Wavelore Instruments is running a group buy for Pedal Steel Guitar, a pedal steel sample library for Kontakt.
From now until August 6th 2009, we will be offering new customers of the Pedal Steel Guitar library the opportunity to save up to 50% off the price of the library.
By particapating in this Group Buy, you will be nudging the price of the library during the group buy period lower and lower, until eveyone who particaptes gets a discount on the full price based on the number of participants!
Pedal Steel Guitar features
- Ten strings of E9th-tuned pedal steel guitar, totalling 1.9 Gigabytes of 24-bit samples for Native Instruments Kontakt 2 or 3.
- Allows independent pitch bending of all strings in nearly endless combinations, all on a single Kontakt 2 or 3 MIDI channel.
- 8-Way Round-Robin sampling for natural sounding repetitions of notes and phrases.
- Gives access to 24 neck positions via assignable MIDI CC#.
- Seperately assignable controls for vibrato speed and depth.
- Convolution Amp Modeling: 3 Amps with up to four reverb settings and multiple stereo/mono mic configurations.
- Realtime release sample control (pick damping and palm damping).
- MIDI Learn mode for all assignable controls and keyswitches.
- A feature-rich, dynamic performance view with three pages of clearly organized and intuitive controls for tweaking the instrument to your taste and style.
- Carefully chosen factory settings to allow unsurpassed out-of-the-box playability.
- A detailed user guide .pdf including a quick start guide and detailed info on operation.
Pedal Steel Guitar is normally available for purchase for $299.99 USD. If the group buy reaches the maximum level of 100 or more participants by August 6th 2009, the price will drop to $149.99 USD.
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Wavelore Instruments has released Pedal Steel Guitar for Kontakt, a virtual pedal steel guitar sample library.
The new version of this cutting-edge library uses advanced KSP (Kontakt Script Processor) programming to allow independent bending of discrete pitches on a single MIDI channel, allowing users to craft their own original pedal steel guitar licks intuitively and in real-time. Users are afforded the opportunity to set up their own controllers for various expressive factors like the volume pedal, vibrato speed/depth, release sample control, and neck position selector.
“It’s very gratifying to have produced a version of this library for Kontakt”, says president and chief instrument designer Mark Belbin. “Now even more people, including Mac users, can enjoy a virtual pedal steel that can produce a practically unlimited variety of licks. Another benefit to having the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar available for Kontakt is that we can continue to enhance and expand the product’s capabilities, thanks to the flexibility of Kontakt’s script processing.”
Pedal Steel Guitar for Kontakt features
- Ten strings of E9th-tuned pedal steel guitar, totalling 1.9 Gigabytes of 24-bit samples for Native Instruments Kontakt 2 or 3.
- Allows independent pitch bending of all strings in nearly endless combinations, all on a single Kontakt 2 or 3 MIDI channel.
- 8-Way Round-Robin sampling for natural sounding repetitions of notes and phrases.
- Gives access to 24 neck positions via assignable MIDI CC#.
- Seperately assignable controls for vibrato speed and depth.
- Convolution Amp Modeling: 3 Amps with up to four reverb settings and multiple stereo/mono mic configurations.
- Realtime release sample control (pick damping and palm damping).
- MIDI Learn mode for all assignable controls and keyswitches.
- A feature-rich, dynamic performance view with three pages of clearly organized and intuitive controls for tweaking the instrument to your taste and style.
- Carefully chosen factory settings to allow unsurpassed out-of-the-box playability.
- A detailed user guide .pdf including a quick start guide and detailed info on operation.
Pedal Steel Guitar for Kontakt is available for purchase now for $299.99 USD. A free trial version is available for download from the product page.
Customers who bought the original Pedal Steel Guitar library (GVI format) can request a free crossgrade.
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Wavelore Instruments has released version 2.0 of American Zither, a unique and exotic sounding virtual instrument.
Changes in American Zither v2.0
- Fixed a problem with CC triggered tremolos not activating when the note is struck while the controller’s value is zero. Now tremolos can be activated anytime.
- Implemented portamento, detailed tremolo, panning controls, convolution options, expression, octave coupling and keyswitching of features.
