Benedict Roff-Marsh has released CSM-02, a new synth which is part of the SynthStudio Pack III - Virgo Constellation.

CSM-02 is based around a soundfont built by Dangerous Bear (DBU) and is great for creating textures, pads and some classic Moog style sounds.

CSM-02 features

• Soundfont Oscillator and LFO.
• Self-FM.
• Resonant Analog Sounding Filter.
• Dual-Pole Env ADSR.

A demo mp3 can be heard here. CSM-02 is free for existing SSP III owners. SSP III is available for $10 AUD.

Visit Benedict Roff-Marsh for more information.

H.G. Fortune has released the free version of STS-33, the latest version of this Space Transition Synthesizer.

STS-33 features

• New: Super Modulation X/Y Control Pad to modulate up to 8 destinations simultaneuosly.
• New: Step Modulator - even driven by keystroke on non legato play.
• New: Enhanced LFO Section with 6 LFO and SH&H with 5 being syncable to keystroke.
• New: Frequency Split - have lower fequencies to midposition (enhancing bass!) while the freqs. above can be panned.
• Four digital PCM-wave oscillators powered by 128 selectable waveforms (256 waves in Pro version!).
• Two resonant filters (24db Lowpass and 12 db Highpass).
• Three ADSR-style envelope generators.
• Two output channels (F & D) with LoBoost, Saturate, Delay (+ modulation) and Pan to stereo sum.
• 10 dedicated Lazy buttons.

STS-33 Pro includes user loadable soundfonts (SF2) & wavefiles (up to 24 Bit), and
comes with a 2^nd soundset including a 2^nd waveset of 128 new waves plus another patchbank.

The 2 voice free version only supports 64 patches per bank and is supplied with 3 banks (196 patches). The waves of the Lite ver. are stored internally with no option to load different sf2 nor wave files.

STS-33 Pro will be available shortly for 45 EUR. The Pro lite version (the Pro version excluding the 2^nd soundset) will be available for 29 EUR.

Visit H.G. Fortune for more information and a link to download the free version of STS-33.

ModernBeats has released Vox Chantz 1: Long Cuts, a sample library featuring over 500 hip hop vocal samples.

Vox Chantz is 320MB in size and features a wide variety of dynamic hip hop vocal samples & chants designed for today’s hip hop & urban music. The chant and shout styles provided extend from “Yeah!” to “Fool!” to “What?!” to “Beeyatch!” and more.

Vox Chantz 1: Long Cuts features

• 36 male vocal chant groups.
• Each chant group contains 14 separate stacked chant samples, all 2-3 seconds in length.
• Each chant group includes 4 levels of intensity and size (small, medium, xxl, fx).
• All 36 vocal chant groups load automatically via 7 different provided formats into your software sampler of choice: Reason NN-XT, EXS24, Kontakt, Battery, Halion, Soundfont and WAV.

Vox Chantz 1: Long Cuts is available as a download for $39.95 USD.

Visit MordernBeats for more information and audio demos.

B. Serrano has released version 3.0 of Nucleus, a freeware SoundFont player VST instrument for Windows PC.

Nucleus 3.0 features

• 8 voices polyphonic.
• 1 Stereo soundfonts player.
• 1 multimode filter.
• 1 graphic mod-enveloppe up to 8 stages.
• 2 LFO, host BPM syncable.
• 1 Ring modulator.
• Chorus FX.
• MIDI Learn.

Visit B. Serrano for a link to download Nucleus 3.0.