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Q Up Arts announce Pop Strings: UK

Q Up Arts is proud to announce availability of Pop Strings: UK — pairing premier sibling string arrangers Harry ‘Runone’ Robinson (cello) and Kate Robinson (violin) with seasoned beat-maker and producer Simon Tew to creatively craft an amazing sample loop/pack pushing the boundaries of highly-intimate and romantic string arrangements written with compatibility and cross usage in mind — as of January 21…

The thinking behind Q Up Arts’ latest entry in its lengthening line of sample loop/packs — PC- and Mac-compatible with any platform that reads WAV files — is perfectly pitched in its to-the-point Pop Strings: UK titling. Two titans of creative contemporary UK pop strings stylings have joined forces thereon to focus on highly-intimate and romantic string arrangements. Think multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriters Adele and Sam Smith, written with compatibility and cross usage in mind. Musically, these gorgeous, lush arrangements are designed to inspire anyone who hears this aptly-named amazing collection, containing an array of detailed recordings arranged into packs where every element plays off the other. On top of those superlative solo and exquisite ensemble string parts, Pop Strings: UK ups the musical ante still further, featuring interesting and bespoke hip-hop beats, bass lines, piano, and keys to provide a plethora of soundscapes at anyone’s fingertips.

Forming the foundation for this contemporary collaboration out of his South West London studio as Pop Strings: UK’s multi-tasking beat-maker/cellist/ pianist/producer/programmer/writer and man of many musical hats is Harry ‘Runone’ Robinson. His healthy résumé reveals much about an ability to take the helm and his roots lie mainly in hip-hop, where he has been making all kinds of beats, ranging from ’90s boom bap to trap. The last three years, however, have played witness to his heavy involvement in working with multi-GRAMMY Award- and BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter Sam Smith, writing string arrangements and playing on his multi-million-selling chart-topping album In The Lonely Hour, currently certified 7x Platinum in the UK and 2x Platinum in the US. Runone is part of RnR Strings, a brother and sister powerhouse duo of string composing, arranging, and performing for a wide range of top-tier artists, such as Björk, Rag ’n’ Bone Man, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Pete Tong, and Stevie Wonder. Collectively, they show a compositional versatility for many musical genres, ranging from pop and classical through to bluegrass and hip-hop. As a multi-instrumentalist, Runone is principally part of Sam Smith’s live band as his leading cellist, responsible for writing and performing the strings for the acoustic version of ‘Latch’ on The Lonely Hour album, as well as writing and performing strings for Rag ’n’ Bone Man, with whom he has also shared the stage. Similarly, his live work with A$AP Rocky, Mary J Blige, Nile Rodgers, Ed Sheeran, and Jesse Ware is as impressive as it is varied. Other creative collaborations include Ragga Twins, Seanie T, and vocalist Vula Malinga (who featured on English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx’s 2005 hit ‘Oh My Gosh’).

As the principal violinist of Heritage Orchestra — the 30- to 60-piece orchestra that collaborates with present-day artists from the mainstream and experimental worlds of music and art, Pop Strings: UK co-collaborator Kate Robinson is a busy and successful musician who regularly performs around the UK and abroad. She has worked with Tori Amos, Anthony and The Johnsons, Aphex Twin, Bat For Lashes, Mary J Blige, Björk, Anna Calvi, Jamie Cullum, Elbow, Paloma Faith, Ben Folds, Goldie, Ellie Goulding, Kylie, Tim Minchin, Ollie Murs, Naughty Boy, Pixie Lott, Emeli Sande, The Cinematic Orchestra, and Jessie Ware. With solo radio broadcasts on Classic FM and Radio 3 to her notable name, Robinson has also performed chamber music in many major concert venues around the UK. Ultimately, a lively interest in a wide variety of music genres has influenced her work. With eight years performing with the alt-bluegrass band The Wagon Tales, with whom she recorded their debut album Introducing..., Robinson now writes and arranges in collaboration with her brother, Harry ‘Runone’ Robinson. Together they have written and recorded strings for various artists, including Sam Smith, who performed to their string arrangement of ‘My Funny Valentine’ at The Golden Globes. Graduate studies took Robinson through the Royal College of Music in London, where she gained a first-class honours degree.

