Guzheng, as one of the most representative Chinese instruments, first appeared around the Warring States period (475 – 221 BC), then became extremely popular during the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 AD) and spread to all neighboring areas ever since (e.g., Guzheng is the forefather of Japanese Koto). Guzheng was originally a rather simple instrument with only five… Read More »
Nanxiao (Southern Xiao) is a bamboo flute of the Xiao family. Unlike Dizi, Xiao has no membrane. Nanxiao is mostly popular in the Fujian area of southern China. Like the Japanese Shakuhachi, NanXiao is the offspring of ChiBa and DongXiao from the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 AD). Contrary to the upbeat, happy-trigger sound of Dizi, NanXiao… Read More »
Bruno is an “old school” synthesizer with a “new modern sound” offering leads, strings, bass and an easy to use interface. Features: Arp with Live Function. Delay and 3 Stages Chorus. Hard Clipping and Tube Distortion. Multiwave/Superwave Oscillator. 12/24db Filter with Self Oscillation. VCA with ADSR/Gate Modus. LFO with Fade In. 128 Sound Templates. Manual English/German. Single Voice… Read More »
Audio Damage’s first instrument, Tattoo, is a drum synthesizer where everything old is new again. Featuring 12 independent “voice-tuned” synthesizer topologies loosely based on the X0X series, and a sophisticated step/mod sequencer, Tattoo is at home in all forms of electronic music production. Features: 12 Drum Synths: Tattoo comes equipped with twelve different voices, utilizing Audio Damage’s custom… Read More »
nrg-A Synthesizer produces Bass, Leads, Pads, piano , Organ, Sequence. Gate effect. Ideal for the creation of the trance and ambient compositions. Features: 16 voices / 256 patches. 3 VCOs each with 11 waves: sine, parsine, triangle, triasine, saw, saw mg, ramp, ramp mg, pulse, white and pink noise. Pulse length, phase, FM, sync, key retrigger controls and… Read More »
Sonic Charge Microtonic (also known as “µTonic”) is a drum and percussion synthesizer combined with a pattern based drum-machine engine. You can use µTonic as a sound module to play drum sounds from your MIDI keyboard or sequencer, or you can use the built-in pattern engine to play drum patterns in sync with your sequencer. The sound of… Read More »
Purity is a next generation of digital musical instrument workstation and PCM Sound Module / Rompler software. Feature Summary. 16-part multi-instrument with GM Support Channel link function allows patch layering. Key/velocity range for splitting sound zone. General MIDI normal/rhythm sound and control support. 2 modes designed for each channel purpose – Melody/Drum. Integrated Mixer Realtime audio level meters.… Read More »
String is a virtual instrument that emulates the beautiful sound of the polyphonic string synthesizer. String’s authentic tone comes from its accurate emulation of the divide-down oscillator technology behind the lush ensemble synths of the ’70s. String has two individual sound generating Layers, each housing three phase-locked oscillator stops at 16′, 8′ and 4′ ranges for Layer 1,… Read More »
Pure-Pten is virtual analogue synthesizer with a combination of Frequency Modulation (FM), Ring Modulation (RM), Oscillator Sync, Distortion and Subtractive Synthesis. Features: 10 voices. 3 Oscillators per voice / 21 waveforms / oscillator 3 with super wave function. 1 Multi-mode Filter 12/24dB, TP/HP-BP. 1 Filter-ADSR / timestretch function T*1, T*5, T*10. 1 VCA-ADSR / switch from linear to… Read More »
Lemonstrum 3 is an Acoustic Guitar Strummer plug-in – it acts as a chord sample player. Each of the 12 keys on the keyboard (A-G#) triggers the chord you assign to it. You can load up to three samples: different strokes of the same chord for each trigger, which Lemonstrum will then play alternately whenever you press the… Read More »
Virtual Instrument Jupiter-8V simulates an analog synthesizer Roland Jupiter 8. Use the improved version of the technology TAE (True Analog Emulation), is also used in such virtual instruments like Moog Modular V, Minimoog V, ARP 2600 V, CS-80V Prophet V. Each voice has two oscillators (triangle, sawtooth, pulse and square waveforms, the second oscillator can produce a square… Read More »
The basic idea of Supreme Pianos is coming from 3D graphic rendering. It uses Physical modeling to shape the sound’s “skeleton” of the piano, and then mapping a series of harmony components on to the skeleton to achieve an authentic sound. Supreme Pianos does not rely on sampling, has a small memory footprint and extreme low CPU usage… Read More »
PULS is a monophonic pulse wave synthesizer with simple controls but complex sounds. From two pulse wave oscillators you can get chunky basses, scorching leads, retro chiptune, dusty lofi and oddball noises. With an unusual isometric pixel-art interface, what it lacks in knobs, it makes up for in sound. It features custom pulse waveforms, unison, oscillator sync and… Read More »
ChineeWinds is a sample based Chinese “Dizi”. Dizi (bamboo flute) has been a traditional and popular instrument in China for many centuries and as an essential Chinese instrument, it is still widely used today. It can be heard everywhere ranging from modern Chinese film scores, to modern Chinese pop music (e.g. 12 Girls Band). There are many… Read More »
ChineeHuluSi: The Riveting Bottle Gourds from the South of Clouds. HuluSi is a free-reed wind instrument from China. “Hulu” is the Chinese name for bottle gourd; “Si”, silk, is used here to describe the unrelenting characteristic of HuluSi’s vibrating tail tone. The history of HuluSi is not well documented other than that it may have been used by… Read More »
ChineeSuona comprises of two Suonas (a big Suona and a small Suona) with different note ranges. It comes with a meticulously woven 380 MB sampleset (All samples are recorded in 24 bit 96 kHz). What is a Suona? Suona (the Chinese shawm) was originated from Persia and then slowly adopted by the Chinese in the course of history.… Read More »
MaTouQin (horse-headed fiddle, aka morin khuur) is a faithful sample-based re-creation of one of the most representative traditional Mongolian instruments. Matouqin is believed to be originated from the nomadic people during the Tang Dynasty (7th – 10th centuries), and became widely known circa Genghis Khan’s reign. Nowadays, like many other Mongolian legacies, Matouqin has become an essential part… Read More »
ChineeGuQin is a sample-based emulation of a GuQin. “The Vivacious Vessel of Harmony” GuQin is among the few most distinctive and representative classical Chinese instruments ever. The written record of it can be traced back to at least 3,000 years ago. It’s a zither similar to GuZheng, but since GuQin does not have bridges, it is far more… Read More »
AOM Factory – Invisible Limiter – AOM Invisible Limiter – transparent look-ahead brickwall limiter with automatic adjustment of time attack / release parameters. Invisible Limiter algorithm reduces the differences between the original and the processed material. This behavior prevents the color of your material from the final stage of the limitation. Even when processing stiff enough, it is… Read More »
Britson is inspired by the classic British 8014 console. One of the most difficult tasks, in my humble opinion, is to recreate the saturation characteristic of analog equipment. Copying the harmonic content of a particular piece of equipment is not enough to generate a nice, convincing, analog-like saturation. Many other factors have a far more influential impact on… Read More »
