The Electronic Garden has released Joystick Journeys – The VCS3 Collection, a sample library featuring sounds from the EMS VCS3.
This particular collection of samples was created in order to capture the VCS3 in all its chaotic (and sometimes noisy) glory. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill synth collection. Yes, there are a number of chromatically “in-tune” patches, multi-sampled up the keys.
Many of these were created with the help of Expert Sleepers’ awesome Silent Way MIDI-to-CV conversion software (http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/), but many of them were made by painstakingly adjusting the VCS3′s “Scale” knobs. Why? Because that’s the way my heroes did it way back in the 1970s. It means that sometimes the oscillators surge and beat against one another in interesting ways, especially when the matrix is full of pins!
Joystick Journeys – The VCS3 Collection features
- Over 850 16/44.1 kHz and 24-bit/44.1 kHz .wav format samples.
- Over 70 patches for Kontakt.
- 101 REX files, tempos 100, 110 and 120 BPM.
Joystick Journeys – The VCS3 Collection is available to purchase for $20 USD.
More information: The Electronic Garden / Joystick Journeys – The VCS3 Collection
Expert Sleeping has announced it is now shipping the ES-3, a lightpipe/CV interface.
The ES-3 is a Eurorack format module which converts eight channels of ADAT Lightpipe input to DC coupled outputs on 3.5mm jacks, for the ultimate convenience in connection of a DAW directly to analogue synthesizers.
The outputs can be used as control voltages (CVs), for example with software such as Expert Sleepers Silent Way, and can also be used as audio outputs at high, modular synth-compatible levels.
With the ES-3, a single optical cable is all that is need to bring direct CV control from your DAW right into the heart of a modular system.
The ES-3 is now available direct from Expert Sleepers for £186 GBP (including VAT and delivery), and soon from various international distributors.
More information: Expert Sleepers / ES-3
Expert Sleepers has released version 1.6.5 of Silent Way, adding Silent Way SMUX to the suite of plug-ins designed for use with analogue synthesisers.
Silent Way SMUX provides a hack to workaround the reduction in channel count over ADAT connections when running the audio system at 88.1/96kHz.
When using an audio interface to produce your CVs that is connected via ADAT (for example, the Expert Sleepers ES-3 Lightpipe/CV Interface), and when the audio system is being run at a ‘double speed’ rate (typically 96kHz), the number of audio channels that can be sent down the ADAT connection is reduced from the usual 8 down to 4. The 4 double-speed channels are multiplexed onto the 8 ADAT channels – this system is usually referred to as ‘S/MUX’, or sample multiplexing.
The Silent Way SMUX plug-in gets around this reduction in channel count by providing a complementary multiplexing scheme, which takes 4 channels of CVs and combines them onto 2 channels of the double-speed audio stream. When the ADAT output is then decoded by a normal-speed interface (such as the ES-3 mentioned above), the channels are demultiplexed, and so you get your 4 channels of CV back again.
Silent Way for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available to purchase for $49 USD (plus VAT if applicable).
More information: Expert Sleepers / Silent Way
Expert Sleepers has released version 1.0.2 of Spectral Conquest, an FFT frequency spectrum manipulation effect plug-in for Windows and Mac.
Spectral Conquest is an effect plug-in that lets you directly manipulate the frequency spectrum of audio signals.
Changes in Spectral Conquest v1.0.2
- Fixed reporting of plug-in latency to host.
- Fixed GUI issues in REAPER on Windows.
- Mac VST version now supports native 64 bit usage.
Note: only the VST versions (Mac and Windows) are updated.
More information: Expert Sleepers / Spectral Conquest
Expert Sleepers has announced the ES-3, a new lightpipe/CV interface.
The ES-3 is a Eurorack format module which converts eight channels of ADAT Lightpipe input to DC coupled outputs on 3.5mm jacks, for the ultimate convenience in connection of a DAW directly to analogue synthesizers.
The outputs can be used as control voltages (CVs), for example with software such as Expert Sleepers Silent Way, and can also be used as audio outputs at high, modular synth-compatible levels.
With the ES-3, a single optical cable is all that is need to bring direct CV control from your DAW right into the heart of a modular system.
ES-3 features
- Panel width: 8HP.
- Module depth: 53mm.
- Input connection: optical, ADAT Lightpipe standard, 44.1/48kHz.
- D/A conversion: 24 bit, 105dB SNR typical.
- Output connections: 8x 3.5mm jacks, DC-coupled.
- Maximum output voltage: approximately ±10V DC.
- Indicators: LED for ADAT clock sync; 2 LEDs per channel indicate output voltage (+ve/-ve).
Available as standard with a black aluminium or translucent black acrylic front panel. There will also be a limited edition of 25 individually numbered modules with an orange acrylic panel to match the ES-1/ES-2-2 modules.
The ES-3 is expected to be available from February 2011. Pricing TBD.
More information: Expert Sleepers / ES-3
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Expert Sleepers has released version 3.1.3 of Crossfade Loop Synth, a sample playback synth instrument and sampler effect for Windows and Mac.
From version 3, Crossfade Loop Synth is actually two plug-ins: Crossfade Loop Synth and Crossfade Loop Synth Effect. The effect version takes the power of Crossfade Loop Synth and turns it into a live sampler, a looper and a very unusual and powerful delay effect.
Changes in Crossfade Loop Synth v3.1.3
- Fixed: Bug in the plug-in’s response to a MIDI All Notes Off message. In Plogue Bidule, this could cause a problem with the drones not reactivating when a plug-in was switched in and out of Bypass mode.
Crossfade Loop Synth for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available to purchase for $49 USD (plus VAT if applicable).
More information: Expert Sleepers / Crossfade Loop Synth