Joining premier sibling string arrangers Harry ‘Runone’ Robinson and Kate Robinson in producing Pop Strings: UK is sound designer and live performer par excellence Simon Tew. Signed to British boutique house label Atjazz Record Company with a solid string of releases over the last five years, he has worked alongside the likes of Kylie Auldist, Aloe Blacc, Osunlade, and Robert Owens. Trew also has released on labels like UK soul and hip-hop imprint Tru Thoughts and German electronic imprint Compost Black. His music can also be heard on TV around the world with regular syncs in the UK from the BBC, Channel 4, and ITV, as well as globally with features on CNN, MTV, National Geographic, and a wide range of other outlets. As musical leader of an inclusive ensemble, he was part of a performance at the BBC Proms at London’s legendary Royal Albert Hall, performing alongside the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. With such talented individuals joining forces to push the boundaries of highly-intimate and romantic string arrangements written with compatibility and cross usage in mind, is it any wonder that Pop Strings: UK’s full mixes, loops, stems, and single hits of solo and ensemble instruments sound so amazing? Anyone aspiring to craft some hits of their own, inspired by those contemporary UK pop strings stylings serving the chart-topping escapades of multi- GRAMMY Award- and BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter Sam Smith so well, should seriously consider investing in Pop Strings: UK from world-class sound collections developer/licensor Q Up Arts.

Anyone attending The 2019 NAMM Show, January 24-27 in Anaheim, California is invited to stop by Booth 14006 where they can hear the amazing sounds of Pop Strings: UK live during demonstrations by Q Up Arts.

Pop Strings: UK can be purchased and directly downloaded (as 6GB of 24-bit/48kHz WAV files) for a time-limited introductory promo price of $49.00 USD — rising thereafter to $99.00 USD — from here: https://www.quparts.com/Pop-Strings-UK-p/popstrg1.htm Watch Q Up Arts’ ‘fact-finding mission’ video for Pop Strings: UK here: https://youtu.be/3mC8ZYfPZbs

Spitfire Audio Release ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR

Spitfire Audio is proud to announce availability of ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR — capturing the breathtaking range of that most personal of musical instruments, the human voice, joyfully crafted and conducted from within the luxurious Lyndhurst Hall at London’s legendary AIR Studios by namesake GRAMMY® Award-winning American composer, conductor, and speaker Eric Whitacre (famed for his so-called ‘Virtual Choir’ projects bringing individual voices from around the globe together into an online choir, as well as his choral, orchestral, and wind ensemble music), ultimately showcasing his 22-singer-strong The Eric Whitacre Singers as Spitfire Audio’s arguably most anticipated virtual instrument library release to date — as of October 25…

ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR really represents one of Spitfire Audio’s largest library undertakings to date, taking the sound-specialising British music technology company’s decade’s worth of sampling experience and applying an authentic approach, affording music-makers a creatively-inspiring choral library that uses voices just like any other section of its orchestral libraries like no other. Famed for its exceptional acoustics, stunning architectural features, and natural light, as well as accommodating a full symphony orchestra with choir simultaneously as one of the largest recording rooms in the world, one of the world’s most experienced sampling teams returned — with Eric Whitacre and his 22-singer-strong The Eric Whitacre Singers in tow — to London’s legendary AIR Studios' luxurious Lyndhurst Hall to record the large library in question. “It was magical,” marvels the man himself, before adding: “It must be my favourite recording room in the world. There’s something about the atmosphere in there; it’s absolutely perfect for voices. It’s got just the right amount of bloom, and the spiritual uplift of its original intention as a church.” Charged with capturing this — via an ‘ear-watering’ selection of sought-after microphones, pristine preamps, and legendary tape machines — was recording and mix engineer extraordinaire (and Spitfire Audio regular), Jake Jackson, justly ensuring that the resulting stunning-sounding ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR shares the same acoustic DNA of Spitfire Audio’s acclaimed orchestral catalogue, so works well with any of those libraries. Lest anyone needs nudging in its general direction, Spitfire Audio is also renowned for its innovative Evo Grid technology. Simple in principal, inspiring in practice, the grid — itself inspired by the breakthrough British EMS VCS3, which made musical history upon its introduction in 1969 by being the first commercially portable synthesiser available anywhere in the world, thanks to its innovative modular matrix-based patchboard dispensing with the telephone exchange-like cabling of other (much larger) modular systems in favour of making space-saving connections with (removable) coloured pegs — takes samples that change in different ways over time and arranges them across the keyboard. Play a simple gesture or chord and it will weave a ‘micro-composition’ that never stands still. Simply speaking, users of ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR can construct their own Evo — ‘Spitfire-speak’ for evolution — by placing an ‘EMS-esque’ (virtual) peg in the relevant hole on the aptly-named Eric Whitacre Choir Evo Grid screen or hitting the randomise button to generate automatically a unique instrument from an almost infinite array of possibilities! Always original, and always musical.

