Cycling '74 Announces Essential InstrumentsA Pluggo Collection For VST2 and MAS January 19, 2001Cycling '74 today announced ESSENTIAL INSTRUMENTS, an inexpensive collection
of 14 easy-to-use software synthesizers, drum machines, and sampler modules for
VST2 and MAS. ESSENTIAL INSTRUMENTS is the first of a new line of pluggo Collections
developed with Cycling '74's Max/MSP plug-in authoring technology. Created by
More Electronic Sounds (MES), developers of the acclaimed i-Synth, ESSENTIAL INSTRUMENTS
are intended for musicians seeking high-quality instrument sounds when working
with Cubase, Digital Performer, or other popular sequencers.
The ESSENTIAL INSTRUMENTS collection is strongly oriented toward analog modelling
synthesis. Instruments include a 32-bit sampler and sampling drum module, analog
emulation drum module, two FM synthesizers, a tonewheel organ emulator, a powerful
granular synthesis implementation, a patchable analog-emulation synth, a Theremin
emulation, and a wavetable synth/sequencer with sync. A number of modules are
available in "low fat" versions for greater CPU efficiency. All modules
sport clean and consistent user-interfaces that emphasize ease-of-use, and extremely
high-quality sound generation algorithms„
Cycling '74 also announced an exclusive United States distribution agreement
with MES to sell its i-Synth product line in the U.S. The first product, i-Synth
1. 1, features five instrument modules, effects, a mixer, arpeggiator, and a pattern-oriented
sequencer.
Availability: ESSENTIAL INSTRUMENTS will be available in the first quarter
of 2001. List price is $99, with a special $59 price offered to PLUGGO users.
A free trial version will be downloadable from the Cycling '74 web site, where
free preview versions of the Theremin and analog emulation drum modules will be
available prior to the official release of the product. i-Synth 1.1 is available
now.
System requirements: Essential Instruments requires a VST2 or MOTU Audio System
host application, a Mac OS PowerPC computer with a G3 or better processor, and
64MB of RAM. i-Synth requires a Mac OS PowerPC computer with a G3 or better processor. For more information, visit their web site at www.cycling74.com. |
