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Rhythmic Robot has announced the release of Jennings, a synthesizer instrument library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

We promised you our best synth ever. Well, here it is, guys: all the way from 1946, give a big warm hug to JENNINGS.

It’s a recreation of the Jennings Univox, an astonishingly cool dawn-of-an-era synth that got used by the Fab Four and wormed its way into the consciousness of a generation when it did that lead line on Telstar.

It sounds absolutely amazing, and we’ve expanded and enhanced it so that it goes waaaay beyond its roots. It’s been being soldered together on the lab bench for months, but finally, finally, it’s done. Now it can be yours!

Rhythmic Robot Jennings: Sounds from the dawn of the synth age: the Jennings Univox all-valve synthesiser.

Jennings features

• 24-bit, 20-second samples of a professionally-restored Jennings Univox.
• All-valve waveforms.
• Convolved IR maps and multiple sample sets combine to recreate all front-panel tabs.
• One or two oscillators, with detune and Osc Spread control for stereo width.
• Multi-mode resonant filter switchable between 2-pole (12dB/octave) and 4-pole (24dB/octave), high or low pass.
• Filter and Amplitude envelopes; Amplitude envelope with specific attack-curve control (for “sucky” or “snappy” attacks).
• Filter LFO and switchable Amplitude (tremolo) / Pitch (vibrato) LFO, with adjustable ramp time.
• Full effects section with Chorus, Phaser, Delay, Rotary Speaker and Amp Cab simulator.
• Stereo Widening in combination with Osc Spread maps keys across the stereo sound field.
• “Compliance Mode” makes creating authentic 1946-style patches simple.
• Requires Kontakt version 4.2.3 or later (including Kontakt 5). Not compatible with Kontakt player.

The sample library is available to purchase for £59.95 GBP.

More information: Rhythmic Robot / Jennings

Avid has announced the release of Pro Tools® + Eleven Rack®, a new, specially designed bundle for guitarists that includes the world’s most popular professional recording software, a DSP-accelerated audio interface that offers hyper-realistic emulations of classic amps and effects, and the Eleven Rack Expansion Pack – delivering a powerful live performance and recording solution for guitarists at an incredible value.

Pro Tools + Eleven Rack features

• Experience incredible sonic range with emulations of classic amp tones inspired by Fender®, VOX®, Marshall®, Soldano, Mesa/Boogie®, Bogner®, Ampeg® and Matchless®*, among others.
• Enhance tones and embellish tracks with a broad assortment of classic stompbox effects inspired by MXR®, Electro-Harmonix®, Ibanez®, Pro Co, Univox®, and more*.
• Compose, record, edit, reamp and mix using industry-standard Pro Tools software.

Pro Tools + Eleven Rack is available to purchase for $1,259 USD.

More information: Avid / Pro Tools + Eleven Rack

* Eleven Rack is not connected with, or approved or endorsed by, the owners of the Ampeg®, Bogner®, Electro-Harmonix®, Fender®, Ibanez®, Marshall®, Matchless®, Mesa/Boogie®, MXR®, Pro Co, Soldano, Univox®, or VOX® names. These names are used solely to identify the guitar amplifiers, cabinets, speakers, and effects emulated by Eleven Rack.

Forgotten Keys has released version 2 of its Univox SR-95 / Keio Minipops MP-7 Drum Machine sample pack.

Version two is a major update of the Kontakt instrument file.

There is now a built-in rhythm pattern player with all the original rhythms from both the Univox SR-95 and Keio minipops MP-7. Rhythms can be combined just like the real thing, in fact you are able to create combinations unavailable on the real thing due to the way the selector buttons were shared between two rhythms.

You can also mute instrument groups (of which there are eight) and add “Imperfections” like velocity and timing variations. Sound groups can now also be panned.

The Univox SR-95 / Keio Minipops MP-7 sample pack is available to purchase for £3.50 GBP.

More information: Forgotten Keys / Univox SR-95 / Keio Minipops MP-7 Drum Machine

Forgotten Keys has released a free sample pack featuring sounds from the Univox SR-95 / Keio Mini Pops MP-7 Drum Machine.

The Univox SR-95 (aka Keio MiniPops MP-7) Drum Machine is an analog machine from the 1970s. It was probably most famously used by Jean-Michel Jarre on his Oxygene album in 1976. The Univox branded version was, I believe, for the USA market. This is the version I have and which I paid a bit over-the-top for on eBay in 2009.

Univox SR-95 / Keio Mini Pops MP-7 Drum Machine sample pack

• All 15 sounds with eight round-robin variations plus the “warm-up” sound you get when you switch the machine on.
• Sounds: Bass Drum, Snare Drum 1, Snare Drum 2, Rimshot, Hi-Hat, Cymbal 1, Cymbal 2, Cowbell, Conga, Large Bongo, Small Bongo, Claves, Quijada, Guiro, Tambourine.
• Format: 24 bit wav.
• Samples have not been individually normalised as the original balance between each sound would have been lost.

The Univox SR-95 sample pack is available to download at no cost. Donations are appreciated.

More information: Forgotten Keys / Univox SR-95 sample pack

Digidesign has announced the Eleven Rack, a standalone hardware unit that combines a hyper-realistic guitar amp and effects processor with a high-quality computer recording audio interface, to create the ultimate recording and performance solution for guitar players.

The wait is over. We’re proud to introduce Eleven Rack™ — a revolutionary new guitar recording and effects processing solution designed to eliminate the challenges that guitarists have faced in the studio and on stage.

