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127th AES Convention Coverage (New York, NY Oct. 9-12)
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Cycling '74 Announces Essential Instruments
January 19, 2001
Advertisement Cycling '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 http://www.cycling74.com/.
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