Mac and Music News
Through Saturday March 23, 2013
Feb 19 - 01:51 PM | Virtual Instrument > ModernBeats |
Featuring over 365 Pop Radio music loops in construction-style layout, ModernBeats has just released its latest loop library "Pop Anthemz 2". Pop Anthemz Music Loops 2 includes 870+ files in 3 formats (Acidized WAV, Apple Loops AIFF, & Reason REX2) for a total size of 1.36GB.
The library is structured into 2 popular pop top-40 radio tempos: 126BPM and 132BPM. Each 2 tempo groups contains several multi-track loop themes including 3-7 variations per theme: "Intro1", "Intro2", "Hook1", "Hook2", "Verse1", "Verse2", and "Break". Each multi-track variation is separated in its individual instrument loop file such as bass, piano, synth1, synth2, strings etc.
The 'Pop Anthemz 2' Loop Library is offered as a download, priced at just $29.95.
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Feb 19 - 09:36 AM | Virtual Instrument > Sample Logic |
- Over 850 Instruments and Multis recorded and processed at 48k/24-bit, delivered at 44.1k/24-bit.
- Just under 1 GB sample library using Kontakt's lossless sample storage compression
- NI Kontakt 5 Player with native 64-bit support
- Stand-alone, VST, AU, DXi, RTAS (Pro Tools 9 or higher), ASIO, CoreAudio, WASAPI
ASSAULT MSRP: $299.99
Pre-order Promo: $199.99.
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Feb 18 - 03:33 PM | Music Software > Ableton |
What's new in 9?
The newest invention is Push - the instrument designed to let you make music completely from scratch and without having to look at your computer. Push gives you hands-on control of melody and harmony, beats, sounds, and song structure.{P]
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Feb 18 - 11:19 AM | Plug-ins > Universal Audio |
The original LA-2A hardware — still hand-built at UA headquarters in Scotts Valley, California — is an audio industry icon, bringing smooth, warm compression to anything it touches, especially vocals. With the new LA-2A Classic Leveler Plug-In Collection, Universal Audio modeled the entire electronic path of three highly coveted hardware units — "Silver," "Gray," and the original LA-2 model — providing the most authentic plug-in emulations available of this iconic compressor.
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Feb 18 - 09:56 AM | Virtual Instrument > Sample Logic |
In perhaps our most comprehensive patches pack to date, we've gone all out to deliver the ultimate trap producer's toolkit, putting everything you need to make a block-rocking trap anthem at your fingertips.
Taking inspiration from the genre's leading lights, we've crammed in 101 patches of frenzied arps, booming sub basses, screeching and searing stabs, Rhodes-style keys, windrush FX, ominous pads, plus a slew of ultra-crisp drum patches for those trademark deep south inspired beats.
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