Here, Jordan shows off some of the Middle Eastern sounds in Ethno Instrument 2.
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Thanks for the tip from Stretta who points out someone who created his own hardware control surface to play MOTU’s BPM, the popular MPC-style plug-in that lets you program your own beats. It’s a favorite of our customers so thought it warranted a mention here!
Cinesamples’ Drums of War was used extensively throughout James Horner’s score for AVATAR by James Horner’s Synth programmer, Aaron Martin.
“As a Synth programmer working on Avatar, Drums of War were the first percussion sounds I would grab for that incredible impact that the score deserved. The massive scope and width of these drums were a perfect choice for this groundbreaking blockbuster film. Cinesamples has an Oscar winning hit with this amazing product.”
–Aaron Martin (Synth programmer for composer James Horner)
One of our most popular partners, Cinesamples, just announced that they’ve got a new series of percussion libraries up their sleeve for release later this month. Those of you who enjoyed Drums of War should have a lot of fun with their new offerings! They tell us there are extensive dynamic layers and round robining, three mic positions, and tempo-synced crescendo rolls that’ll benefit the suspended cymbals and snares. As a composer myself, I’ve gotten great mileage out of Cinesamples‘ huge action drums and meticulous attention to sonic detail, so I can’t wait to get to work with these.
Congratulations to Michael Clark for being the grand prize winner of the Big Fish Audio 2009 Product of the Year sweepstakes! Michael won all 20 nominated products.
At Vir2 Instruments we use the Kontakt Player engine to drive all our products. Many new customers ask us why we use this plugin sample engine. We actually chose the Kontakt player for several reasons. It’s a very stable sampler engine that is both memory and processor efficient. It can run in standalone, or as a plug-in in any of the current DAW applications available on the Mac or PC platforms. It’s well known and widely used by many musicians, composers, and sound designers. The biggest reason we chose Kontakt is because of the powerful scripting engine; the scripting engine allows us to program real-time, performance enhancing features that make our instruments more musical and more enjoyable to use.