Evidently ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR doesn’t disappoint in that regard; in addition to a full set of orchestral samples — the Choir section of which includes six soprano, five alto, and six bass singers totalling 170 techniques, Spitfire Audio also recorded another stunning-sounding Evo Grid, with each element — 111 evolutions, no less — sculpted by Eric Whitacre. Where the choir meets that Evo Grid technology, a new instrument is born, one that so impressed Eric Whitacre that his was musically moved to comment: “Frankly, I wish I could compose like this in everyday life. The idea is that you can take up to three or four of these evolutions and combine them, or cycle through them as one of them evolves, and suddenly you’re painting music a totally different way, sculpting sound in real time. You can create minutes of profoundly beautiful music in this way.” While clearly converted to the joy of working with his namesake Eric Whitacre Choir Evo Grid, when Christian Henson and Paul Thomson — fellow founders of Spitfire Audio — approached Eric Whitacre with the idea of sampling his choir, he took time to consider the project before eventually realising that this was the perfect vehicle with which to free composers from preconceptions about the voice and how it can be used in music. According to Eric Whitacre, “The palette of sounds is much broader than many people think when it comes to just using voices — from delicate whispers to gritty sounds at the back of the throat, to shimmering clouds of overtones.”

Once onboard the good ship Spitfire Audio, Eric Whitacre set sail towards finding himself at home with the microscopic detail of sampling. Indeed, it reflects his approach to composition, with which he crafts every sinew of sound to have its own musical life and integrity, or, as he puts it, “... hyper-musicality.” Many weeks of recording saw him conducting his choir for every thread of music destined to be housed in the ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR library, conjuring up sounds that range from familiar vocal techniques — including vowels and open vocalisations whose harmonic content transforms with changes in mouth shape — through to more unusual articulations, including shorts and rhythmic passages.

Pressing into play the welcomed assistance and advanced skillset of design and user-experience agency ustwo — responsible for DICE, the world’s fastest- growing live music discovery app, and MONUMENT VALLEY, a surreal exploration through fantastical architecture and impossible geometry, ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR creatively delivers as a bespoke, self-contained (AAX-, AU- VST2-, and VST3-compatible) plug-in, developed primarily for composers, by composers. Above and beyond that, though, it is an exceptional library, filling 200GB of audio that transcends choral cliches of sacred, angelic, and apocalyptic as an encyclopaedia of the voice, vying to enrich any composition. Cue a thought-provoking closing commentary from Eric Whitacre: “What I love about writing for voices is that sometimes a simple minor triad is all you need — no need to dress it up. It’s sophisticated because it’s so simple. And it has a gravity to it. It goes deep — at a cellular level.” Like ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR itself, surely? ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR can be purchased and digitally downloaded — as a dedicated (AAX, AU, VST2, and VST3) plug-in for Mac (OS X 10.10, 10.11, macOS 10.12, 10.13 — 200GB HD or SSD space required) and PC (Windows 8, 10 — 200GB HD or SSD space required) — for a time-limited introductory promo price of £399.00 GBP (inc. VAT)/$449.00 USD/ €449.00 EUR (inc. VAT) until November 9, 2018 — rising thereafter to an RRP of £549.00 GBP (inc. VAT)/$599.00 USD/€599.00 EUR (inc. VAT) — from here:

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/eric-whitacre-choir/ For more in-depth information, including some superb-sounding audio demos, please visit the dedicated ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR webpage here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/eric-whitacre-choir/

Watch Spitfire Audio Director Paul Thomson’s ‘traditional’ video walkthrough of ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR here: https://youtu.be/ca1G-4nMXtg

Watch Spitfire Audio Director Christian Henson’s haunting contextual video, beautifully blending ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR with HANS ZIMMER STRINGS and ÓLAFUR ARNALDS CHAMBER EVOLUTIONS here:

https://youtu.be/uhE726Fbn4w

Watch Spitfire Audio ‘composer-in-residence’ Oliver Patrice Weder’s ‘In Action’ video for ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR here: https://youtu.be/PP2Wb2AtyCQ

Watch Spitfire Audio’s ambiguous yet tantalising trailer video for ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR here:

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Watch another ambiguous yet tantalising trailer video for ERIC WHITACRE CHOIR from Spitfire Audio here:

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Sample Logic Release XOSPHERE 2 - The World's Most Creative Atmosphere Engine

Breakthrough For Atmospheres

XOSPHERE 2

is simply amazing.

Introducing Sample Logic’s largest collaboration in company history and your newest tool for creating unique atmospheres, XO2 is not only an infinite sound sculpting virtual instrument, it also sports over 2,000 inspiring ready-made soundscape presets derived from content curated by leading sound design and virtual instrument companies.

The result is a momentous achievement for Kontakt and for atmosphere creation. This truly is the last atmosphere tool you will ever need.

