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zircon · Post by **zircon** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:54 pm

2010 was the best year for ISW yet, so we've lined up more libraries THIS year than ever before! Here's a roadmap of what we have in store...

* Shreddage X, an expansion pack to the original Shreddage nearly doubling it in size and adding new articulations, drop tuning and true legato

* A new percussion library consisting of tuned and untuned instruments, all never-before-sampled and very in depth (might be split into multiple releases)

* World instruments from the Kazakhstan region

* Solo soprano vocals: operatic, straight/boy soprano tone, breathy, wordbuilding, etc.

* And finally... our biggest library yet, and our first involving an ensemble... can't say more than that yet!

vespers75 · Post by **vespers75** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:08 pm

Curious...whatever happened to the Jillian Goldin vocal library you mentioned making, back in '08?

zircon · Post by **zircon** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:22 pm

That's on the list - the solo soprano library

http://www.JillianAversa.com/

It has taken awhile to get the ball rolling on that because she's been involved in a lot of projects over the last couple years (two albums, appearances on Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, etc.) We actually just got back from Japan where she was performing in a concert series.

vespers75 · Post by **vespers75** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:04 pm

Ah, ok... when you said "straight/boy soprano tone", I thought it was a different product.

zircon · Post by **zircon** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:03 am

Ah OK - that's just referring to a style of singing. Straight tone = no vibrato, very similar to the sound of boy sopranos.

synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:47 am

Great roster of libraries there. Particularly looking forward to the Kazakhstan instruments.

Good work!

SubNormal J3 · Post by **SubNormal J3** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:48 am

Does ISW have any plans to expand into DSP and synthesis plug-ins?

zircon · Post by **zircon** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:38 pm

I'm very interested in that, yes. Believe it or not, I had the idea for a 32/64 bitbridge before jBridge was around and before most hosts started implementing them. Check it out:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... on&start=0

Of course, nobody took me up on the offer, and several questioned what the point would be. Fast forward to today, we now have jBridge and Vienna Ensemble Pro being used by tons of composers/producers. Not to mention REAPER, FL Studio, Cubase etc. all implementing similar bridges. Lesson learned - don't post ideas in public

But anyway yes, definitely interested in DSP!

SubNormal J3 · Post by **SubNormal J3** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:43 pm

zircon wrote:I'm very interested in that, yes. Believe it or not, I had the idea for a 32/64 bitbridge before jBridge was around and before most hosts started implementing them. Check it out:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... on&start=0

Of course, nobody took me up on the offer, and several questioned what the point would be. Fast forward to today, we now have jBridge and Vienna Ensemble Pro being used by tons of composers/producers. Not to mention REAPER, FL Studio, Cubase etc. all implementing similar bridges. Lesson learned - don't post ideas in public

But anyway yes, definitely interested in DSP!

Oh wow. That's bad luck

but hey, keep those ideas coming!

swartzfeger · Post by **swartzfeger** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:14 am

Zircon, any update on the Kazakhstan instruments and the solo soprano?

zircon · Post by **zircon** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:29 pm

The Kazakh library is coming along. All the recordings are done and I just took inventory of all the articulations we did for the Dombrya, a plucked/strummed instrument.

Solo sop. library is planned out but we haven't started on that yet... sorry

Actually, the ensemble project is recorded and in editing too, but I still don't want to reveal anything more about that. Maybe in a YouTube video

claw11 · Post by **claw11** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:27 pm

I'm busy playing with shreddage, but I'm all excited to hear your new projects already

KeithAdv · Post by **KeithAdv** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:48 pm

Think you could shove Jimmy into the studio for Acoustic Revolutions Volume 2?

Volume 1 has been a treasure trove for me!

zircon · Post by **zircon** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:29 pm

Yep, he's on it!

audiojunkie · Post by **audiojunkie** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:22 pm

Any chance you could create a non-metal rhythm guitar package that uses SFZ?

--Sean

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