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Spitfire Audio has created another solid contender in their character-laden Artisanal Series, this time with Artisan Cello for Kontakt 5. The Artisan libraries are recorded in Spitfire Audio’s
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It can be challenging to make a multidimensional sampled orchestral string instrument. There are a number of titles that can do bombastic or single-dimension strings reasonably well, but
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Zed Synth from Jazzman Ltd. is a unique blend of parametric wavetable oscillators, physical modeling, and modular architecture. This complexity is tempered by a well-written help tag system,
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With FM4 Primal Audio accomplished 2 seemingly mutually exclusive tasks. They’ve created an credible instrument based on the original Yamaha DX series (complete with all its idiosyncrasies), yet
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Audiowarp’s Boards of Canada Synthesis packs (BOCS1 and BOCS2) offer some hazy warm pads and drones inspired by the Scottish masters of downtempo. The samples were meticulously created
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Wave Alchemy established a strong precedent with their Transistor Revolution MkII Kontakt instrument. It’s my go-to sample-based instrument for 808 and 909 sounds that approach (and in some
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Sugar Bytes has raised the bar for pattern based playable effect instruments with their latest release, Looperator. Following in the footsteps of their earlier works, Artillery and Effectrix,
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Native Instruments has partnered with Swedish modeling wizards Softube to release Vintage Compressors. Their VC76, VC2A, and VC160 are based on 3 studio classics, the Universal Audio 1176,
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