Archive for July, 2022

Spitfire Audio releases Originals Epic Choir, new software synthesizer featuring Sound Of A 50 Voice Vocal Ensemble

 

Spitfire Audio has introduced Originals Epic Choir, a new software synth that features the sound of a 50-piece large-scale ensemble of London’s finest vocalists, recorded in the hallowed (Lyndhurst) Hall at London’s legendary AIR Studios.

 

“Originals Epic Choir features 50 singers, which is the biggest ensemble of voices that we’ve recorded yet,” notes Spitfire Audio in-house composer Homay Schmitz. “It’s been recorded at AIR Studios’ Lyndhurst Hall, so you get those beautiful acoustics; with it also being a former church, you get the singers in a traditional habitat as well.”

 

Features:

 

  • 50-piece ensemble
  • Recorded at Lyndhurst Hall, AIR Studios — home of blockbuster scores
  • Three bespoke signals (Close, Tree, Ethereal)
  • Split into two sections — Sopranos & Altos / Tenors & Bass — both sections offering identical articulations
  • Classic shorts and longs, as well as ‘episodic’ vowel blending textures and short staccato syllables, alternating between vowel sounds

 

 

Presets:

 

  • Sopranos & Altos: Long Ahh — A long sustained note, sung on the vowel sound “ahh”
  • Sopranos & Altos: Long Mmm — A long sustained note, hummed on the consonant “mmm”
  • Sopranos & Altos: Episodic Combo 1 — A long episodically changing sustained note, blending between a combination of different vowel sounds, for a textural and shifting sound
  • Sopranos & Altos: Episodic Combo 2 — A long episodically changing sustained note, blending between a combination of different vowel sounds, for a textural and shifting sound
  • Sopranos & Altos: Short Staccato Syllables — A short, sharp sound, sung on one of up to seven different syllabic sounds
  • Sopranos & Altos: Short Staccato Syllables (keyswitch) — A short, sharp sound, sung on one of up to seven different syllabic sounds, with keyswitch functionality to change between specific syllables
  • Tenors & Basses: Long Ahh — A long sustained note, sung on the vowel sound “ahh”
  • Tenors & Basses: Long Mmm — A long sustained note, hummed on the consonant “mmm”
  • Tenors & Basses: Episodic Combo 1 — A long episodically changing sustained note, blending between a combination of different vowel sounds, for a textural and shifting sound
  • Tenors & Basses: Episodic Combo 2 — A long episodically changing sustained note, blending between a combination of different vowel sounds, for a textural and shifting sound
  • Tenors & Basses: Short Staccato Syllables — A short, sharp sound, sung on one of up to seven different syllabic sounds
  • Tenors & Basses: Short Staccato Syllables (keyswitch) — A short, sharp sound, sung on one of up to seven different syllabic sounds, with keyswitch functionality to change between specific syllables

 

Controls:

 

  • Reverb — A realistic Hall-style impulse response
  • Release — A release trigger which only applies to long patches
  • Tightness — This cuts further into the note to make it tighter and only applies to short patches

 

Signals:

  • Close – Valve spot mics summed together for a direct and upfront image of the string ensemble.
  • Tree – A decca tree microphone array, giving a spacious and enveloping sound.
  • Ethereal – A treated signal (saturation, reverb, EQ) which adds texture, brightness and width to the vocals, while retaining an organic feel

 

It is available now as an AAX-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-compatible plug-in, supporting Native Instruments’ NKS (NATIVE KONTROL STANDARD) for Mac (OS X 10.13 – macOS 12) and Windows (7, 8, 10, and II — latest Service Pack)

 

Originals Epic Choir cost £29.00/$29.00 /€29.00 (inc. VAT).

 

 

Multimedia AI Machine Modeling, a new artificial intelligence systems uses Neural Networks to Recreate your Hardware Rig

 

Multimedia has introduced AI Machine Modeling – a new artificial intelligence powered system that they say is their most revolutionary amp modeling technology yet.

 

AI Machine Modeling software enables you, without any custom hardware, model the sound of any amp, cabinet or combo, plus pedals like distortion, overdrive, fuzz, EQ or boost. They say it can do this accurately enough that the results are “virtually indistinguishable from the real thing”.

 

The system works by analyzing your dry signal against the processed signal, and then creating an algorithm that models your hardware rig. Complete rigs are entire signal chains including amp + cab, and different types of FX pedals such as overdrive, distortion, boost, EQ and wah.

 

Apparently, it is unclear if this technology will have useful applications beyond guitars. If it could model effects chains applied to synths, it could be very useful for synthesists.

 

 

AmpliTube TONEX, a complete software ecosystem based on the powerful new AI Machine Modeling™ technology is here.

 

Find out more on IK Multimedia Music Products website.

 

AVP Synth’s new ADS-7 mk2 Analog Drum Synthesizer Hands-On Demo

 

AVP Synthesizers has shared this video demo of their new ADS-7 mk2 Analog Drum Synthesizer, which is available in white, blue, green, orange, grey, black and purple.

 

All sound has been recorded directly from stereo out of the unit (24/48000). Some delay and reverb effects applied at times. All panoramic of each sound sections are also done from the unit itself.

 

Sequence 1 – 0:02

Sequence 2 – 1:54

Sequence 3 – 3:32

Sequence 4 – 4:52

Sequence 5 – 6:12

Sequence 6 – 7:40

Sequence 7 – 9:40

 

Features:

 

  • Fully analog, discrete components;
  • 7 individual sound channels: Bass Drum (BD), Clap (CL), Open Hat and Closed Hat (OH/CH) with choking on/off, 3 separate Generators (GEN) with Band-pass and Low-pass filter options for creating all kinds of analog tones and fx ranging from bass, toms “pew”, snares, noises, zaps, clicks, sticks and more;
  • 65 knobs/controls for different sound shaping options: from standard noise to metallic tones;
  • Built-in 16-track MIDI sequencer created by Bruno Dupeyron (France);
  • Up to 16 banks with 16 patterns (256 patterns and 16 chains);
  • Ability to load/save 16 Banks, Patterns and Chains;
  • MIDI In/MIDI Out, Sync;
  • 5 mm individual trigger in for each sound (x7 in total);
  • Four 3.5 mm individual trigger outputs to control external devices;
  • Stereo and individual 6.3 mm output for each sound

 

Find out more on the AVP Synthesizers website.