- Now compatible with Kontakt 3.5 public beta.
IMPORTANT: This update contains both K2 and K3 versions of the American Zither, in both 16 and 24 bits. The bit depth you use will be determined by that of the samples you already have. The K2 version will run in versions of K3 older than v.3.5, but if you are running version 3.5 or later, you’ll want to use the included K3 version of the American Zither to avoid a problem with the instrument not sounding.
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Wavelore Instruments has released version 1.1 of Pedal Steel Guitar, and version 1.2 of American Zither, two virtual instruments powered by the GVI engine.
The update for Pedal Steel Guitar (Full & Lite Editions) adds the free Wavelore Brush Kit —played with wire brushes — to the WLPS / WLPSLE soundset.
DEF dynamics and round-robin samples give the kit a great playability. Complete with kick, snare (including stirs) 2 toms, splash, crash, ride, and hi-hats in 5 gradations between open and closed, plus hi-hat pedal.
Wavelore American Zither is updated with Wavelore Slide Whistle, Hand Drums, and new free shaker instruments (shakerx2, rattle and cabasa) to the WLAZ soundset. The update also addresses the issue of running the patch installer on XP systems with Service Pack 3.
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Wavelore Instruments has released Pedal Steel Guitar, a pedal steel library which is fully playable in realtime.
Instead of relying on pre-recorded licks and loops, the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar uses single-note samples fused with GVI’s powerful filters and modelling tools to put all ten bendable strings of E9th tuning right under your fingers!
Pedal Steel Guitar features
- 10 strings of E9th tuned Pedal Steel Guitar.
- 1.3 GB of samples, based on over 4 GB of source material.
- Runs on Windows XP as VSTi plugin or Standalone mode using your ASIO drivers
- Includes 8-way round-robin samples per note; no false sounding repetions of notes or phrases.
- No loops; Samples decay fully and naturally. No truncation or extraneous noise.
- 2 types of optional release samples.
- Natural Harmonics at the 12th, 7th, and 5th frets, using 4-way round-robin.
- DEF and PRF filters offer expressive realtime dynamics and polyphonic string bends/slides on a single MIDI channel.
- Full control over neck position/chord voicing.
- Gigapulse amp modelling; flexible amp/mic and room simulation for a wide range of tonal colors.
- Samples recorded direct. Use the included Gigapulse amp models or your favorite amp-sim plugins.
The Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar is available in two versions:
- Full Edition – comes with 8-way round-robin samples for every note recorded, including the same number for each of the two included release sample variations (that’s 24 samples per note), as well as 18 amp simulation presets, created from three different amplifiers, and open (natural) harmonics at the 5th, 7th, and 12th frets above every string in 4-way round-robin. Its total size on disk is 2.7 Gigabytes.
- Lite Edition – includes 2-way round-robin, 6 amp sim presets, and no harmonics. Its total size is about 700 Megabytes. Both instruments are highly playable, containing the same innovative programming techniques to allow full realtime control over expressive factors like dynamics, neck position, chord voicing, bend direction/speed, bend type, and vibrato.
Pedal Steel Guitar is available for $269.99 USD, while the Lite version costs $179.99 USD.
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TASCAM has released GigaStudio 4, a high-end sampling workstation for Windows PC.
Hundreds of enhancements have been made from GigaStudio 3, TASCAM’s previous TEC Award-Winning sampling workstation, such as an all-new QuickSound database tool, additions to the QuickEdit interface and many user interface improvements.
GigaStudio 4 features
- Supports 64-bit operating systems like XP64 and Windows Vista 64 (32-bit version also available).
- Unlimited polyphony.
- 96kHz/24-bit sample support.
- 128 MIDI channel playback.
- embedded GigaPulse convolution reverb.
- iMIDI rule programming includes legato mode, round-robin, alternation, portamento, dynamic expression filters and more to add realism to sampled performances.
- Sound Libraries from SONiVOX, Larry Seyer Digital, Project SAM, Wavelore.
GigaStudio 4 is available now with an MSRP of $599 USD. The GigaStudio 3 Orchestra to GigaStudio 4 Upgrade is $199 USD.
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