Finally: Korg Legacy Collection Virtual Instruments Now with 64-bit Compatibility

March 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Good news for both current owners (like yours truly) and potential owners of Korg’s Legacy Collection plugins: these guys are now available in 64-bit. Check it out at Korguser.net.

For people who run 64-bit DAWs but don’t own any of the Legacy Collection plugins, this would probably be a good time to check them out. For only $49.99 a piece, you can now get yourself Korg’s own software recreations of classic synths like the M1, Wavestation, Mono/Poly, PolySix, and MS-20, as well as the MDE-X effects suite (only $19.99).

Note: Korg Legacy Collection  v1.0-1.1 owners must have previously purchased and registered “v1.2 Upgrade” for access to this update.

Personally, I can’t wait to hook my MS-20 controller and run the softsynth in Reaper X64 – I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to do that for over three years, as I went 64 bit in 2009 – bridges don’t always work well, and they certainly didn’t with that synth. Should be fun!

Filed Under: Digital Synths, News, Plugins, Software, Software Synthesizers, Virtual Instruments

Orbital’s Hartnoll vs Hartnoll: The Brother Battle (Classic Interview)

February 20, 2013 By 2 Comments

Cover art from Orbital's third album Snivilisation - obviously!

Here’s a real gem for you Orbital fans out there (none of whom is a bigger Orbital fan than yours truly, let’s be clear about that, ok?) from last year that I just discovered (I need to spend more time online, obviously).

This is an interview with a bit of a weird spin: each Orbital brother gets to ask the other one a question, after which the interviewee of the moment is awarded points (1-5) from the interviewer. Phil is the oldest of the two, so he gets to ask Paul the first question.

This is an absolute must watch – brilliant stuff that is coming to us from KindaMuzik on Vimeo (many thanks, guys). Just under twenty minutes in length (there was a shorter, edited version on Vimeo too, but as I only really allow hardcore Orbital fans to visit this blog I didn’t want to serve you guys something that felt a bit watered down – here you get the full, uncut interview).

You´ll get answers to questions that may have, well, haunted you for years, such as:

- What does Phil envy about Paul?
– Which Orbital album is Paul least happy with? (I’ll admit that Paul’s reply here actually surprised me a wee bit, I thought’d he’d name the one before that. I do get his reasoning behind that choice, though.)
– Where would Paul be without Phil?
– What would Paul have liked to change about the history of Orbital?

…. and more. Enjoy!

 

Thanks again, KindaMuzik.net. Brilliant stuff.

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dboxSamples MC-808 – 1300+ Drums, Percussion Hits and EFX Samples in One Collection – for Free!

February 19, 2013 By 1 Comment

It’s certainly a good time to be a frugal computer musician these days.  Soundware developers dboxSamples have just released a nice sample library for (in Kontakt, Battery, EXS24, Ableton, Halion, NN-XT & Soundfont formats) which you can download from their website at no charge.

Their Aid01 MC-808 is a collection of classic drum hits – more than 1300 kicks, snares, hats, claps, toms, hits and EFX that were first heard on some of Roland’s most classic beatboxes and recreated in their MC-808 Groovebox. In dboxSamples  set of sounds you’ll get plenty of TR-909, TR-808, TR-707, TR-606 sounds and more.

Summed up:

  • 59 Factory Drum Kits - 16 Sounds per kit – 3 Kicks / 3 Snares / 3 Hats / 3 Toms / 2 Cym / 1 Clap / 1 Rim
  • Single Elements - 78 Snares / 57 Kicks / 69 Perc / 36 Toms / 33 Hits / 32 Fx’s / 32 Chh / 27 Ohh / 14 Zaps / 12 Crashes / 11 Noises / 9 Rides / 9 Vox / 8 Rim
  • 50 Xtra Factory Midi patterns
  • 1397 x 24bits wav files
  • Kontakt, Battery, EXS24, Ableton, Halion, NN-XT & Soundfont

And all this for free. Pretty great deal, don’t you think? So head over to dboxsamples.com to check out their audio demos and download the product. Don’t forget to take a look at their other stuff there as well – they’ve got plenty of quality sound libraries, effects and virtual instruments to choose from.

I’m looking forward to using these samples in my own productions – let me know how you go with them yourself.

Filed Under: Free Stuff, Great Deals, News, Software, Software Synthesizers, Sounds & Sample Libraries Tagged With:

Get a Plug & Mix Plugin of Your Choice for FREE

February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment

On Facebook? Want a free plugin from Plug & Mix? Of your choice (and they’ve got forty of them to choose from)? You’re in luck, because Plug & Mix will GIVE you one of their plugins if you just “like” them on Facebook. Which I will of course do myself. Best deal ever? Pretty much.

But be quick. Offers like these don’t tend to last very long, for obvious reasons. And be sure to let your friends know about this too.

Go to Plug & Mix’ website and follow instructions. Enjoy!

 

Filed Under: Free Stuff, Great Deals, News, Plugins, Software
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