Get the all new

XOSPHERE 2

AT A GLANCE

2,000+ Sound Sources & Presets with a limitless number of sonic combinations

13GB Sample Content

Sounds from leading industry developers

Dynamic Meta-tag browsing system

Proprietary 4-core XY sound morphing engine

Infinite randomization features for instant inspiration

Hot-swappable effect chain technology

FX Animator & LFO integration for tempo-synced rhythms

BREAKTHROUGH FOR ATMOSPHERES

XOSPHERE 2 is simply amazing. Introducing Sample Logic’s largest collaboration in company history and your newest tool for creating unique atmospheres, XO2 is not only an infinite sound sculpting virtual instrument, it also sports over 2,000 inspiring ready-made soundscape presets derived from content curated by leading sound design and virtual instrument companies. The result is a momentous achievement for Kontakt and for atmosphere creation. This truly is the last atmosphere tool you will ever need.

OVER 2,000 STUNNING INSTRUMENTS

This strategic collaboration between expert sound designers and powerhouse virtual instrument programmers means that XOSPHERE 2 features a breathtakingly diverse range of timbres. In addition to sounds from Sample Logic, sources have been hand-selected from the best of SOUNDIRON, LOOPMASTERS, AUDIO MODERN, SAMPLETRAXX & BLACK OCTOPUS. All presets are intuitively organized in a meta-tag based browser where you can favorite and load elements of any preset with extreme ease- all from one screen, a huge asset for those on a tight deadline. It’s a breeze to find the sound you’re looking for without searching for hours. On the other hand, if knob tweaking is your preference, then XO2 provides many ways to dig deep and craft your own atmospheres with unparalleled flexibility.

now at an introductory price of $299.99, or if you already own the original XOSPHERE, get it now using your serial number for just $249.99 (This is a limited time offer!).

https://www.samplelogic.com/products/xosphere-2/

Here’s an Interview We Did with Jesús Ginard from Wavesfactory

Wavesfactory is and Audio Plugins and Software Instruments Company Based In Spain. Wavesfactory was Started in 2010. With the goal to deliver high-quality audio tools for musicians and engineers. A mindset on improving on every product release in terms of audio quality, ease of use and powerful but simple features.

- What got you interested in music?

I grew up in a family full of musicians. My two grandfathers played in the same band when they were young, both my father and my brother are superb drummers and my uncle is a band director. It's no surprise that I got interested in music from an early age. I've been studying classical music since I was 6 years old and followed studying modern music, guitar, piano and drums.

- Do you remember the first piece of music that moved you? And how has that influenced you?

I remember precisely the moment where a song really moved me for the first time. I was like 9 years old and I was listening to the song "Everything's Alright" from Jesus Christ Superstar's soundtrack. There's a crescendo when Jesus ends his part that gave me goosebumps all over my body. I was like "What the hell did just happened?" and my father that was next to me told me "this is because you like music so much".

- What are some of your favourite musicians, composers or sound Designers. and how Does that influence Wavesfactory?

I really like musicians who do all on their own because I feel sympathetic to them as I do everything in Wavesfactory.

People like Gotye who made a whole album on his parent's barn.

There're two spanish musicians that I also like very much: Guille Milkyway and Damien Lott. Both make stunning records in solitaire. They compose, produce, play, record and mix their own songs. That's definitely inspiring for me.

- What made you decide to start making sample libraries?

"Find something you'd pay to do and make that your job". That's what my father said to me at the time I ended my studies. I love computers, I love music, I love recording. If you do the math the outcome is Wavesfactory.

- I've been a fan since you started making cool inexpensive Kontakt Instruments. Wavesfactory has come a long way. Wavesfactory has great libraries and plug-ins.

Thank you! When I started in 2010 sample libraries were just too expensive for me, there wasn't libraries priced at less than €50. I decided to start offering sample libraries at a lower price point.

Since I was just learning I think it was just fine at the beginning, but over the years I learnt a lot and the libraries were still priced at €9.95. So in mid 2016 I decided to make the switch to a higher price point because I think that the instruments really deserved it.

- I would say everything Wavesfactory releases has character. What do you think sets Wavesfactory apart from others and makes you unique?

I think that what makes Wavesfactory different from the rest is that Wavesfactory is just one person and it's inevitable to print my personality in everything I do.

If we were a team of 30 people surely there will be a "company image" because every company has it, but it won't be that personal.

- Where did the Idea to Make Mercury Piano come from? It's a great piano library.

Thanks! I've been a Queen fan since I was 12, it's the only band that I listened in my childhood. I was following Metropolis Studios on Facebook and I saw a picture of the Studio A with their Fazioli with the title "Freddie's piano".

I know Queen recorded Innuendo and Made In Heaven in that studio, the 2 final records, so I asked "is this Freddie's piano or you just call it that way?". They said that it's actually Freddie's piano so we started arranging the sampling session.

- What  are some of Mercury Piano's  special Features?

Mercury is a very special instrument for me because I wanted to make it perfect in every way. I didn't want to make something that was just "ok", so I wrote down a list of my personal favourite piano libraries like Orange Tree Samples Rosewood Grand, Native Instrument's Alicia's Keys, Cinesample's Piano in Blue and also some others suggested by customers. "I won't release Mercury until it is at least as good as these libraries". It was a big challenge as you can imagine!

