Plugsound Volume 1: Keyboards Now Available
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November 25, 2002
USB is now shipping Plugsound 1
"Keyboards Collection," offering a
wealth of acoustic and electric pianos, clavinets and organs.
Plugsound 1 is a sound module that
offers 256 presets using more than 3,000 samples. Under the hood is the
powerful UVI-Engine which features dual multimode filters, separate
amplitude and filter envelopes, keyzone editing (a feature only found on a
few high-end samplers) and much more. Plugsound is now in
version 1.72: new features include the ability to control every knob and
slider via MIDI, a new integrated reverb effect, Release Trigger, and about
20% more voices than before.
The Keyboards Collection features acoustic Pianos in classical, jazz and pop
styles, and alternative sounds like Honky-Tonk and Detuned. It also featured
a best-of selection of famous electric pianos from the most respected
manufacturers of these bygone instruments. A wealth of Clavinets, Electric
Organs and Synth-based keyboard sounds complete the modern part of the
collection. Featured traditional keyboard instruments include Church Organs,
Accordion, Celesta, Vibraphone, Music box & Xylophone. Finally, an extensive
Harpsichord section benefits from the new "Release Trigger" feature that
allows realistic recreation of this difficult instrument.
Keyboard instruments may seem simple to reproduce in a library, but that's
only true when you let presets take hundreds of megabytes, and it doesn't
automatically make the sounds better. Most users don't have that much RAM to
devote to their sounds, or don't want to wait endlessly for sequences loaded
with enormous samples to open. Enter Plugsound: the sound design team worked
really hard and went out of their way to ensure that all instruments use the
amount of RAM they need, and no more. Why create a 200 MB Piano if you can
achieve a better sound with 96 MB? In return, this extra work allowed the
team to include more sounds in the 650 MB sample library, and make sure that
the collection is as complete as it can be.
Each Plugsound volume is a virtual instrument based on a professional sample
library, available as a VST2 plug-in (Mac-PC), and a MAS and RTAS plug-in on
the Mac. Plugsound 1 "Keyboards Collection" is supplied on a CDROM with
printed manual and sound listings, plus multi-language PDF manuals &
tutorials. Plugsound 1 is available worldwide now, for a price of 99 USD
(Recommended Retail). For more information, visit their web site at www.plugsound.com. |
