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| 01-30-06 / 10:53 PM : Korg Digital Edition (cjed) |
 Available since september (at 149 euros through Playback for example), Korg Digital Edition is the successor to Korg Legacy Collection. It adds complete M1 emulation with additonnal resonant filter, 256 voices and samples from all of 19 expansions cards (the same for the now complete Wavestation emulation).
Stunning demos are available here. |
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| 01-30-06 / 10:28 PM : NAMM : Roland SH-201 video (cjed) |
 Roland provides a video demonstration of the new SH-201. Another nice machine, whose analog modeling engine comes from the V-Synth.
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| 01-25-06 / 12:21 AM : Precisionsound : Retro Gadgets Vol. 1 (cjed) |
 Precisionsound ships Retro Gadgets Vol. 1, a samples library that contains samples from 3 toy keyboards : Dubrek Stylophone (Black), Dubrek Stylophone (White), Waddington Compute-A-Tune (respectively, 40, 40 and 144 samples in WAV format. Patchs are available for Halion and Kontakt). It takes 32 Mo and it is downloadable for 25$. No demo yet. |
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| 01-21-06 / 03:27 PM : NAMM : NI Kore (cjed) |
 Native Instruments announced Kore, an unified software container for their various virtual instruments products (and for third-party plugins), with database management (to classify and search through the total 11 000 patchs !), and external remote control surface. However it remains a software solution, where many companies look towards complete hardware integration solutions. |
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| 01-21-06 / 03:12 PM : NAMM : Miroslav refills for Reason 3 (cjed) |
| IK Mulitimedia and Sonic Reality presented 6 volumes of samples (one DVD for each) taken from legendary Miroslav Vitous llibraries, targeted to Reason 3 Combinator and NN-XT formats : Miroslav String Ensembles, Miroslav Solo Strings, Miroslav Brass, Miroslav Woodwinds, Miroslav Choirs, Miroslav Percussion & Keys (199$ each). |
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| 01-21-06 / 02:51 PM : NAMM : Roland Juno-G [UPDATE] (cjed) |
 Roland unveiled at NAMM the Juno-G, successor to Juno-D. It hides the audio engine of the Fantom X (128 voice polyphony, famous Grand Piano sound), an SRX extension slot, and a sequencer with 4 audio tracks. Midi and audio can be synchronized with a computer through the USB connexion. The design reminds much more the legendary Juno. [UPDATE] You should realy see this new video, the guy is so funny ! :) |
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| 01-19-06 / 11:20 PM : NAMM : Roland VP-550 (cjed) |
 Starting NAMM, we now see releases of other stuff than sometimes boring samples libraries. Notably, Roland presents the VP-550, a 4 octaves synthesizer derived from V-Synth's VC-2 (Vocal) card, and successor to the VP-330. More than an harmonizer and vocoder, this instrument is aimed at generating various choirs or strings ensembles. The playing is modulated by voice through a microphone. The design of the machine is pretty appealing.s |
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| 01-11-06 / 11:30 PM : MOTU : drivers for intel macs due late january (cjed) |
| MOTU announced that their audio & midi cards drivers will be compatible with new intel macs by the end of january. |
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| 01-09-06 / 10:48 PM : VSL : Pictures at an Exhibition (cjed) |
 Vienna Symphonic Library made available at download more than a dozen recordings played with VSL libraries. The files can be found here. These are compositions from Mussorgsky orchestrated by Ravel.
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| 01-05-06 / 10:58 PM : Best Service Orient World (cjed) |
 Best Service ships a new samples library, Orient World (Middle Eastern Instruments). On 4,5 Go we find here separate samples (Saz, Balaban, Zurma, Ney, Kanun, Violin, Accordion, Oud, Saxophone) and percussion loops. On soundsonline site some demos are available.
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| 01-05-06 / 10:21 PM : Audiofanzine : review of NI Bandstand (cjed) |
| Audiofanzine continues on its curse on detailed articles. This time they reviewed Bandstand, announced recently. It is a virtual instrument aimed at replacing a GM expander (it includes 2 Go of samples, when a Roland Sound Canvas only provided 8 Mo of Rom). However it can't catch up with dedicated hardware GM expanders in terms of polyvalence (of sounds and response from midi controllers). Therefore it doesn't comply fully with the XG extension. So, experience from historical instruments makers (Roland, Korg or Yamaha) is crucial and can make the difference with huge samples libraries. Furthermore long samples take longer to switch between patchs, and that can be problematic when playing midifiles. |
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