It took me a year to make the script, always comparing Mercury's current state with the big piano libraries. One day I came up with a new way of dealing with release samples that was much more realistic than the previous one (the one that everybody uses). When compared with the big boys Mercury sounded superb and alive. Going back to the other libraries was disappointing, I wanted to keep playing Mercury all the time. That was the time I said "OK, this is perfect!".

- Two of my favourite Wavesfactory Libraries are Drum Circle and Newmello I and II. Making Drum Circle must have been fun and challenging. Can you tell us about recording the library? And what are some of the most important features?

Drum Circle is a very special library since it was the first one that involved a large number of people and a big studio.

It's also the first library that featured Kontakt Scripting since that was the time I first started coding. For the first time I was able to implement the features I wanted like articulation remapping and built-in effects.

Perhaps the best feature on the library is being able to select any number of drummers playing at the same time.

Looking at it in perspective it feels to me like I took a big step forward.

- You guys were known for Kontakt libraries, where did the idea of making plug-ins come from? Track Spacer is definitely a one of a kind plugins. What did the idea come from?

I was recording original music for a tv documentary and in the mixing process I just thought I needed a plug-in like Trackspacer that will make the job much easier. I googled it, searched on forums for some time and I didn't find anything so I thought "I'm going to do it on my own!". At the time I didn't had the knowledge to code plug-ins so I got in contact with Xavier Oudin and together came up with Trackspacer.

- Can you explain what it does?

Trackspacer is a unique plug-in, no other plug-in can do what Trackspacer does even 6 years after its release.

It analyses the frequency spectrum of the side-chain signal, then it uses and internal 32-band EQ in order to reduce that frequencies in real-time.

It's similar to side-chain compression (or even multi-band compression), the difference is that a compressor will just analyse the envelope of the side-chain as a whole and will reduce the volume also as a whole. A multi-band side-chain compressor will analyse the envelope of the side-chain as a whole and will reduce the volume on multiple bands independently with different compressor settings. Trackspacer will analyse the side-chain in 32 chunks and will reduce each chunk separately. It's like having a 32-band EQ that reacts automatically inverting the spectrum of the side-chain.

Imagine you have a kick drum and a bass that are in conflict with each other. You will insert Trackspacer to the bass channel and have it listen to the kick (side-chain). Every time the kick hits Trackspacer will analyse the frequency content and will reduce it to the bass. That way the kick will always get on top of the bass when needed, but the bass will still retain all the frequencies when needed too.

- You have just released your second plug-in Spectre. So it’s an eq/saturation and enhancer all in one.  Can you tell us about Spectre? Where did idea come from? Can you explain and tell us what it does.

Spectre is a sound-shaping tool that combines the best features of an enhancer coupled with a graphical parametric equaliser.

It processes the difference between the input signal and the EQ signal, introducing harmonic content to just the part of the spectrum that you want from a variety of saturation algorithms based on classic recording hardware.

I have loved enhancers since I tried the original Aphex Aural Exciter, then BBE Sonic Maximizer and on. I always thought of a plug-in like those in which I could set the type of saturation applied and exactly where and how-much. That's possible with a graphical EQ.

You can use Spectre as if it was a classic boosting EQ with different sonic colours and a very special sound.

- I love the idea of being able to saturate the signal as I want. I think you’ve got a hit plug-in on your hands with this one.

Thank you! It has been very well received by the audio community and I'll keep releasing updates with new requested features.

- What applications do you see people using Spectre for tracking instruments, mixing and mastering? Please give some examples of what you think we should use it for.

Spectre is great on mixes, sub-mixes and mastering too.

I use it to make a fuller bottom-end on kick drum and bass by boosting on the 60 hertz range just a little bit using the Tape color with aggressive setting.

It's also very useful for getting sparkle on the top end by boosting the high-shelf on the Tube setting.

Try boosting the high-shelf in 'Side' processing mode and you'll get a stereo spread that's more natural and pleasing than regular stereo wideners.

- What are some sample instruments (non Wavesfactory) that you like or wish you made?

That's a very good question. I would probably say the Toontrack product line.

- Who are some of your favourite Kontakt developers? (non Wavesfactory)

I have special admiration for small developers that do all on their own like AudioThing, Orange Tree Samples and Fluffy Audio.

I also like Native Instruments, Spitfire Audio and Cinesamples.

- What are some of your favourite plugins (non Wavesfactory)?

I use Xfer’s Serum all the time for all types of synths, I think it’s a masterpiece. I recently discovered OP-X by 'sonicprojects' and I absolutely love it. I don't know what it has but it triggers the nostalgia bit on me on every patch.

