Create orchestrations of up to 8 staves, and enter notes by clicking them into the staff or importing MIDI or MusicXML files. Once your music is in NotePad, you can hear it play back, see it on the printed page, and share it with other NotePad and users of other Finale family music notation software.
The Saturation Knob is a modeled output distortion that can be used anywhere you need some grit. Use it to fatten up bass lines, add some harmonics and shimmer to vocals, or simply destroy your drum loop. The three modes, Keep High, Neutral and Keep Low give you three kinds of characters of distortion. If you want to squash a drum loop but keep the bass drum fairly intact, you can for example use the Keep Low mode
Ample Guitar G aim to bring the Gibson Les Paul Custom Guitar sound to your studio.
Ample Bass P (ABP) , a new electric bass instrument based on samples of a Fender Precision Bass.
*AS* is dedicated to reproducing the exact sound of classic instruments in virtual instrument software with accuracy and pristine clarity. ABP has a 3.6 GB sample library which is naturally recorded on every single fret. No destructive editing and dynamic processing are applied (which leaves more room for users’ modification). Ample Bass features 14 bass articulations: Sustain, Palm Mute, Natural Harmonic, Hammer On & Pull Off, Legato Slide, Slide in & out, Pop, Slap, Tap, Accentuated, Staccato and Dead Note. The Legato articulations can be used to achieve legato notes of any duration, pitch and polyphony.
On November 20th, 2014, VOCALOID4 was officially announced through a livestream and some companies appeared announcing their upcoming updated VOCALOIDs. VY1v4 was one of these upcoming VOCALOIDs for the new engine. Its voicebank was used to showcase the new features and capabilities of the VOCALOID4 engine. It was revealed that VY1v4 also contained four voicebanks: Normal, Power, Natural, and Soft. VOCALOID4 and VY1v4 became available on December 17th, 2014, making it the first vocal to be released for the engine. Shortly prior to VY1v4’s release, the YouTube demo uploads of iNSaNiTY and COSMONAUTS were set to private due to YAMAHA’s request. They were once again made public after VY1v4 released.
Artillery is a MIDI-controlled multi-effect plug-in that comes with 28 effects which can be put to keyboard zones and triggered with MIDI notes. With Artillery you can create unlimited effect combinations and modulate effect parameters with an unlimited number of modulator engines. The included effects vary from classics (Delay Effects, Filters, Compressors, etc.) to innovative creations like Looper, Step Looper, Reverser, Vocoder with internal Synth, Vowel Filter, Karaoke or a Turntable effect.
Cyclop has landed. A powerful monster that has grown out of all the sounds in the universe. And with it comes bass — lots of it. Synthesis in its purest form. Spectral, digital, or fat analog. Use your own samples as a wavetable, throw effect sequencer orgies, drop on filters and make wobble basses never heard before. Cyclop is here to create new sound. Wrap your bass around your drums like melted sugar around a hot chili pepper. Cyclop is monophic and it will blow your mind. Wobble bass? Dubstep? Do something completely new!
