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The Bob Moog Foundation has announced an impOSCar2 Software Controller Raffle.

A raffle to benefit the Bob Moog Foundation begins today. Two lucky winners will each receive the new impOSCar2 Controller from Touch Digital Controllers and an entire suite of five virtual instruments from GForce software—a prize package valued at nearly $2,500.

The raffle will continue until all 500 tickets have been sold. Because the BMF will be awarding two complete packages, each entry has a 1 in 250 chance of winning. Tickets are $20 each, or you can improve your odds by buying six for $100.

Raffle tickets are available from the Bob Moog Foundation’s web store at www.moogfoundation.org/shop/

More information: Bob Moog Foundation

GForce Software has announced the release of PC versions of impOSCar2, the successor of the software synthesizer emulation of the OSCar synthesizer.

Since the original impOSCar release we’ve carefully compiled user feedback and over the course of eighteen months, in another true labour of love, we’ve incorporated the best of these within impOSCar2 creating a synth that positively oozes more character, more playability, more expression and more detailed sound sculpting opportunities than could have been imagined a few years ago.

impOSCar2 features

• Successor to the multi-award winning impOSCar.
• Two Oscillators & 13 Waveforms.
• New Mono Unison and Poly Unison Modes.
• New Aux Mod Section with comprehensive routing.
• Programmable Additive Wave Matrix Grid.
• Nine Filter Types with Drive, Cutoff, Q and Separation.
• New Chord Memory and single note retrigger.
• 6 Portamento modes with new Unison glide voice spread.
• New Unison Voice Pan.
• New Note Pan Modes.
• Programmable Velocity Responses and New Aftertouch.
• Improved Arpeggiator.
• New Instrument and Effects Versions.
• Small, Regular or Large Interface Sizes.
• New Ring Modulator.
• New Chorus Modes.
• 1000+ Patch library featuring sounds created by original OSCar users inc Billy Currie (Ultravox) Darren Price & Rick Smith (Underworld) & Paul Wiffen (the original OSCar sound designer and programmer for Stevie Wonder & Jean Michel Jarre).

The impOSCar2 is now available for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/Standalone), priced at £139.99 GBP incl. VAT.

GForce has also released the ChamberTron, an expansion pack for the M-Tron Pro virtual instrument.

If you’re unfamiliar with Chamberlin® musical instruments, please take the time to read about them in the Original Instrument section and check out the video showing our Chamberlin instruments.

Because if you thought that tape playing instruments started and ended with the Mellotron®, you’ll probably be blown away to discover that the entire tape playing instrument genre was invented by a Wisconsin based inventor, Harry Chamberlin, back in the 1950s.

ChamberTron features

• The sounds of the legendary ChamberTron.
• Only available via download..
• Over 40 new tape banks.
• 35 Notes per tape bank.
• Optional ChamberTron Interface design.
• 100s of Patches, many from luminaries including Dean & Jarrod (I Monster), David Hentschel (Genesis & Elton John) & Jem Godfrey (Frost).

ChamberTron for M-Tron Pro is available to purchase for £69.99 GBP incl. VAT.

More information: GForce / impOSCar2 / ChamberTron

GForce Software has announced the release of the Mac version of impOSCar 2, the successor to the impOSCar software synthesizer, a component emulation of the rare and classic OSCar synthesizer.

Some say we’ve behaved like over-protective parents, refusing to let our corpulent teenager out for fear of it bullying the other kids on the block. That may indeed be true but we’re finally pleased to announce that the Mac version of impOSCar2 is being given its independence.

impOSCar 2 key features

• Successor to the multi-award winning impOSCar.
• Two Oscillators & 13 Waveforms.
• New Mono Unison and Poly Unison Modes.
• New Aux Mod Section with comprehensive routing.
• Programmable Additive Wave Matrix Grid.
• Nine Filter Types with Drive, Cutoff, Q and Separation.
• New Chord Memory and single note retrigger.
• 6 Portamento modes with new Unison glide voice spread.
• New Unison Voice Pan.
• New Note Pan Modes.
• Programmable Velocity Responses and New Aftertouch.
• Improved Arpeggiator.
• New Instrument and Effects Versions.
• Small, Regular or Large Interface Sizes.
• New Ring Modulator.
• New Chorus Modes.
• 1000+ Patch library featuring sounds created by original OSCar users inc Billy Currie (Ultravox) Darren Price & Rick Smith (Underworld) & Paul Wiffen (the original OSCar sound designer and programmer for Stevie Wonder & Jean Michel Jarre).

impOSCar 2 is currently available to purchase for Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/Standalone) for €139 EUR excl. VAT. A Windows version will follow soon.