- Who are some of your favourite Plug-in developers? (non Wavesafactory)

If I had to choose only one I'd stick with U-he. I love their philosophy and style.

- Which Wavesfactory product are you most proud of?

Tough question again! When creating something there's always a feeling of "I could have done that bit better". I don't have that feeling at all with Sharine. Sharine sounds great, I love the interface (which took me a long time to do!) and it fixes a common problem with shakers and tambourines that wasn't even tried to be solved before. I'm referring to the problem that these percussion instruments have an amount of pre-roll or pre-shift before the main transient and you have to manually shift the midi notes in order for the transient to be placed on beat. Sharine advances the midi notes for you depending on the sample that it's going to be played.

- What’s your favourite hardware or software gear to process samples?

The only process that I do to the samples is de-noising and I think iZotope RX is the best on the market right now being able to de-noise in bulk.

I don't process samples with EQ or compression not even at the recording stage, I like to provide samples as raw as posible and then provide effects in the library.

- What are some dessert-island things you use?

I recently discovered 'Talkbox' by 'mda' and I'm using it all the time for vocals, maybe just a touch of it on a saw-tooth synth following the main chords and the vocal gets fuller instantly. It's also a good way of getting that doubler effect.

I couldn’t live without Celemony’s Melodyne and Voxengo SPAN. I recently got a copy of Soundtheory’s Gullfoss and I think I’m going to love it…  

- What direction do you see Wavesfactory taking?

I would like to continue delivering unique plug-ins and Kontakt instruments as long as I can since it's what I love to do.

- Are you working on something that you would like to tells us about?

I'm working on new plug-ins, new Kontakt instruments and also new versions of old libraries like The Tack.

I have a few ideas for audio plug-in effects that have never been done before (like Trackspacer) and I don't know if they are useful or not until they are released, so I hope you like them! I’m sorry I can’t explain more on future projects…

- Anything else you would like to share?

Thank you for the interview and good luck with The Tapeless World!

Also Be sure to check out there Plugins and Sample Libraries

https://www.wavesfactory.com/

I  Highley Recommend Trackspacer.  https://www.wavesfactory.com/trackspacer/

Trackspacer is an award-nominated plug-in that creates space in a mix by carving the frequencies that the main track needs into another track in real-time.

Trackspacer is no ordinary plug-in, it is similar to a sidechain compressor plug-in but much more powerful, transparent and precise.

TapeOp said: “TrackSpacer is a ridiculously affordable, easy way to get various elements of your mix to interact in useful and musical ways… Final words: buy it! It works!”

https://www.wavesfactory.com/trackspacer/

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MERCURY PIANO - THE ICONIC FAZIOLI GRAND PIANO USED ON LEGENDARY HITS

Mercury piano is a grand piano instrument for Kontakt Player featuring a Fazioli F-228 recorded at Metropolis Studios in London.Mercury piano was one year in the making, taking care of the smallest details in order to make it perfect.The combination of the unique tone of this piano, exquisite recording and leading coding leads many to consider this as one of the best piano instruments on the market.

https://www.wavesfactory.com/mercury-piano/

Spectre is a sound-shaping tool that combines the best features of an enhancer coupled with a graphical parametric equaliser.Spectre processes the difference between the input signal and the EQ signal, introducing harmonic content to just the part of the spectrum that you want from a variety of saturation algorithms based on classic recording hardware.Spectre can be used on individual tracks, sub-mixes, the entire mix and is ideal for mastering.

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Klip          Normally $140.38    Now  $63.87           

Unique electronic music production instrument with inventive parameter editing matrix and 4000+ sample library     

                           Klip is a powerful instrument and drum machine that pushes the threshold of electronic music production, utilising an expansive parameter editing matrix and comprehensive mixer functionality.

Download a free demo of Klip here. (*Demo has a restriction on the user sound library / presets)

Please note: Klip requires an install of the FREE Kontakt Player 5.7.0 – you can download it here

Mash loops, re-mould and merge beats, mangle rhythms, programme in a completely unique fashion - all in real time - tempo, key and beat synced to your host DAW.

Splice loop segments, add convolution reverb, delay, bit crusher, filters and tape warmth emulation. Mix in Klip’s 8 channel mixer with EQ, compression, distortion, transient designers, buss limiter and much more.

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Boost Pro is a simple, powerful, audio processing plugin with a host of advanced features and concise macro knobs for easy use.                

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From Now thru April 15th 2018 Get up to 70% off all Origin of Audio Products

Origins Of Audio is a Sound Design Company that Makes Libraies for Kontakt, Serum, and Zebra 2.

