iZotope announced on Cyber Monday a special sale for Shutter Edit Multi Effect processor. Until end of year year, you can buy Shutter Edit with a 80% discount and you get Mobius Filter plugin for free. Really interesting offer for glitch and shuttering interested music producers.
Junkie XL, the composer of the several great soundtracks (Deadpool…) announced today a new series of videos about his Synthesizer collection. The name of the show which will broadcast Wednesdays on Youtube calls “Gear of the Week” and will show per week one Synthesizer he uses in his scores. Really looking forward for this new show on youtube.
Another great news: Junkie XL will release on 2 of December a new soundtrack for a RedBull movie full of Synthesizer sounds. Available here for pre-order.
It’s again time for a exceptional sale which many of you have already bought. AIR Music Technology announced today again a No-Brainer Sale with a 99% discount on their Xpand!2 Workstation. For only 1 USD, you can buy now the Xpand!2 Workstation at VST Buzz. Sorry to say that but if you don’t but this one for 1$, you are silly. Honestly, for one dollar, you receive here 2500 sounds which can be tweaked. Consider to buy it. It cost only 1$.
Additional to these deal, Plugin Boutique offers for 76$ a great deal for upgrading to the complete bundle of Synthesizers, effects, patches and more. For 77$, you receive the perfect solution for making music with a low budget.
Every year it’s the same procedure. Waves announced their Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals. Only today on Cyber Monday, you receive on top to the big discounts, a 30$ discount code. You can buy now a Waves plugin (Synthesizer, effects, mastering and mixing) starting at 9$. Really interesting offer.
Photosounder is a company with very interesting and unique products. One of this products is the Photosounder Synthesizer. With this program, you can load in a photo of choice and you can synthesis this one in sound. Sounds crazy but it the truth. You can transform instantly a picture in sounds. For limited time, you buy this exceptional tool of sound design with a 50% OFF discount. You receive also on their other products the same discount.
I’m happy to announce the Predator 2 Synthesizer and the eXplorer 4 Bundle. I was Beta Tester for some days and knew the new feature also a bit longer. Personally, the new update really brings the plugin to another level. In the past, many users was a bit frustrated about the fact that Predator is still not updated with a better GUI or some other features. Some of the new features are known from the Blue 2 Synthesizer and they bring personally the synths to complete new sound design ideas. Also the morphing feature between waveforms, kind of wavetable, waveform drawing really expand the possibilities of Predator 2. Really cool und good sounding update for this Synthesizer plugin. As bonus for the eXplorer 4 upgrade users, Rob Papen will release RP Verb 2 in 2017 as free update inside eXplorer 4.
As an award-winning product, Predator has been making its musical mark as a meaty mainstay of Rob Papen’s lengthening lineup of world-class soft synths since its introduction back in 2009. That’s a long time in the furiously fast, ever-widening world of music technology — testament to the popular product’s proven strengths, surely? Take a good thing and make it better best describes Predator2, then.
Indeed, in the first instance, Predator2’s pliable GUI (Graphical User Interface) has once again been given the trademark Rob Papen treatment, designed so that (almost) all of the main controls are always visible onscreen, making it both inspirational and intuitive in use. Ultimately, though, time and patience can be an issue for some users, so this time Rob Papen has helpfully included an EASY PAGE to cater to those not needing simultaneous access to so many controls. There they can quickly find the most important parameters to tweak a sound or even use the handy preset VARIATIONS function, which is an intelligent randomiser.
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Improvements in Predator2 are much more than simply skin deep. Digging deeper still, it is packed to the teeth with powerful new features to die for. First and foremost, each of the three oscillators are now dual-equipped affairs with WAVE A and WAVE B including a variety of mixed and morphed waves between them. That said, there are now no fewer than eight editable USER WAVES which can be combined into wave-sets that are traversable in different ways. Each of those USER WAVES is editable with up to 256 different partials and advanced controls to edit and shape the wavetables. With many wavetables and wave-sets included in Predator2, the all-important building blocks of its inspirational sound abilities are already streets ahead of its popular predecessor.
Pushing onwards and upwards, all oscillators and filters are now fully stereo. Speaking of which, the flexible FILTER section is bolstered by a much-expanded second filter (FILTER 2) section with full controls and envelopes, plus a third high-pass filter (HP FILTER) section for further fine-tuning. To say that Predator2 sounds ‘phat’ is surely something of an understatement!
UNISON MODE has also been improved with up to six unison sub-voices for each full voice, allowing unison to work with any PLAY MODE. Meanwhile, more movement comes courtesy of an all-new XY PRO section with recordable paths that can be used to modulate all Predator2 controls.
Continuing with yet more notable improvements and additions, a dual arpeggiator (ARP A and ARP B) with Join mode means that users can create up to 32-step arpeggios — alternatively, they can try the all-new Sequencer Arp mode for yet more musical inspiration; increased envelopes, LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators) — up from two (in Predator) to four (in Predator2), and modulation steps — up from eight (in Predator) to 20 (in Predator2) with an ADVANCED (modulation) MODE allowing users to step limits and LOWER THR and UPPER THR amounts also add to the excitement of inspirational sound design, as does ADV/CHORD (advanced chord) editing and dual three-band EQ with LP (lowpass) and HP (high-pass) filter that can be PRE-FX or POST-FX.
Finally, each section can have its own presets and directly responds to copy, paste, and clear commands. Add a Big Screen mode, much improved preset management with FIND PRESET mode and tagging (over 5,000 finest presets from Rob Papen himself and various artists to get users started), and Predator2 looks like it is all set to last longer than its long-lasting predecessor… perhaps!
Electro-Harmonix released some months ago a great emulation of the old Mini-Synthesizer. Unfortunately this app doesn’t have a patch import and export feature. I wrote with the developer after the release and he guaranteed me that this features and other new stuff will coming to the app. For this reason, I created a Patch Book with 20 new sounds for this great Synthesizer.
The Patch Book is free of charge but I’m happy to see some donations which help me to continue this blog and youtube channel. You have the possibility to make this in the webstore where you can download the patch book. Available here:Electro-Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer Patch Book EHX Mini Synthesizer is available here:
It’s Cyber Monday and the sale days continues. Heavyocity announced on Black Friday a special 50% OFF discount on their plugins and sample libraries. The new Punish plugin is exclude in this offer. This company offers really high quality sample libraries for Kontakt 5. Personally I don’t have yet play around with one of the sample content but I have played around with their Reaktor products which are really nice.
The sale is not over. Sinevibes announced a 30% OFF sale on their big amount of different plugins. Unfortunately, the plugins exist only for mac systems. If you use a mac as production system and search something special for your arsenal than one of the instruments or effect plugin could be something for you. Their plugins has the focus to be very special. A lot of modulation action, morphing and other stuff, you can find their really interesting products. Check out below the current Black Friday deals and for some of the products, I have created in the past a demo video.
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