Atmospheric Pressure by 9 Soundware is a set of instruments for the EXS24 sampler within Apple Logic Pro. The theme of the sound set is atmospheric pressure, which is portrayed as sounds of wind-like ambience, undersea activity, various air masses, crashing implosions, and ear-tearing altitude shift.

The instruments are based on 50 samples (30 loops, 16 one-shot events, and 4 hits). The source sounds for the samples include underwater recordings, noise, and performed effects processing. The samples, 1 to 28 seconds in length, include organic noise-based textures, synthetic loops, crescendoing one-shot events, and sustaining impacts.

In addition to the 174 MB AtmosphericPressure.exs instrument which uses all 50 samples, included are 20 instruments which make extensive use of the modulation capabilities of the EXS24 mkII sampler. Among them are tempo synced instruments, free-form textural instruments, impact instruments, as well as ambience instruments that can trigger contrasting samples using MIDI message cc#1 (Ear-tearing Shift.exs), and tuned noise instruments (Torr.exs). Many are designed to be played primarily with the modulation and pitch bend wheels (and less so with the keys). As they lend themselves more to performance than step sequencing, a midi controller is highly recommended when using this sound set.

The 175 MB download includes 21 .EXS files and 50 WAV files (24-bit/44.1 kHz).

Atmospheric Pressure is available now for $19.99 at :

AcousticsampleS Releases has announced the release of TheBox, a big Peruvian Bass Cajón recorded at 44.1Khz / 24bits.

Features :

- 224 Mo of stereo samples (839 samples), no loops
- Right hand / Left hand samples
- 12 different hit positions to reflect the full possibilities of the instrument
- About 70 Velocity layers per note divided in 4 Round Robins
- Customizable sensitivity (kontakt)
- Available for Kontakt 2 and 3, EXS24, SFZ and MachFive.

TheBox is available now at a price of €14.

Concussion by 9 Soundware is an instrument in EXS24 format. Based on acoustic impact sounds created entirely with found objects, the sounds contained are intended to augment or be used as an alternative to traditional drum and percussion instruments.

The instrument is constructed from samples of objects being struck, thrown, dropped, and manipulated in a variety of other ways. Among the items used in the recordings are sheet metal, furniture, auto parts, a flyswatter, chains, mousetraps, pipes, and a cardboard box. Examples include the sounds of a large piece of sheet metal being struck with a metal rod, furniture being slammed against the studio wall, a small chain being dropped onto a paint roller tray, and air produced from flinging a stick. These samples were designed to work together to form an atypical, yet versatile, rhythmic instrument.

Concussion, which features 6 sound categories (Air, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Wood, and Miscellaneous), includes 106 sounds (sampled at 1-5 velocities) that are mapped across a 9 octave range in an EXS24 instrument.

The 18 MB download includes 1 .EXS file and 194 WAV files (24-bit/44.1 kHz).

Concussion is available now for $19.99 at :

Version 1.1 of Vienna's 64-bit high-precision audio plug-in suite is now available for download.

The update is free to all existing users of Vienna Suite. For new customers, May is a good month to get all nine audio plug-ins including the brand-new Convolution Reverb at the current low price of €395. On June 1st, 2009, the price of Vienna Suite 1.1 will go up to €445.

Waldorf has just announced that its Largo Synthesizer will see the light of day within the merry month of May. The long awaited synthesizer software for Mac and PC is breathing and has already tried to jump out of its incubator. Largos sound engine was injected with all the notorious wavetables of the Microwave, the legendary Wave and also the Q series. The LFO is already rehearsing very complex steps and the filter drive screams as loud as only Waldorf's little baby can.

Check the audio demos at :