Native Instruments New Release Studio Drummer is Kontakt based acoustic Drum Instrument.

PRESS RELEASE: Studio Drummer is the perfect realization of a drummer in software, with everything you need to create realistic acoustic drum tracks – top-of-the-line drum kits, detailed mixing options, and a ready-to-go groove library, packed with authentic beats of all colours and flavours.

Native Instruments Studio Drummer - Create studio-quality acoustic drums in Kontakt 5.

By combining premium sampled drum kits and a comprehensive studio-grade mixing environment with a wide assortment of professional grooves, this new Kontakt-based instrument provides a highly versatile and easy-to-use ‘virtual drummer’ that gives authentic and fast results for pop, rock, metal, jazz and related music styles.

For use with the full Kontakt version and the free Kontakt Player, Studio Drummer makes extensive use of the advanced features of the Kontakt 5 generation to provide all necessary components for a first-class studio drums production.

At the heart of the instrument are three premium drum kits from Pearl, Sonor and Yamaha that have been sampled with painstaking precision in the renowned Teldex Studios in Berlin, using selected outboard gear and an especially sophisticated array of up to 18 microphones.

The resulting 17 GB of sample material incorporate up to 25 velocity layers with up to 6 variation samples for individual instruments, and contain over a dozen distinct articulations for snare and hi-hats as well as an alternative snare option for each kit.

The array of individual drum sounds in Studio Drummer is complemented by its extensive groove library, which includes over 3,500 rhythm patterns organized by 11 specific music styles.

All patterns including fills and variations were recorded directly from a professional session drummer, and converted into MIDI files for flexible usage in the Kontakt engine. All grooves can be adjusted for swing and tightness, and can be transferred into a host sequencer via Drag & Drop for detailed editing and arrangement.

In order to play the individual instruments in Studio Drummer directly, the software also offers a practical assortment of MIDI templates for various electronic drum sets and third-party drum software, combined with flexible custom mapping functions.

The comprehensive mixer section of Studio Drummer gives full control over all relevant aspects of the sound, allowing users to specifically tailor each drum kit to the individual musical context.

Detailed microphone settings with adjustable snare bleed, auxiliary mics and specific room and overhead controls can be either set by hand, or through the several carefully designed mix presets per drum kit that each represent a distinctive sound aesthetic.

By utilizing the classic EQ and compressor models derived from the new Solid Mix Series as well as the integrated Transient Master and Tape Saturator algorithms, Studio Drummer enables studio-grade sound processing with genuinely professional sound quality and flexibility.

Studio Drummer will be available in September 2011 for $169 / 149 EUR, and will also be included in the new Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate bundles.

Disclaimer : Information taken from official press release, for more visit Native Instruments.

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PRESS RELEASE: Native Instruments today announced Guitar Rig 5 Pro, the next generation of its versatile effects studio.

Includes New Amps & Effects + Sidechaining

The new version expands the comprehensive feature set of the software with additional amplifiers and effects, advanced speaker emulation, and various new creative features that make Guitar Rig even more powerful both for studio production and live performance.

In a further addition to its carefully selected arsenal of authentically modelled guitar amplifiers, Guitar Rig 5 introduces the new Van51 and HotSolo+ models, adding two distinctive flavours of heavily overdriven amplification for intense solos and heavy riffs.

The comprehensive collection of effects in Guitar Rig is expanded with six new components – including an additional classic compressor model, the versatile ‘vintage verb’ with various plate and spring emulations, a compact studio-grade convolution reverb based on the acclaimed Reflektor, an analogue-modelled 8-band filterbank, the new ‘stereo tune’ chorus, and the unique Resochord harmonizer.

Guitar Rig 5 also introduces the ultimate facility for flexible and intricate speaker emulation with its new convolution-based ‘Control Room Pro’ module. From a comprehensive collection of 27 cabinets and 16 microphones, up to eight cabinets can be combined at a time, each with individual mic placement and room sound controls, enabling an unlimited array of guitar tones for sophisticated studio productions.

The new sidechaining function in Guitar Rig 5 opens up the world of advanced studio-level dynamic processing, and also perfectly complements the new range of Guitar Rig-based studio processors such as Vintage Compressors and Solid Mix Series.

The sidechain can be assigned to any stereo input of the software, and can be utilized for all compressor modules in Guitar Rig 5 as well as in several of the Modifier modules, allowing for more refined dynamic processing and a wide range of creative techniques.

The performance features of Guitar Rig 5 are further enhanced through the new Container, which allows users to easily create, control and recall encapsulated effect chains.

With up to sixteen flexible macro controls, it also provides extremely powerful and intuitive real-time tone shaping both for guitarists and electronic live performers.

Guitar Rig 5 Pro will be available in September 2011 for $199/179 EUR, and will also be included in the new Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate bundles.

