AcousticsampleS presents his new library : AkousKontr, a very expressive upright bass sample library.

Features :

• The AkousKontr is a four strings Upright bass recorded at 24bits 44.1khz both from the pickup and with an electro-static microphone
• 779 Mo (1710 samples) sample library, no loops
• Sustain samples: 5 different velocities per note and 2 round robins separated in microphone and pickup samples.
• Release samples: about 13 different velocities per note.
• Hammer-on samples easily triggered with the keyboard thanks to the advanced scripting
• Advanced Vibrato effect controlled via modulation wheel
• Multiple slides effects
• Harmonics, ghost notes, string hits samples
• Percussion samples
• KONTAKT 2 and 3 format only, it uses a lot of script for hammers, slides, mixing, release level. Easy to use KONTAKT interface.
• priced at €49

Visit the website for screenshots and audio demos of the library.

Her is a message from Roger Linn :

"We're still hard at work but regrettably won't be able to meet our earlier estimate of a 3rd-quarter 2009 ship date. The recent changes in the economy have caused us to rethink our design, which had become too expensive. One problem is that Dave's customers and my customers had different views of what the product should be, so we had been working on a more elaborate design that we thought would please them both. Then the economy tanked. Oops. The other issue is that Dave and his team have been having such success with their analog synths that they've been spreading themselves pretty thin trying to work on both projects.

So given these circumstances, we'd prefer not to state another release date estimate at this time, but when we do we promise to post it here along with any other information we're able to release. Also, given that Dave and his team have their hands pretty full and that a beat-oriented product is more of a Roger product anyway, we'll probably be selling it through Roger Linn Design instead of from both companies as we had previously considered.

I'd personally love to tell everybody all the details of the product design, features and price as we did with our initial designs of the product, but there's that pesky problem of keeping the information from our competitors. So we need to keep tight-lipped for now and regrettably can't answer any questions. Thanks also to those who have kindly asked to place advance orders. However, we don't feel it's right to accept orders until we are able to release the price or more information about the product.

And now I must get back to work. :)

- Roger"

Toontrack Music has just updated Toontrack Solo to version 1.2.1. It fixes a number of faults with the new Metronome feature as well as expand the game controller support launched as part of version 1.2.0.

The changes in a nutshell :

• added support for Mad Catz XBox Rockband® drumkit on PC
• metronome should now work as expected on PC
• click sounds are correctly recalled/found regardless of the project
location on PC
• default metronome settings are remembered
• fixed a bug when opening save files with incorrect paths on PC
• Open/Save/Save as/New combinations should remember the filename
• some minor graphical issues in the mixer have been fixed

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The virtual drum machines Nepheton and Drumazon by the D16 group have been officially updated and since now, they're are also available in Mac OS X Audio Unit format.

For more information, please visit the link below :