GForce Software, recently recognized for the greatest software synthesizer of all time, has previewed significant upgrades to another beast in the stable at this year’s NAMM show. impOSCar 2 delivers a slew of new features, many of which have been borrowed from the venerable Oberheim OB8.
Avid today unveiled version 6 of Sibelius First. This powerful, yet easy to use music notation and composition program is designed for aspiring composers and songwriters who may be more comfortable with guitar and keyboard than the intricacies of sheet music editing.
Source Elements announces the release of Source-Zip for Mac OS X. Source-Zip allows for audio projects to be compressed, then easily uncompressed, using lossy or lossless codecs for easy and quicker delivery via the Internet. It is useful for file collaboration, archiving, and final delivery of projects and is 100% automatic and transparent to any audio workstation.
Loomer has announced the release of String, a virtual instrument that emulates the classic sound of the polyphonic string synthesizer. Its authentic tone comes from its accurate emulation of the divide-down oscillator technology and bucket-brigade chorus units behind the lush ensemble synths of the 70s.
Applied Acoustics Systems has released the Entangled Species sound bank for String Studio VS-1 created by composer and sound designer David Kristian.