company, Access Music. Figure 1 is one model. Jeremy Janzen, Master of Nucleus SoundLab, has provided for us Outbreak, a soundware product based on the sounds of the Virus TI hardware synthesizer, using the power of extensive 96 kHz multisampling, manual looping and professional preset design. Viral In the original review, I suggested Outbreak is available as a VSTi plugin, “Freakin’ Cool and Unusual Drum and a sound library Percussion-like Sounds!” as an for Camel Audio’s alternative title for the library, and on Alchemy, and a revisiting the collection, I still agree. Reason 4.0 Refill. The sounds are interesting and unique. From the As a side note, demo 10 on the website: product page, titled Wusik Station Viral Outbreak Presets, will give you a great idea of contains all how the collection sounds. manner of TIYou can create a traditional drum based sounds. track with the sounds, but the Classic strength in Ambient Drums lies in its processed sounds. My favorite sounds wavetables, raw saw and pulse waveforms (sampled at multiple are the ones that sound like they are way in the distance, whether they are pulsewidths), unison dance leads, breathtaking pads, bizarre formant booms or scrapes. And I like the rainsticks, but then again, I like pretty effects, massive supersaws and even punchy synth drumkits. The Refill much all rainsticks, real or recorded. Details follow: The price is $29 for a single format. The ReFill includes the No sampler required! Viral Battery/Kontakt patches + raw .wav Outbreak is powered by a full files at no extra charge. Product information: http://www.nucleussoundlab.com/ambient-drums-reasonrefill.html duplicates, with the wet kits being processed by a convolution reverb. Each kit is mapped to about one octave and starts at C1. The lowest note (C1) is consistent throughout the kits. In addition, there are 30 presets that use the Wusik Station wavesequencer.
Viral Outbreak By Ben Paturzo The Virus TI (Total Integration) series of hardware synthesizers was introduced in 2005 by the German 72
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Nearly 3.5GB of multisamples comprising 180+ soundsets.
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Sampled at 32-bit 96khz quality! For resource efficiency, then carefully downsampled to 24-bit 48khz. Figure 1
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Comes loaded with over 1000 presets by the best preset designers out there: ProSounds, Teksonik, Tim Conrardy, Jeremy Janzen, rsmus7 and more!
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An amazing, TI-inspired, GUI by Vera Kinter.
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Mac users please take note the VST Plugin is PC-Only at this time.
Considering that an Access hardware synthesizer can reduce your trust fund by a few thousand dollars US, we should be grateful for Jeremy's hard work. Not only that, but he has managed to get some of the best sound designers out there—even Chris Sciurba (Ugo), who isn't listed above,