Insights: Hollywood Strings Keyswitch Finger Positions
Hollywood Strings Keyswitch Finger Positions feature offers composers the unique coloristic writing opportunity of actually playing full lines across positions 1-4 on the string instruments, or to select smaller areas to perform on a single string.
Read More →Insights: Albion
Albion is the newest orchestral brainchild from Spitfire Audio, headquartered in Great Britain. It follows the path of Symphobia 1, Hollywoodwinds, and Symphobia 2 by being a problem/solution orchestral module that does not compete directly with full fledged orchestral libraries from EastWest, SONiVOX, or the Vienna Symphonic Library.
Read More →Rumble
Rumble, then, is intended to serve the needs of three distinct classes of musicians: the working media composer, the dedicated sound designer and the marching band directors across America. These three perspectives give Rumble a unique place in the crowded Virtual Instruments market.
Read More →On Quill & Ink and Music Technology
Some end of year considerations for both customers and developers.
Read More →SONiVOX Releases New Virtual Instrument Beating Tascam to Market
On a late Friday afternoon in July 2008 a press release from Al Joelson, marketing manager at SONiVOX, scooted around the Internet announcing that they had a secret inhouse development team that had developed, “a universally compatible player technology that focuses on intelligent MIDI performance, intuitive interfaces, and the highest sonic fidelity.” Further down the [...]
Read More →HALion Symphonic Orchestra
HALion Symphonic Orchestra Street Price- $499.00 While buzz on the HSO is virtually non-existent, Yamaha/Steinberg have produced a quality sounding orchestral library whose great strengths are in its design to operate easily within Cubase or Sonar as a virtual instrument, to blend well with other libraries, and to stand on its own merit as an [...]
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