Yamaha AN1X AKAi

PHOTONE | 19th July 2016 | 480.90 MB

Virtual Analog Synthesizer

The AN1x is a powerful retro-analog synth with a really cool new feature that lets you record real-time editing and filtering and be able to store it as part of the sound! A major contender in the new wave of analog-digital synths using DSP modeling of analog waveforms to recreate the coveted sounds of analog synths with modern digital specifications. It offers truly traditional yet modern methods of analog synthesizing, 10 notes of polyphony, 8 knobs for tweaking, and an arpeggiator with dozens of inspiring patterns!

EWQL Brass AKAi

AKAI S5000 [CUE+BIN] | 1.91 GB

Quantum Leap Brass East West’s Quantum Leap Brass fills an important void in most orchestral sample libraries. Desktop musicians who strive for variety and verisimilitude in their jazz and symphonic scores inevitably fall flat when it comes to adding convincing brass parts. In most sample libraries, you can find a modest assortment of solo trumpets, trombones, and saxophones, but few offerings explore the full range of expressive and idiomatic techniques that brass players use. Quantum Leap Brass, on the other hand, truly revels in the unique sounds that brass instruments make. The Quantum Leap Brass library ($695) is offered in formats for GigaSampler, Unity, Akai S1000/5000/6000, Kurzweil, Roland, and E-mu. The five-disc collection (six discs for Akai S1000) includes an assortment of solo trumpet, three-part (unison) trumpet section, solo flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, three-part trombone section, solo tenor and bass trombone, solo tuba, solo saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone), and four-part (unison) French horn patches.

AMG Taste AKAi

Team SynthX | 18/05/2003 | 345.62 MB

You will find on this CD a rare collection of vocal and percussion loops. These would fit nicely into an rnb or hip-hop piece but would be suitable for any production. You will also find on the cd some fine synth sounds thrown in for good measure.

Westside Fusion MULTiFORMAT

AUDIOSTRiKE | 16/09/2015 | 146 MB

Westside Fusion is the fresh new sample library designed to drop right into your Crunk, Club, Dirty South, Reggaeton and Dancehall tracks. You get the ultimate collection of mapped drum kits, instrument and drum loops, stabs and chord patches, synths, instruments, pads and basses, and a whole lot more. Enough to make reams of hot club-ready tracks! All in one expansive, studio-shaking 128-program package. Everything you need to make an entire fusion track is here. Club-spinning dance synths, stabs and hits, sub-rattling basses, bumpin fusion beats, loops and a huge assortment of beat-making drum kits. From fusion giants Sean Paul and Pitbull, to Club-Busting Crunk hit-makers like Lil Jon, you will get the tools the pros use to make platinum happen!

Novation SuperNova AKAi

PHOTONE | 16th September 2016 | 595.27 MB

An excellent polyphonic super synth based on the classic Bass Station. Let’s start with 16 voices of polyphony (20 with the new OS), add three VCO’s using sound modeling to re-create those classic analog sounds with digital clarity and reliability. Amazingly this synth has seven effects per voice! That adds up to 56 effects all programmable and simultaneously available on all voices at all times!!! A macho filter section with hi, low, band pass filtering at 12, 18, 24 dB/oct ranges, resonant and self oscillating, with overdrive and key tracking. There are two extremely flexible LFO sections, two ring modulators, eight audio outputs, complete MIDI parameter control and it is cased in a cool blue 3-space rack unit.

Alesis QS6 AKAi

PHOTONE | 16th September 2016 | 491.08 MB

…::: FORMAT: AKAi :::…

The QS6 is a powerful multitimbral synthesizer from the effects-box geniuses at Alesis. There’s 64 voices of polyphony and 16 parts multitimbrality and tons of memory and expand-ability packed into to this big, blue, beautifully laid out performance synthesizer. Based on the original QuadraSynth series, The QS6 has 8 MegaBytes of samples and uses digital additive/subtractive sample playback synthesis to create high quality stereo grand pianos, organs, strings, drums/percussion, brass, woodwinds, new and classic synth textures, General MIDI, and rhythmic/sonic loops.Based on the original QuadraSynth series, The QS6 has 8 MegaBytes of samples and uses digital additive/subtractive sample playback synthesis to create high quality stereo grand pianos, organs, strings, drums/percussion, brass, woodwinds, new and classic synth textures, General MIDI, and rhythmic/sonic loops. Most of them sound pretty darn great too! However Alesis had not yet fully anticipated the dance craze and so this is not one of those “physical-modeling” synths that began appearing at the same time. And sadly, in addition to the north-bound Pitch/Mod wheels, there are only just two real-time assignable control sliders for live tweaking, which is not a lot at all.

KORG 01/W AKAi

PHOTONE | 16th September 2016 | 534.6 MB

Korg’s 01/W workstation synthesizer debuted in 1991 as the follow-up to the popular M1. The 01/W was the second chapter in Korg’s workstation legacy, which goes on to this day with the Triton and Oasys series. The 01/W was geared towards beginning home studio enthusiasts that wanted to take a step further into a more professional realm. Compared with the M1, the 01/W featured many enhancements including a more dynamic 16-track sequencer (the M1 only had 8-tracks), 254 real world sampled instruments to the M1’s 100, polyphony was doubled from 16 to 32 voices, and greater overall control.The 01/W synthesis engine is based on Korg’s own AI2 sample + synthesis design. AI2 was so successful that most later Korg magesy synths in the 90’s were also based on the new magesy synthesis method. The 01/W is by no means difficult to program. There is a Quick Edit feature where you can adjust the parameters to the sounds you want by using eight soft buttons. That included octave, wave-shaping intensity, filter EG, VDA level, attack, release and effects level. Like the M1, the 01/W lets you layer up to eight Programs simultaneously to create a powerful Combination. Even without getting into the editing interface, the ability to layer any of the 200 programs together means you can create many diverse and interesting sounds.