Experience the most sought-after guitar amp tones in the world — complete with all the sonic details that make playing through real amps feel like playing through real amps. Record guitar without audible latency using the included studio-standard Pro Tools® 8 software — now optimized for guitar players. Enjoy ultra-realistic convolution-based mic’d cabinet emulations, with mic placement courtesy of guitar recording expert John Cuniberti. Easily re-amplify tones without re-patching a single cable. Use it as a standalone effects processor and incorporate legendary amp and effects tones into your live rig. All of this and more is now available in a single solution, designed just for guitar players.

Eleven Rack features

• Eleven Rack Hardware
  • Unique True-Z auto-impedance matching guitar input.
  • Incredible emulations of classic guitar amp tones inspired by Fender®, Vox®, Marshall®, Soldano, and Mesa/Boogie® amps.
  • Refined collection of sought-after classic stompbox tones inspired by effects from MXR®, Electro-Harmonix®, Ibanez®, ProCo, Univox®, and more.
  • Powerful collection of studio-quality rackmount effects processors.
  • Convolution-based cabinet emulations deliver unprecedented realism in cabinet tones.
  • Convolution-based microphone emulations inspired by classic dynamic, condenser, and ribbon mic designs.
  • Integrated FX loop switchable to incorporate existing mono or stereo rack and stompbox effects.
  • Controllable via MIDI controllers and expression pedals.
  • Built-in tuner.
  • Tap-tempo control of time-based effects.
  • High-speed USB 2.0 connection.
  • Supports up to 8 simultaneous channels of high-resolution recording up to 24-bit/96 kHz.
  • Stereo balanced XLR outputs and dedicated 1/4” outputs.
  • XLR mic input with 48V phantom power and pad switch.
  • 2 x 1/4” line-level inputs.
  • AES/EBU and S/PDIF digital I/O.
  • Stereo 1/4” headphone jack.
  • 1 x 1 MIDI I/O.
• Pro Tools LE Software
  • Award-winning Pro Tools LE 8 recording, editing, and mixing software — now optimized for guitar players.
  • Powerful Eleven Rack control window for creating/editing Eleven Rack rig settings right from Pro Tools software.
  • Records both dry and processed signals simultaneously, with recallable rig settings embedded into audio files.
  • Includes over 70 professional effects, including reverb, delay, chorus, distortion, flanger, phaser, reverse, EQ, and compression.
  • Powerful virtual instruments for creating backing tracks, including a drum machine, tonewheel organ, piano, synthesizer, and synth/sample workstation.
• Virtual Instruments
  • Boom™ drum machine and sequencer.
  • DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation.
  • Mini Grand acoustic grand piano.
  • Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer.
  • Xpand!®2 multitimbral synth and sample workstation.
  • Structure Free sample player.
  • FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module.
• Effects, Sound-Processing, Utility Plug-ins
  • 1-Band EQ III, 4-Band EQ III, 7-Band EQ III, AIR Chorus, AIR Distortion, AIR Dynamic Delay, AIR Enhancer, AIR Ensemble, AIR Filter Gate, AIR Flanger, AIR Frequency Shifter, AIR FuzzWah, AIR KillEQ, AIR Lo-Fi, AIR MultiChorus, AIR Multi-Delay, AIR Nonlinear Reverb, AIR Phaser, AIR Reverb, AIR Spring Reverb, AIR StereoWidth, AIR Talkbox, AIR Vintage Filter , BF76 Compressor, BF Essential Clip Remover, BF Essential Correlation Meter, BF Essential Meter Bridge, BF Essential Noise Meter, Celemony Melodyne Essential, Chorus, Click, Compressor/Limiter, D-Verb, DC Offset Removal, De-Esser, Delay, DigiReWire, Dither, Duplicate, Eleven Free, Expander/Gate, Extra Long Delay II, Flanger, Gain, Invert, Lo-Fi , Long Delay II, Maxim, Medium Delay II, Multi-Tap Delay, Normalize, Ping-Pong Delay, Pitch, Pitch Shift, POWr Dither, Recti-Fi, Reverse, SansAmp, Sci-Fi, Signal Generator, Short Delay II, Slap Delay II, Time Compression Expansion, Time Shift, TL AutoPan, TL InTune, TL MasterMeter, TL Metro, Trim, Vari-Fi.

Eleven Rack will be available worldwide in September 2009 and carries a USMSRP of $1,259 USD.

More information: Digidesign / Eleven Rack

Vergel Evans recently posted a nice collection of drumkits for Kontakt 3.

After finding some nice drum machine samples at soundlib.noisetheorem.com, Vergel created a multi-set of drum kits for Kontakt 3.

It was quite a find… not only did soundlib have an extensive collection of TR-808 and TR-909 samples, it also has a whole collection of samples for the Boss-660, and a set of custom built Cwejman modular drums. Each with tons of variations.

Leaving those extensive sample banks aside, I compiled a broad selection of my favorite retro drum machines, into a multi-set of drum kits for Kontakt3. The kits aren’t perfect, but atleast the drum sets are laid out in order and ready for anyone to personalize them to make them their own.

The multi pack includes kits of these drum machines:

• Linn – LinnDrum
• Sequential Circuits – DrumTracks
• Univox Drum Machine
• Emu- Drumulator
• Rhodes – Polaris Drums
• Moog – MG-1
• MFB – 512
• Rhythm Ace Drum Machine
• Boss – DR55 & DR110
• Sakata – DPM-48
• Simmons Drum Kit
• Korg – KPR-77 & DDD-1
• Access – Virus Drumkit
• Fruity Loops Drumkit
• Yamaha – DD10 & PSS80
• MachineDrum – BombiBit & E12 Standard Kit
• Roland – R8m, CR-78, TR-505, TR-606 & TR-707

Check Lx7.ca for a link to download the drumkits.