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September 28, 2005 |
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 Spectrasonics: Cutting-Edge Virtual
Instruments and Sample Libraries
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What's New
So, are you going to make it to AES in New
York
in a couple of weeks? Should be a pretty good show for those of you who
are audio pros; though, as usual, there will be few library companies
making the scene. Still, there are always plenty of products that
affect
most library businesses—whether it's recording equipment, music, or
business software. Early October in New York is usually a fantastic
time, weather-wise. And if you're into baseball, the hated/beloved
Yankees will likely be in town battling through the
playoffs—unless
they don't make it, in which case you want to steer clear of wherever
team owner George Steinbrenner is hanging out. If they do make it,
though, getting tickets and then blowing off the dinner with the Sony
rep with some lame excuse will offer you two very big challenges. A
third would be getting ducats for the Monty Python Broadway musical,
Spamalot—also better, if not cheaper, than a business
dinner. We wish you luck!
Also, I was looking through some back issues of The Sampler
the
other night and realized that it's been a while since we've talked
about
production music companies/news here. No slight was intended; we just
got carried away talking about effects libraries, and the sample
libraries. Rest assured, we will return to that popular topic very
soon!
In the meantime, I think you'll enjoy this interview with Spectrasonics
founder Eric Persing—a good guy who does great work! And you can
hip me to your latest happenings by writing to blair@blairjackson.com.
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Inside Info
Spectrasonics: Cutting-Edge
Virtual Instruments and Sample Libraries
You can listen to industry buzz to find out what's hot,
but that will take you only so far. I became intrigued by Spectrasonics'
product lines because in my capacity as a writer for Mix and Millimeter,
I kept interviewing musicians who used Spectrosonics' "virtual
instruments," such as Atmosphere and Trilogy, and media producers who
liked its diverse sample libraries, which include such popular titles
as
Liquid Grooves, Vocal Planet, Bass Legends (which
features Marcus Miller, Abraham Laboriel, and John Patitucci),
Bizarre Guitars, Heart of Africa, and two volumes of
Hans Zimmer Guitars.
For the past several years, the company has been less interested in
creating new libraries than in giving musicians and producers greater
control over existing ones, and in creating its own virtual
instruments.
Groove Control, which was developed along with Spectrasonics' U.S.
distributor, Ilio
Entertainment (see the September 14, 2005, Sampler) and debuted in 1999, gave users
complete control over elements of tempo, pitch, pattern, and feel on
certain Spectrasonics sample libraries. Then, three years ago, it
introduced the first of its software-based virtual instruments. The
aforementioned Atmosphere, for example, has a 3GB core library of more
than 1,000 sound patches that can be mixed and matched into more than
one million combinations. It's a native plug-in for Digidesign Pro
Tools,
Motu Digital
Performer, Apple
Logic, and Steinberg Cubase and Nuendo. more >>
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