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Time+Space has announced it is now shipping Symphobia 2, the orchestral virtual instrument from ProjectSAM.

ProjectSAM’s virtual instruments are used by film, tv and game composers all over the world featuring in scores for District 9, the Bourne series, X-Men 2 and The Fast and The Furious, to name just a very few.

Symphobia 2 is set to follow in the same footsteps with a brand new awe inspiring 33GB sample pool and scores of breathtaking new features

Symphobia 2 features

• New and exciting Orchestral Articulations added to the string, orchestra and horn sections.
• Massive amounts of fresh and inspiring Symphonic Effects with banks entirely dedicated to ponticello, flageolet or other playing techniques.
• Exclusive Legato Ensembles with real legato transitions for orchestrated sets of instruments.
• Better than ever Dystopia 3 section with processed hits, spheres, scapes and risers.
• Brand new custom interface powered by Kontakt 4.1.
• Convenient Switchable Mic Mode button for two microphone sets (close and stage).
• Best ever Multis that allow you to play two, even three legato instruments simultaneously.

Symphobia 2 is available to purchase for a RRP of £999 GBP / €1174.99 EUR.

More information: Time+Space

ProjectSAM has announced Symphobia 2, a Kontakt Player powered orchestra sample library.

SYMPHOBIA 2 is more of what you’ve been missing in your orchestral palette. New and exciting ORCHESTRAL ARTICULATIONS, massive amounts of fresh and inspiring SYMPHONIC EFFECTS, exclusive LEGATO ENSEMBLES with real legato transitions, DYSTOPIA III and a brand-new interface. SYMPHOBIA 2 is the new no-brainer library for any film, game or TV composer.

The adventure continues… with SYMPHOBIA 2.

Symphobia 2 features

• Real tutti recordings of symphonic ensembles.
• Extensive, multi-articulation patches.
• New and inspiring symphonic effects.
• Industry-first legato ensembles with real legato transitions.
• 33 GB 44.1/24 library pool (uncompressed).
• 2 Mic sets switchable from interface.
• Brand-new custom interface.
• NI Kontakt Player 4 included with native 64-bit support.
• Kontakt background loading.
• Kontakt compressed sample storage (20 GB).

Symphobia 2 is now available to pre-order for 899.99 EUR excl. VAT / $1,149.99 USD (List price: 999.99 EUR excl. VAT / $1,299.99 USD). Product ships September 2010.

More information: ProjectSAM / Symphobia 2

ProjectSAM has re-released its True Strike series: True Strike “Cinematic Orchestral Percussion” and True Strike 2 “Cinematic World & Effects Percussion”.

Both libraries have been completely re-designed for the Kontakt format and come with Kontakt Player 3.5. New features include a re-structured instrument list, a streamlined audio pool and a custom interface with on- screen ADSR control, instrument information and other options.

Following ORCHESTRAL BRASS CLASSIC, this completes the migration of the main ProjectSAM libraries to the Kontakt Player platform.

True Strike and True Strike 2 are now available at a lowered price level of 299.99 EUR / 399.99 USD each. Various upgrade paths are available starting at 39.99 EUR / 59.99 USD.

More information: ProjectSAM

Native Instruments has released another KORE SoundPack, Urban Arsenal 2.

URBAN ARSENAL 2 brings yet more of the beats, samples, sounds and loops for creating the freshest urban music productions. Perfectly complimenting the first soundpack, this pack restocks the arsenal with over 1,000 new drum sounds, and and even more groove construction kits, synths, basses, pads and samples provided by professional beat scientists.

Urban Arsenal 2 features

• 29 drum kits with 40 groove sets and over 15,000 groove variations.
• 87 new Massive patches, with leads, basses and pads that have been tweaked and treated to give that heavy production-ready sound right out of the box.
• 80 newly sampled Kontakt instruments, with a focus on the analog synths, layered acoustic instruments and drum machines currently used on the freshest hip-hop joints.

The product page also mentions that several of these instruments were cut to dubplate and resampled for that extra-warm and soulful vinyl sound. Sounds familiar? Perhaps an idea of Goldbaby, one of the content providers for Urban Arsenal 2, alongside ProjectSAM, CLP, Dobie and Montana Beats.

The SoundPack includes a total of 236 sounds in a little over 1 GB content.
Urban Arsenal 2 is available as a download from the Native Instruments online shop for $119 USD / 99 EUR.

