The Miniak is the first synthesizer from Akai Professional developed in partnership with the Alesis synthesis team. The Miniak brings together Akai Professional's control feel with powerful DSP sound-generation technology.

The Miniak enables users to create programs with up to eight multi-timbral voices, each with three oscillators. The user can create interesting and unique sounds and take advantage of the synthesizer's more-than-600 preset sounds. Users can create complex and refined sounds using the Miniak's two multimode filters, three envelope generators, two LFOs, stereo effects and 40-band vocoder with gooseneck microphone. The Miniak also has a comprehensive sequencer with step and dynamic real time phrase sequencing, a drum machine/rhythm sequencer and an arpeggiator.

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Clavia has annonced that the Nord C2 Combo Organ is now shipping.

Features :

• Pipe Organ
• New keyboard action
• Improved output routing capabilities
• Monitor input
• Percussion controls moved to the "classic position"
• Vibrato and chorus controls moved to the "classic position"
• Enhanced click
• Drawbar Preview

Audio examples are available at :

Univers-Sons / Ultimate Sound Bank announces the release of a brand new UVI Soundpack, Italian Grand Piano. Here is what they say about it :

"After popular demand from the UVI community, our great sound designer team was back to work. The goal: find and record the best model of the Italian manufacturer Fazioli. We did choose a superb sounding F278 model, in our opinion, better than the usually sampled model F308.

For that kind of unique instrument, we did choose a very unique gear: the microphone set-up was a matched pair of Neumann M150 and the preamp/converters were the ones from the acclaimed Nagra D2. A unique combination of exceptional gear for the first time in sampling a piano library.

The UVI philosophy regarding pianos is to propose truly musical and excellent sounding pr ...

AcousticsampleS releases SmallDrumKits.

- The SmallDrumKits are 3 different Drum Kits, each has two toms, a snare, a
ride, a hihat and a bass drum.
- 506Mo of samples recorded at 24-bit/44.1kHz (kitA:149Mo, kitB 61Mo,
kitC:295Mo).
- Custom mapping, you can assign every element to any key from the
interface.
- Mappings presets: GM, V-DRUMS, IMAP, NSKIT (NDK) or default one.
- cc# controlled Hihat that features automatic closing sound.
- Cycle round robins (4 for kit A and C and 2 for kit B).
- Sensitivity button to adjust the response.
- Detailed instruments: up to 10 velocity layers per round robin.
- Kontakt 2 and 3 format to benefit from the interface and the custom
mapping. Easy to use Kontakt interface.
- Priced at €34 and as the summer sale is going on, you can get it for €22 until august 31.

You can find audio and video demos on the website.

The new Minimal Electro Soundset for Waldorf Largo from german sounddesigner Holger Steinbrink is now available in the Waldorf Webshop.

The soundset contains 128 single programs, created especially for the needs of electronic music producers. It was designed to provide crying leads, pulsating arpeggios and fat bass sounds for todays music production. The download package contains the soundset as FXB bank as well as all single sounds in FXB and AU preset format. VST3 presets for Steinberg Cubase 4 and 5 are also included plus a documentation sheet.

The Minimal Electro Soundset is priced at €30.