73 Results for "instruments"

Guitar Gear Gems: Van Halen & Rory Gallagher guitars up for auction

Van Halen's lost Canadian Flag guitar and Rory Gallagher's battered 1961 Fender Stratocaster are up for auction! Plus, revamped Aguilar bass amps

Leak: NI Kontakt 7 is under development, possibly for Komplete 14

NI Kontakt 7 appears to be in advanced development as a beta user leaked a screenshot on Reddit detailing the software changelog.

Samples of the week: Heavyocity Play it Forward v. 2022+ more

Samples of the week! We have a hitter from Heavyocity, the "pay-what-you-want" Play It Forward bundle with sounds supporting a great cause.

UJAM Summer Madness Sale – Up to 75% off until July 17, 2022

UJAM instruments are nice to look at, simple to use, and they sound good. The Pharell Williams & Hans Zimmer-led brand is slashing prices for awhile.

Samples of the week: Essential Bass, Electric Mint, Plankton, more

Samples of the week time! We report on 6 virtual basses from the collection of multi-instrumentalist Dan Dean and other good stuff.

Native Instruments Komplete 13 on sale at near 40% off

Native Instruments Komplete 13 bundles are on sale at nearly 40% off! The offers are available from our affiliate partner Thomann.

Heavyocity Summer Sale: up to 75% off instruments, sounds, and effects

Heavyocity products are offered at discounts of up to 75% off until July 15, 2022. These are some of the hardest-hitting sounds I ever heard!

Samples of the week: Memories, Massive Gongs, deals and freebies

This week, we have Memories, Massive Gongs, Karanyi's birthday sale, and free samples from Spitfire, SampleScience, and others!

Samples of the week: Lores, Soul Drums, Winds Boutique and more

Samples? Here we go with this week's crop of sample packs and sample-based instruments. As always, there are also free downloads. Have fun!

Talkie Box 3: deep walkie-talkie, radio, and telephone voice effects

Talkie Box 3 makes voices sound like they're coming from a walkie-talkie, radio, or telephone - complete with appropriate background noise!

Developers supporting Ukraine with plug-in and instrument charity sales

Several hardware and software developers run charity sale campaigns supporting the nation of Ukraine. We are collecting and sharing links.

Best VST Plug-ins 2021: Our Top 10 Effects and Instruments this year!

Here, I present the 10 VST plug-ins and instruments that I felt most fond of in 2021. This list comes from the heart!

Komplete Now: NI launches $10/m subscription package for selected plug-ins

Native Instruments launched KOMPLETE NOW, opening up a growing selection of Komplete 13 effects and instruments for USD 10 a month.

Steinberg releases Absolute 5 collection of virtual instruments

Absolute 5 beefs up the collection to 130 GB of sound content through 28 VST and HALion instruments including Amped Elektra, Electric bass and drum re-synthesizing Backbone.

AKAI MPC 2.10: massive update adds 14 plugins and pitch correction to desktop and hardware

AKAI justed added a ton of instruments and effects to its modern MPC grooveboxes without asking for a dime. You guys are spoiled!

Hypercubes, Medussa, Serinette and other extraordinary instruments

Mateo Mena is an "Electronic Luthier" whose work includes modular electronics, bioluminescent sound and light patterns and artisan sequences.

MXL Revelation MINI FET Mic: Tube mic sound in a super-compact FET package

MXL is reworking is tube microphone tech into a compact FET-based format, hoping to retain audio quality while increasing flexibility. Ambitious, but not impossible by any means!

China Impression: Impressive collection of authentic Chinese instruments

Filling up a whopping 310GB of sample space China Impression samples over 60 individual instruments for a comprehensive collection of Chinese instruments.

Captain Plugins V5.0: Chords, beats, melodies, basslines and lots of hooks

A new version of the Captain Plugins brings more Captain Chord Progressions, Captain Beat beat-making, Captain Melody tune generation, Captain Deep basslines and Captain Play keyboard integration.

Best Sample Packs this Week: Alpha Organ, Muze Bass Elements, Klang Grained Violin

Our weekly round up of the best sample packs contains some delicious organs, basses, violins... and a neat little collection of free samples. Plenty of delectable sounds for you to choose from!

Best Sample Packs this Week: HERZ-OG, Granulizer, Everwave, Harmonium, Room Tones USA

Welcome to our new series of weekly round-ups, bringing you the best and boldest offering sin the world of sample packs and instruments! Some cracking products in our first issue, too. Check 'em out.

NAMM 2020: Serrano 87 pays tribute to the K87 German condenser

Serrano 87 is a high quality replica of a very famous mic with hand-made K87 capsule and SER-T13 transformer, original 2N3819FET amplifier biased to genuine spec, and Styroflex capacitors...

NAMM 2020: Tracktion announce Waveform 11 and more RetroMod, Waverazer and Biotek 2

Tracktion Corporation has set out its plan for 2020 which includes a huge update to Waveform, more RetroMod synths, updates to Waverazer and Biotek 2. Oh, and there'll be a new free DAW.

NAMM 2020: UVI JP Legacy celebrates galactic Japanese analog synths

UVI has released a collection of 4 instruments inspired by iconic cosmically named Roland analog synthesizers. They are calling it the JP Legacy bundle.