So what do I think?

I am not totally familiar with what is and what is not urban music, but my best guess is that it’s a bit of a mixture of contemporary hip-hop, rap and R&B. Urban Arsenal 2 certainly includes tons of suitable sounds for those genres, but I would say it’s not limited to just that type of music.

The instruments sound great and there’s plenty of variety in leads, bass, strings etc. I really enjoyed the drum kits and groove sets. Instant grooves, tons of ‘em! Some of the grooves are almost complete tracks, all you need is an MC. But don’t mistake these grooves for loops, they are actually sequenced single shot sounds in Kontakt. If you want to construct your own beats you have all the single shot sounds right there at your fingertips as well.

Urban Arsenal 2 provides a complete collection of instruments and grooves to create urban tracks, and more. Just have listen to the demo tracks on the product page, and make sure to check the video of CLP and KOVAS building a track with this SoundPack, it’s that easy.

KORE just keeps getting better!

Visit Native Instruments for more information.

If you have any questions about this SoundPack, just post them in the comments.

ProjectSAM has released version 1.1 of Symphobia and Orchestral Brass Classic, two virtual instruments powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player.

Changes in Symphobia v1.1

• New articulation: fast attack ensemble strings mf/ff (modwheel control).
• New articulation: brass chords without tuba/bass note (modwheel control).
• New effect: string ensemble very slow glissandi.
• New effect: string brass ensemble dark textures.
• New effect: string brass ensemble trill crescendo.
• New effect: string brass ensemble trill marcato.
• 20 New Multis added, now 40 Multis in total.
• Various improvements and bug fixes, details here.

Changes in Orchestral Brass Classic v1.1

• Smoother Modwheel (DYN) patches throughout library.
• Various bug fixes, details here.

The updates are available through the Native Instruments Service Center and require an existing 1.0 installation.

Visit ProjectSAM for more information.

Native Instruments‘ True Strike Tension is the latest in the ever growing collection of KORE SoundPacks.

This new expansion brings a collection of percussive sounds for cinematic scores to KORE. The title of this SoundPack may ring a bell if you’re familiar with ProjectSAM.

The renowned cinematic sampling house ProjectSAM, worked in partnership with NI on this KORE SOUNDPACK, handpicking the samples from their acclaimed True Strike 2 library. This KORE SOUNDPACK offers a selection of impressive percussive sounds from all over the world designed to heighten the dramatic tension of any scene. Utilizing Kore’s KONTAKT engine, TRUE STRIKE TENSION allows for sophisticated real-time sound manipulation that will keep your audience on the edge of their seats.

True Strike Tension features

• 10 kits constructed from 1 GB of samples from ProjectSAM’s True Strike 2 library.
• 30 ready-to-use sounds for tense, percussive soundtrack productions (each sound features a variety of drum, metal and noise samples, all of them followed by dedicated effect units).
• 3 kits that let you access the sample pool in a more systematic way:
  • SAM Drums contains all drum sounds.
  • SAM Metal holds all metallic samples.
  • SAM FX is a collection of all effect samples.

True Strike Tension’s kits consist of various percussive instruments like the Okedo-Daiko, Log Drum, Octaban and Gran Casa.

Each of the 10 kits has 3 flavors for a total of 30 KoreSounds.

1. Flavor A — the basic “clean” kits with only some reverb and delay effects to the samples in order to allow spatial enhancements.
2. Flavor B — adds filter effects and additional Lo-Fi, Drive and Phaser effects for manipulating the frequency spectrum.
3. Flavor C — utilizes the GUITAR RIG engine for generating distortion and overdrive. This is where things can really get crazy!

True Strike Tension is available as a download for $79 USD / 69 EUR.

So what do I think?

True Strike Tension pretty much blew me away. Really. I’m not sure how this SoundPack compares to True Strike 2 but to me it looks like great advertising for ProjectSAM’s product.

Although the instruments in True Strike Tension are probably most useful for film or game soundtracks, each of the kits has tremendous potential for anything that needs dramatic percussion. The sounds are very expressive and it’s just as easy to create an intimate suspenseful atmosphere as it is to tear things up with massive drum beats.

Make sure to check the audio demos on the True Strike Tension product page. I’m pretty sure you’ll be impressed.

More information: Native Instruments