Disclaimer : Information taken from official press release, for more visit Native Instruments.

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Native Instruments Announces Komplete 8 bundle with three new additions plus Komplete 8 Ultimate with even more content & sound libraries.

In what’s now becoming something of a summer tradition, Native Instruments has unveiled a new edition of its popular Komplete software bundle.

Komplete 8 brings together the most recent versions of NI’s software family (including the new Kontakt 5 and Guitar Rig 5) while adding three new products to the bundle, bringing the total amount included up to 27 instruments, effects and libraries.

The new additions come in the form of the newly-announced Kontakt-based acoustic drum instrument Studio Drummer, the upcoming Transient Master dynamic processing effect and the recent West Africa percussion instrument.

The company has also announced the Komplete 8 Ultimate bundle, which combines the full range of all currently available Komplete instruments and effects on a dedicated USB 2.0 hard drive.

The resulting collection brings the Komplete 8 Ultimate package up to a total of 50 individual products, including over 13,000 sounds and 240 GB of sample content. According to NI the Ultimate package results in an effective discount of over 80% compared to the individual prices, which is nothing to scoff at.

Both packages have been optimised to work with the company’s hardware/software goovebox Maschine, with automatic parameter mapping to the hardware control surface.

Both packages will be available from September 2011, Komplete 8 with an RRP of $559 / 499 EUR or $229 / 199 EUR as an update from previous versions. Komplete 8 Ultimate has an RRP of $1099 / 999 EUR or $559 / 499 EUR as an upgrade for owners of any version of Komplete. UK pricing for both TBC.

Check Native Instruments’ site for full details of both packages.

In other news, Native Instruments has also just announced Kontakt 5, Guitar Rig 5 Pro and a new Kontakt instrument called Studio Drummer. Follow the links below to read each press release.

In other news, Native Instruments has also just announced Kontakt 5, Guitar Rig 5 Pro and a new Kontakt instrument called Studio Drummer. Follow the links below to read each press release.

Kontakt 5 press Release

Guitar Rig 5 Pro Release

Studio Drummer Release

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PRESS RELEASE: Native Instruments announced Kontakt 5, the next generation of its leading software sampler, claiming the flagship product of NI is now coming up with enhanced sound shaping, superior timestretching and great new effects.

Software Sampler Kontakt 5

The new version(kontakt 5) offers profoundly enhanced sound shaping through a host of new high-quality filters and studio-grade effect algorithms, superior timestretching, vintage sampling modes, and much more.

Being the top rated sample library platform on the market, Kontakt 5 also announces 2 major new features for advanced instrument design.

In a further major expansion of its unrivalled sound shaping capabilities, Kontakt 5 introduces a completely new suite of high-quality filters, developed by the creative mastermind behind the acclaimed Massive synthesizer.

Ranging from classic analogue-style ladder and state-variable models to modern formant filters, some of the 37 new filters also employ the unique new Adaptive Resonance concept, which automatically manages the filter characteristics to prevent unpleasant sonic artifacts from excessive resonance peaks.

At the same time, the superior new TimeMachine Pro time-stretching algorithm in Kontakt 5 enables unprecedented sound quality for harmonic solo instruments and similar demanding source material.

The comprehensive effect assortment in Kontakt has been extended with several key additions that focus on studio-style sound processing. The new Solid G-EQ and Solid Bus Comp algorithms – derived from the upcoming Solid Mix Series – enable studio-grade equalization and compression, while the separately available Transient Designer has been integrated into the effect arsenal of Kontakt in its original form.

Additionally, a new analogue-modelled Tape Saturator can add natural compression and subtle organic overdrive, while the acclaimed vintage sampling modes from Native Instruments’ groove-production system Maschine have been integrated into the feature set of Kontakt 5 as well to provide additional flavours of charismatic vintage dirt.

For ambitious sound designers and professional sample instrument creators, Kontakt 5 introduces both a powerful new instrument bus system as well as KSP-based MIDI file support. While the 16 internal stereo busses with their separate insert chains open up greatly increased routing flexibility, the MIDI file functions in the Kontakt Script Processor enable the creation of advanced types of Kontakt-based instruments with versatile integrated MIDI playback features, as demonstrated in the upcoming separate Kontakt-based Studio Drummer instrument.

On top of its acclaimed 43 GB factory library with its eight separate instrument collections, Kontakt 5 also includes a free download of the new Kontakt-based Retro Machines MK2 instrument, which offers an assortment of highly sought-after classic synthesizers complete with vintage-style arpeggiator and chord player, and also takes advantage of the new analogue-type filter models.

Kontakt 5 will be available in September 2011 for $399 / 379 EUR, and will also be included in the new Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate bundles. An update for owners of previous Kontakt versions will be available for $119 / 99 EUR.

Disclaimer : All the information mentioned above were taken off the official press release from Native Instruments

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