G-Storm Plugins has announced the release of the String Concerto II, a virtual string instrument for Windows.
String Concerto II VST Promo (String Melody II)
The String Concerto II is a recreation of the Logan String Melody II vintage stringer. The Logan was known for lush full orchestra, creamy triple-BBD ensemble, simple and honest organs, and cheesy accordion preset.
The emulation is made possible by synthesis and effects DSP techniques, not samples.
The String Concerto II for Windows (VST/Standalone) is available as donationware (recommended donation of $10 USD). A free trial version can be downloaded from the product page.
UVI has announced String Machines, a hybrid instrument forged with the analog imprint of the 11 most musical string synthesizers ever built.
Back in the 70′s, leading keyboard designers around the world attempted to reproduce orchestral string sounds through analog synthesis. The results were far from their original intent but were in no way failures. Used on countless cult records and engrained in our collective memory to this day – these ‘String Machines’ bore an analog soul on their own.
At UVI we are obsessed with this, having spent countless hours working on ways to capture this analog soul and present it as an accessible, expressive, fully editable digital tool. So was born String Machines – a hybrid instrument forged with the analog imprint of the 11 most musical string synthesizers ever built.
UVI has painstaking recorded thousands of samples with the very best analog and digital gear available, putting in all experience ever learned to bring you this comprehensive instrument at an unbelievable price.
String Machines features
Authentic sounds with character reproduce the analog grunge and warmth of yesteryear.
Instant access to tons of presets and preset layers; find sounds you love and get inspired quickly.
Dual layers. Select the machine and the associated sounds.
No loading time when switching machines and sounds.
Shape your sounds using authentic analog-modeled filters, envelopes, and LFOs.
Experiment with the step modulator and take your sound out of this world!
Samples recorded in 24/96 khz with Prism convertors, mastered to perfection and converted to 16/44.1 kHz.
Rhythmic Robot has released Logan, a meticulous emulation of the famous Logan String Melody II.
Logan samples each of the original String Melody II’s five “Preset” sounds chromatically across the keyboard, incorporating all onboard chorus and LFO effects, and adds to these features such as tube saturation, a full ADSR envelope control, further LFO control over vibrato and tremolo, amp cabinet simulation, Chorus and Phaser.
Logan features long samples at 24-bit, hand-looped to preserve the original’s characteristic cyclical sound components. The original keyboard split-point is preserved, and the Red and Blue sliders address the tones left and right of the split point respectively. Bass and Perc[ussion] sliders allow for further blending options left of the split.
Logan is Rhythmic Robot’s largest and most detailed Kontakt instrument yet, dedicated to preserving the richness of this classic instrument. The five Presets of the original have been broken out into individual Kontakt instruments, allowing the user the freedom to stack, layer and blend the sounds in ways not possible on the original.
Logan features
6 octaves of tone (full keyboard plus two further octaves) sampled chromatically at 24-bit.
Long samples to allow the sound to develop naturally.
Hand-looped to preserve cyclical variations in the original chorus effect.
All five Presets sampled individually.
Each Preset available as a separate Kontakt instrument, allowing for stacks and layers within Kontakt.
Additional ADSR, Tremolo and Vibrato controls, with Tremolo / Vibrato depth, rate and delay.
Tube Saturation, additional Chorus, Phaser and Amp Cab emulations built-in.
Purely authentic tones can be recreated, or new tonal possibilities explored beyond those of the original.
Logan – Complete for Kontakt is available to purchase for £19.95 GBP. Individual Logan Preset modules (“O”, Acc., Solo, Orch., and Organ) are available at £4.95 GBP each.
Synth Magic has released Logan Big Band, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt 4.
This Kontakt instrument based on this very rare 1970′s Synthesiser is fully programmable from the front panel just like a real Logan Big Band and is really simple to use.
The Logan Big Band is an extremely rare analogue synthesiser from the 70′s which is composed of lots of different synth sections.
We have sampled every instrument and settings this instrument has to faithfully reproduce it’s sounds-Lots of great presets included.
Easily create the lush analogue sounds of this beautiful sounding synth.
Logan Big Band is available to purchase for the introductory price of £14.95 GBP for a limited time.
WOK has releasedCromina String Machine, a virtual string machine synthesizer plug-in for Windows.
After more than one year of development we are glad to present you this physical modeling recreation of the electronic strings sound of the 60s and 70s. Solina, Crumar and Logan where the names, which made it first possible for bands to bring a string orchestra on stage or into the studio. The lush sound of these electronic keyboards stamped many songs of this era.
The soundwise peculiarities of the frequency divider circuit and the BBD modulation section can not be successful recreated by sampling. So we developed a plugin with the main emphasis on the reproduction of this typical influence on the sound. Though the drawback is a higher CPU load, it absolutely gives a much better reproduction of the original sound.
Although this plugin has it’s focus on the typical Solina sound (including a phaser and delay effect), it can produce a wide range of typical sounds by using the integrated equalizer, vibrato, envelope variations (including a piano envelope) and other tuning controls.
Cromina String Machine is available to purchase as a VST instrument plugin for Windows PC, priced at 37 EUR.
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