The first month of 2012 picked up where 2011 left off with Guitar Soundscapes continuing to hold the top loops spot. This massive collection of cinematic and ambient guitars is proving to be a top choice for Film, TV, Sound Design, Documentaries, Games, Film Trailers, Commercials and Contemporary Cinematic, Ambient music and even deep motional Rock. Also back among the top sellers was the distinctive collection of contemporary brush loops in Brush Artistry II.
The top virtual instruments for January 2012 were dominated by MOJO: Horn Section and Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitar, but also featured some new titles including the latest from UVI, Emulation II. This ultimate resource of Old School flavor features a set of unique instruments that accurately reproduce that popular feel from the 80s: from warm digital sounds to the most analog-ish textures. Also new to the top seller list is Neo Soul Keys. This premier virtual instrument is and expertly crafted urban sounding electric piano that is designed to reproduce the exact sound, feel, and playability of a real electromechanical instrument, with the detail and expressiveness of a real cabinet and the most beautiful vibrato.
David Das demo’d Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitars at the Big Fish Audio Booth at NAMM 2012 with attendees who were eager to figure out all the juicy details of its potential. Fractured is Vir2’s brand new instrument that is full of creative and esoteric presentations of acoustic guitars. This new VI contains around 2.3 GB of compressed samples and over 100 patches that will be sure to spark your creative imagination. These patches are broken down into 5 different categories: Chromatic Kits, Tempo Sync’d, Melodic, Drum Kits and Pads & FX. The response to this follow up to Violence was an overwhelming response.
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
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.
Pop Rocks was again at the top of the monthly sales chart followed by Big Bad Horns and Epic Drums II. The heavy alternative, hard and modern rock product Hi-Voltage made its way into the top ten as well as the much anticipated Brush Artistry 2. This distinctive collection of contemporary brush loops has nearly 3 gigs of content and contains 68 drum loop construction kits. Brush Artistry 2, Island Guitars, Epic Drums II, Hi-Voltage and Big Bad Horns are all part of the KLI Series which is proving to be a Big Fish Audio favorite!
Electri6ity, RiG, Q and MOJO led the way for instruments in the month of September.
| TOP 10 LOOPS | TOP 10 INSTRUMENTS |
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| 1. Pop Rocks | 1. Electri6ity |
| 2. Big Bad Horns | 2. RiG: Urban Workstation |
| 3. Epic Drums II | 3. Q |
| 4. Hi-Voltage | 4. MOJO: Horn Section |
| 5. Pure Rock Hits | 5. Acoustic Legends HD |
| 6. Brush Artistry 2 | 6. World Impact: Global Percussion |
| 7. Island Guitars | 7. Violence |
| 8. Modern Country | 8. Tutti |
| 9. Indie Rock Addiction | 9. Whole Lotta Country |
| 10. Ambient Skyline | 10. Celtic Instruments |