Here are Some Selected Libraies Be sure to check Out there Website for Info on All   https://originsofaudio.com/

Bad Blood (Presets for Serum)  https://originsofaudio.com/product/badblood/

Normal Price 26,99€    Sale Price8,10€ (excl. VAT)

Bad Blood is a sound set which contains 85 presets, from which 21 were constructed in such way that can be used in multiple ways. For example a Pluck sound can be turned into a Pad if you turn one of the Macro knobs. In a similar way, a Pad can be switched to sound like a dark soundscape! Thus in this soundset you will find a total of more than 100 sounds!

We invested in diversity, which means that this soundset can come in handy for many music genres. Pads that can be used in Film Scoring, Video Games or even EDM. Dark soundscapes suitable for Noise, Trap, Video Games and more! In addition, within this soundset you will find 6 custom wavetables as well as 11 custom LFO presets.

Make sure to listen to our audio demos and to watch our videos. Finally, don't forget to visit our Inspire Series to download some free Serum presets and custom wavetables!

Varitis (Presets for U-He Zebra-2) https://originsofaudio.com/product/varitis/

Normal Price 28,99€  Sale Price 14,49€ (excl. VAT)

Varitis. It comes from the ancient Greek word Βαρύτης (/va.ˈɾi.ti.s/) or Βαρύτητα (/va.ˈɾi.ti.ta/), meaning gravity. Space is certainly not the final frontier, since we, the human kind, haven't unraveled all its mysteries yet. This sound set is inspired by space exploration and we tried to capture that feeling on our presets. Color and darkness, taking off and landing, time-travelling and stillness, void and signs of life - a broad spectrum of states, expressed through notes. Once again, this sound set aims at dark cinematic scoring for film and video games. Varitis is a collection of 121 presets for U-He's Zebra² with dark and ghostly soundscapes, fx, swells, evocative and emotional pads, bass, arps and sequences. All of these sounds are waiting for you to explore them and discover their possibilities.

Listen to our audio demos and watch the preset review videos as well!

Virtual Bouzouki & Rebetiko Instruments  https://originsofaudio.com/product/virtual-bouzouki/

Normal Price 89,00€ Sale Price 53,40€ (excl. VAT)

Virtual Bouzouki & Rebetiko Instruments was created and produced by Stavros Genaridis, a Greek musician currently living in Sweden, who gave us the permission to sell this magnificent library via our website.

You might have heard that Greece is all about sun, vacation, swimming, ouzo, beautiful islands and magnificent history. But we are sure that you must have heard the rich music history this country has to offer.

Bouzouki is a Greek musical instrument which was brought to Greece in the 1900s by Greek immigrants from Asia Minor and was established quickly as the central instrument to the rebetika genre and its music branches. Apart from the four-courses bouzouki which is the main focus of this library, you will find as well a three-course bouzouki, a tzouras and a baglamas. These four musical instruments capture the very essence of the folklore & rebetika genre and it's time for you to explore them!

Mysterium – Deconstructed Toy Piano  https://originsofaudio.com/product/mysterium/

Normal Price 79,00€ Sale Price 47,40€ (excl. VAT)

Mysterium - Deconstructed Toy Piano is a sample library for Native Instruments' Kontakt, requires the full version of Kontakt and consists of 16 different instruments! Our initial thought was to record just the natural metallic sound of a toy piano. So we recorded a two octave upright toy piano which have a slightly off-tune sound, and a natural range of C3 to C5. And then we thought that it would be fun to record the dry hits of this actual toy piano. And so we did! But then, we decided to step it up a notch! We began messing around with various sound design techniques and effects and created different and interesting sounds which we have include in this library. Soundscapes, cinematic effects, drones, heavy processed experimental sounds complete the puzzle of agony and mystery. Mysterium can create a unique jittery and enigmatic atmosphere to your compositions.

Spitfire Audio is proud to announce upcoming availability of HANS ZIMMER STRINGS 

Spitfire Audio works with Hans Zimmer on spectacular string sampling library like no other

Spitfire Audio is proud to announce upcoming availability of HANS ZIMMER STRINGS — working with the godfather of orchestral sampling himself, Hans Zimmer, to create a spectacular string sampling library like no other with no fewer than 344 of the greatest players in London assembling at AIR Studios to ultimately have technology transform them into an extraordinary-sounding ensemble available as a plug-in perfected primarily for composers by composers — to Be released March 28…

Arguably one of the greatest — certainly one of the most prolific — film composers of our time, notable for innovatively integrating electronic sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements, Hans Zimmer himself has often said, “The true magic of sampling is when you are creating something that’s impossible in reality.” In reality, creating the greatest film scores in the world involves thinking outside the box. It is little wonder, then, that Hans Zimmer, the godfather of orchestral sampling, came to high-quality virtual instrument and sampling libraries producer Spitfire Audio to turn what would become HANS ZIMMER STRINGS into reality. As such, it is perfected primarily for composers by composers to take the dynamic of any score to hitherto unimaginable levels with what is, it goes without saying, Spitfire Audio’s most ambitious sampling library yet. Make no mistake: when it comes to spectacular string sampling, thinking outside the box doesn’t get much bigger than HANS ZIMMER STRINGS!

