Big Fish Audio kicked off the first day of the 2012 NAMM show.
Check us out at the 2012 NAMM Show! Big Fish Audio will be at the 2012 NAMM Show showing off the latest in loops and virtual instruments. Visit us at booth 6514 in Hall A to catch live demos of Neo Soul Keys, Vir2’s latest instrument Fractured plus upcoming releases. Hear the latest loop titles including Ambient Skyline 2, Off the Hook Legacy, Rock Cinema, Country Roots, Guitar Soundscapes and more. Also on hand will be Ultimate Sound Bank with live demos of their new releases Gypsy Jazzy, Emulation II, Ultimate Electro House and more. Get an up close and personal look at their UVI Workstation 2 software!
NEW AT NAMM 2012!
Check back here for news and updates throughout the 2012 NAMM weekend!
The final month in 2011 saw Guitar Soundscapes hold on to the top Loops spot for the second month in a row. Closing in next was Epic Drums II, Suite Grooves 2 and Country Roots. Also in the Top 10 Loops for the first time this December was Ambient Skyline vol. 2. This offering is the second in a series of ambient & cinematic chill-out loops, rhythm beds and samples. 6 GB of 24-bit original content, 796 loops and 892 one-shots allow you to quickly create the perfect musical bed and ambient masterpiece.
On the Instruments side, Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitar managed to reach the top position within a few days of its release in December! This new collection of instruments featuring creative and esoteric samples and manipulations of various acoustic guitars is innovative and ear-catching. Fractured features 2.3GB of compressed samples and more than one hundred new instruments with numerous variations and effects built into each. Also in the Instruments Top 10 for the first time was Gypsy Jazzy. This new library from UVI is the first exclusive product dedicated to Gypsy Jazz, blending the traditional with modern genres like electro-swing and swing-house.
Vir2 Instruments’ “Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitar” is now shipping!
Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitar is an innovative new collection of instruments
featuring creative and esoteric samples and manipulations of various acoustic guitars.
Following the tradition begun by Violence, Vir2’s virtual dismembering of a solo violin,
Fractured features 2.3GB of compressed samples and more than one hundred new
instruments with numerous variations and effects built into each. Each patch
features the organic goodness of the acoustic guitar, but stretches its timbre in new
directions to create previously unheard musical effects. Drum kits were made from such
varied techniques as hitting the guitar with a mallet, scraping strings with
fingernails, cardboard, or copper, and for one patch, rice was poured over the guitar.
Long evolving pads were built from acoustic guitar samples that blur the line between
electronic and acoustic. Fractured also features playable and dynamic rhythmic loops
and patterns, multitimbral arpeggiated creations, huge cinematic impacts, gritty electronic
drums, gnarly and etherial melodic instruments, and more innovative sonic goodness.
Depending on the instrument loaded, appropriate knobs for tweaking the instrument appear
in the interface, such as:
– Quantization
– Envelope controls (attack and release)
– Stereo spread
– Lopass and hipass filters
– Layer blend controls
– Effects (reverb, delay, drive, flanger, vibrato, rotator, wobble, and others)
– Autopan control
– Repeater
What an amazing year of releases for Big Fish Audio! 2011 has been a busy and successful year of loop library and virtual instrument releases. We’ve picked the top ten products based on sales, reviews and customer feedback. Here is a look at the top products for 2011.
1. Electri6ity – The ultimate virtual electric guitar instrument.
2. Rig: Urban Workstation – A complete rig of Instruments, Loops and Sound FX for Urban Production.
3. MOJO: Horn Section – The heart and soul, of funk, pop, jazz, and big band horn sections.
4. Q – Instruments and sound design for the big screen.
5. The Crate: Ultimate Urban Samples – Nearly 7GB’s of pure and raw urban samples.
6. Ambient Skyline – An inspiring and unique collection of moody and atmospheric loops and sounds
7. Modern Country – Modern Country construction kits.
8. Pop Rocks – Rock, Pop Soul, and Adult Contemporary.
9. Epic Drums II – Bigger…badder…cinematic percussion.
10. Pop n’ Soul Guitars – An exhaustive collection of R&B, Soul and Pop Guitar loops.
Guitar Soundscapes jumped one spot to the top loop sellar in November with its brilliant collection of cinematic and ambient guitar loops. Pop Rocks and Epic Drums II also held ground following closely behind. One newcomer to the top ten was Rock Cinema. Produced by Majorn9ne for Big Fish Audio (Indie Rock Addiction and Indie Rock Collection Vol. 1) Rock Cinema is an intense collection packed with epic guitars, driving drums, emotional piano hooks and more, perfectly suited for any film score, tv show, commercial or any edgy rock production. With nearly 8GB (4.2GB of original WAV file content) of loops and 16 loaded construction kits full of multiple song sections and variations, this collection is worth its weight!
RiG: Urban Workstation made its way back to the top of the instruments charts followed by MOJO: Horn Section and Electri6ity for the month of November.
