One of the most common instruments in popular music—from Bach to Adele, or Bill Evans to Billy Joel—has been the piano.
If you’re a producer, it is very likely that you have at least one piano plugin—even if you never intended to, as so many DAWs offer a sampled grand Read more...
Over the past few years, Toontrack has been busy creating some of the most exciting and innovating sampling products on the market. Their flagship Superior Drummer plugin is by far the best sounding and most comprehensive drum sampling software available. More recently, Toontrack brought their sampling skills into the world Read more...
Looking for a new twist on an old standby? You’ve just found one.
Paper Stone Instruments, a new Kontakt Library development company with some fresh ideas, has just launched Palm Mute Piano, a 2.6GB 64 note Kontakt instrument. The instrument is built around the principle of Palm Muting, which is Read more...
Propellerhead has released Radical Piano – a new Rack Extension instrument that brings a wide range of “natural and bendable piano sounds” to Reason and Reason Essentials.
Using a blend of sampled pianos and physical modeling synthesis, Radical Piano deliveres a range of piano sounds – from pristine concert grands Read more...
Most composers, engineers and producers will tell you that while you can get remarkably close with MIDI sounds and plug-in samplers, there are always a few instruments that seem too intricate and complex to be represented accurately in the box. At the top of the list would certainly be drums Read more...