So what, exactly, makes HANS ZIMMER STRINGS so special? For starters, Spitfire Audio adopted Hans Zimmer’s groundbreaking approach to large group-sampling and has taken it to another level entirely by assembling no fewer than 344 of the greatest players in London to perform on this library and recording them at AIR Studios. Indeed, it is the combination of such vast numbers of top-tier session players performing together as one whole that led to results that the company collectively could not have dreamt of! By breaking down those players into violins (grouped as 60 full, 20 right, 20 centre, 20 left, and 20 galleries), violas (20 centre and 20 wide), cellos (60 full, 20 right, 20 centre, 20 left, and 20 galleries), and basses (24 centre), the HANS ZIMMER STRINGS production team had the freedom and flexibility to sample them performing a large number of playing techniques, resulting in an amazing amount of compositional possibilities, perfectly usable on projects for many years to come.

Come to think of it, how does Spitfire Audio’s HANS ZIMMER STRINGS sound? It is difficult to describe, but who better to give it a go, then, than company co-founders and composers Christian Henson and Paul Thomson. “When you gather large string forces it is like the thread count with Egyptian cotton sheets; the higher the count, the silkier the feel,” tenders the former, before adding: “HANS ZIMMER STRINGS offers an oceanic patina of strings and articulations. Where some techniques are often angular, here they suddenly take on a fresh beauty; try out the Col Legno Trattos, a totally unique sound.” Submits Paul Thomson: “This really will make you feel like you can create something totally new and extraordinary sounding — for example, the first experience of hearing 60 exceptional cellists playing muted as softly as possible is so memorable! Being able to realise my own musical ideas with this unusual creative toolkit is extremely inspiring.”

It doesn’t get much better than that. Then again, available as a (AAX, AU, VST2, and VST3) plug-in so that it can be used in DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) directly, this is a spectacular string sampling library like no other. This time Spitfire Audio has pulled out all the stops, working with UsTwo, one of the world’s best design and user-experience agencies, to create a composition tool that’s as easy to use as it is inspiring. Honed exclusively for those spectacular samples, HANS ZIMMER STRINGS’ GUI (Graphical User Interface) is clutter-free and focused, featuring sliders for expression and dynamics, and a knob that can be easily customised to the user's personal workflow. Indeed, its intuitive navigation system is tailored specifically for orchestral work. Loading instruments is always a pleasure; preset filtering heightens this further still, so users can get on with what they do best — making music. Moreover, clear and beautiful icons means that they will always know what they are working with at a glance. Production perfection!

Put it this way, though: the name most synonymous with modern film scoring — namely, Hans Zimmer — has not only composed some of the most memorable scores in recent years, but he has also revolutionised music production for film with his innovative approach to sampling and recording. His daring instrument selection and use of unusual techniques have given his scores a distinctive reputation for making the unexpected sound like it couldn’t have been anything else. With HANS ZIMMER STRINGS, Spitfire Audio offers anyone a string library so ambitious and exciting that they’re sure to unlock areas of creativity they didn’t imagine possible! Spitfire Audio is already accepting pre-orders on HANS ZIMMER STRINGS at a time-limited introductory promo price of £549.00 GBP (inc. VAT)/ $599.00 USD/€599.00 EUR (inc. VAT) — rising thereafter to an MSRP of £699.00 GBP (inc. VAT)/$799.00 USD/€799 EUR (inc. VAT) — from here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hans-zimmer-strings/ (Anyone pre-ordering will receive the limited-edition HANS ZIMMER STRINGS book.)  HANS ZIMMER STRINGS Will be available as a dedicated (AAX, AU, VST2, and VST3) plug-in for Mac (OS X 10.10, 10.11, macOS 10.12, 10.13 — 184 GB HD or SSD space required) and PC (Windows 8, 10 — 184 GB HD or SSD space required).

For more in-depth information, including several superb-sounding audio demos, please visit the dedicated HANS ZIMMER STRINGS webpage here: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hans-zimmer-strings/

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hans-zimmer-strings/

Watch Spitfire Audio Director Paul Thomson’s ‘traditional’ video walkthrough of HANS ZIMMER STRINGS here: https://youtu.be/xUiWZ0OQZdo

Watch Spitfire Audio ‘composer in residence’ Oliver Patrice Weder’s HANS ZIMMER STRINGS ‘In Action’ video here: https://youtu.be/xgvAF_jE4Lw

Watch Spitfire Audio’s thrilling trailer video for ALTERNATIVE SOLO STRINGS here: https://youtu.be/lOMjgZ8TwG8