Garritan has announced the release of a 4th Edition of Garritan Personal Orchestra that now contains the Garritan ARIA sample engine and adds new features, new instrument sounds, updated programming and a lower price.

Garritan Personal Orchestra 4th Edition includes all the major instruments of the orchestra - strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion and keyboards plus quality instruments such as a Steinway grand piano, Stradivari violin (with new controllable vibrato), select Project SAM solo and section brass samples (new for this version), concert harps, celesta, concert pipe organ, and many other fine instruments. Personal Orchestra allows you to make ensembles of any size from the individual instruments, ranging from groups of a few instruments to a full symphony orchestra.

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AcousticsampleS releases DrumTaste Brush, a Brushed drum kit.

The DrumTaste Brush is a Brush Kit featuring a 22 bassdrum, a 12 hi tom, a 14 low tom, a 14' piccolo snare, two 22' rides and a 13' hihat.

Features :

• 3382 samples, 1.42 Go of samples recorded at 24 bits, 96khz downsampled to 44.1khz, no loops.
• 3 mic positions for each drum that you can mix and/or disable from the interface.
• about 20 velocity layers X 4 round robins (so about 80 samples per drums per position) and only 6 vel layers for the two ride cymbals.
• Custom mapping, you can assign every element to any key simply by pressing a key and assigning a sample.
• Mappings presets : GM, V-DRUMS, IMAP, NSKIT (NDK) or default one.
• Separated compression module for each element.
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AdrenaLinn Sync is a new software plug-in from Roger Linn Design that provides the same unique beat-synced filter modulation and sequencing effects of their AdrenaLinn III guitar pedal.

However, it goes even further, adding:

• More Control -- More parameters to fine-tune your filter modulation and filter sequencing effects.
• More Randomness -- Random sequence generation, random LFO amplitude, plus variable probability of randomly-generated notes or envelope firing.
• More Swing -- In additional to half or full swing timing for sequenced notes, you also get on randomly-generated notes.
• Noise source for Self-Generated Noise Beats -- Use noise with the sequencer to create synthesized drumbeats, or to excite resonant filters into self-oscillation.
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The Custom and Vintage SDX is a re-release of the Toontrack Music sample packs Superior Custom and Vintage and Superior Vintage Add-on (both released for the original Superior Drummer software) and they have now been combined to form the The Custom and Vintage SDX for Superior Drummer 2.0.

Apart from extensive stick and brush recordings of a unique collection of drums and cymbals it also features mixer presets by producer Peter Henderson and custom MIDI by drummer Chris Whitten.

The Custom and Vintage SDX will be available as an upgrade with a special price from the legacy products and one regular SDX version for newer customers. Both with the same content.

The Custom and Vintage SDX is available on the web and at your favorite retailer for €139.

Cinematique Instruments has announced the release of Experimental Box, an assortment of highgly playable rhythms, ambiences, and instruments which are perfect for writing music in an experimental and minimalist way. Beyond this, the box is suitable for combination with atmospheric, ambient and cinematic music...or just to build a wild cacophony !

Experimental Box was assembled from unique sounds such as station-announcements, trains, paper crumpling, acoustic and electronic noise, station hum, underground-railway noise, pneumatic doors, crown cap shaking, glitches, noise, hiss, hum, and other weirdness. Check out all the opportunities the instruments provide by using the modwheel and Kontakt's program interface.

Kontakt 3 or higher is required.

The Pricing is €19.