Cluster Sound has announced the release of House O' Matic (€39.95), a new multi-format download library, and several new free XPander Packs for Tech Producer DSP (€229), which has now hit 18 gigabytes of content. The three new XPander Packs are quite different from the previous ones and represent a new approach to Cluster Sound multi-sampled libraries:

• XP11 - CS-Sigma
• XP12 - CS-SX1000
• XP13 - SST-282 Convo

CS-Sigma & CS-SX1000
CS-Sigma and CS-SX1000 are two powerful multi-sampled synthesizers based on Kontakt's KSP engine. Thanks to their intuitive and useful interfaces users can directly control in few clicks lot of Kontakt parameters and store their customized patches. The user interfaces are organized in 5 sections that allow users to choose their favourite filter and apply to it an LFO oscillator, to choose and apply insert effects and much more. CS-Sigma & CS-SX1000 consist of 1,000 WAV samples recorded from the analog vintage Korg Sigma & Jen SX-1000.

CS-Sigma & CS-SX1000 parameters:

• SYNTH: Detune - Spread - Filter Menu (LP6 - LP2 - BP4 - HP4 - Phazor) - Cutoff - Resonance - Attack - Decay - Sustain - Release
• FILTER ENV: Cutoff / Resonance (Attack - Decay - Sustain - Release).
• FILTER LFO: Cutoff LFO Menu (Sine - Rectangle - Saw) - Resonance LFO Menu (Sine - Rectangle - Saw) - Amount - Frequency - Fade - Pulse Width.
• PITCH LFO: Pitch LFO Menu (Sine - Rectangle - Saw) - Amount - Frequency - Fade - Pulse Width - Pitch DBD (Decay1 - Break - Decay2).
• EFFECTS: LoFI - Distortion - Phaser - Flanger - Chorus - Limiter.

Space Station Convo
In 1979 a small company called Ursa Major introduced a strange and wondrous signal processor called the Space Station (SST-282), a vintage machine designed for echo, ambience, and reverb effects. Cluster Sound SST-282 Convo is a convolution library for Kontakt based on a real Ursa Major machine and designed for vintage echo and reverb effects simulation. The Cluster Sound team has stored 225 settings and recorded two different IR impulse types for each setting (Low + High impulses) and the result is a reverb plug-in which accurately reproduces the deep, warm and mysterious sound of this rare vintage machine.

House O' Matic download library (€39.95)
House O' Matic is a flexible multi-format library designed for Tech House productions: 925 Mb of construction loops and grooves, filtered micro breaks, fat basses, chord synths, vocal loops and much more. In addition to the WAV loops & samples, the library contains hundreds of multi-format instruments, drum kits and sliced loops (Rex2 / Drum Racks) that will allow users to create customized sequences. House O' Matic is extracted from Tech Producer DSP and consists of 700 WAV, 400 Rex2, 1200 Instruments & Drumkits and 70 MIDI loops.