a 3D audio visualizer, a tremolo, and two apps for iOS, an interesting strings-esque virtual instrument and an EQ.
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Verv is a string machine based on tape loops that have been left in the sun, on the dashboard of a car, in the desert, for the summer. It's wobbly wonderland of degraded sounds.
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Soma Laboratories has come up with the simplest of classical stringed instruments where vibrations are captured with magnets, transformed, pre-amped, delayed and distorted in completely haunting ways.
With little fanfare the Vocoder VC340 creeps onto their webpage but without a price, videos and no shops seem to have a listing yet - but it's officially released! Update: Price $599 available in March