More information: GForce Software / impOSCar 2

Feeltune has announced the release of the Rhizome, the groove machine with and for VST.

What are the differences with the competition? The Rhizome is a hybrid in which you install virtual instruments and effects in a VST/VSTi format (For Pc). No more limitation in terms of sounds and effects; with the Rhizome you choose the style of sound and instruments you want to play. Once downloaded you can mix your plug-in with the mixing desk; create your sequences, patterns and tracks with the multi modes and multi tracks sequencer which is the brain working behind the scene.

What are the differences with the other hybrids already on the market? The Rhizome is not just a keyboard with a Pc or a Pc Rack; it is a real musical instrument which has been designed for the pleasure to play and compose music and is equipped with software running an innovative interface with numerous displays and controller.

The Rhizome is a real time instrument: programming, recording, sampling, adding instruments and effects, tuning; all you do is live! There is no interruption when you play on stage or record in a studio. The objective: to free up your inspiration and creativity.

The development of the Rhizome took several years of R&D; 50 engineers and the validation of around 10 user groups. Today the Rhizome is an aggregate of the best technology and know-how.

Rhizome features

• 102 controllers including 16 dynamic back-lit pads and 32 endless rotary knobs.
• 4 large display (24 bits colors) areas provide information to the user on the functionality, at any given time, of one of the controls, according to the software currently in use.
• Audio interface by RME Audio, for stability and high standard sound quality.
• Various in- and outputs allow for connecting and using screens, mousse, MIDI controllers; hard disk and/or additional audio card.
• Includes software by Feeltune (samplers, drum machine, synthesizers, sound effects, and sequencers), GForce (synthesizers) and Ohm Force (effects).
• Compatible with third-party VST and VSTi software.
• Embedded computer system composed of latest-generation elements. Running on a Microsoft XPE operating system, the device is compatible with 95% of software packages on the market.
• CopperLan communication, a new protocol that above the Midi transcription really revolutionize the communication between audio-video machines. The Rhizome is the first instrument to totally implement CopperLan.
• Ergonomic design with portable size and weight and an adjustable stand.

The Rhizome is now shipping to selected distributors. Three editions are available to purchase: Rhizome SE (3,199 EUR), Rhizome XE (3,399 EUR), and Rhizome UXE (3,599 EUR).

More information: Feeltune

GForce Software has announced a Blow-Out Sale on impOSCar, a virtual synthesizer instrument modeled on the OSCar.

DO NOT BUY IMPOSCAR……..YET….

Because between the 7th and 21st of November the impOSCar will be available to purchase at the unbelievable price of €39 Euros!!

ARE WE MAD?…

Probably, but while we’re swatting the last of the impOSCar2 bugs and getting a multitude of things organized behind the scenes, we thought we’d send the original impOSCar off with a BANG!.

Actually, the truth is we’ve had so many people who have been holding off on purchasing impOSCar because they’ve been patiently waiting for impOSCar2, we’re doing a once in a lifetime deal to (a) make them happy, and (b) as a way of saying “sorry for our lateness”.

If you decide to upgrade to impOSCar2 once released, we’ll give you €29 Euros off the full web price.

This means that your original impOSCar will have cost you just €10 Euros! In the interim everything you learn on impOSCar is going to be of use with impOSCar2.

More information: GForce Software

Plughugger has announced the release of Bassbox, a sound expansion for Gforce Imposcar featuring 180 new sounds with one common theme: bass.

In this soundset you will find basses spanning from 80s popish basses to dark, wobbly and nasty. Hard detuned, soft, sweet, sad, hard, odd, huge, minimal, arpeggiated, sequenced, side-chained (fake of course), overdriven, re-pitched.

As most of the plugin world awaits the anticipated release of version 2, the original Imposcar is in fact one of the coolest synths ever made. Well on par with Minimoogs and Prophet Fives. The key to the greatness of Imposcar lies within its limited structure. The architecture of Imposcar is very simple, but just like the old Prophet Five, there are plenty of modulation tricks that can alter the sound in very clever ways.

Bassbox features

• 180 new sounds divided up in five banks:
  • Bank 01 – Deep End. 36 sounds with focus on dark and deep basses.
  • Bank 02 – Noise. These 36 sounds all have a slight amount of noise in them.
  • Bank 03 – Pitched. Envelopes and LFOs were used to create movements in pitch. 36 sounds.
  • Bank 04 – Arpeggios. And sequences. 36 sounds.
  • Bank 05 – Mix. A bank without any set theme or creative limitations. 36 sounds.

Bassbox is available to purchase as a download for 7.90 EUR.

More information: Plughugger / Bassbox