Le Lotus Bleu has released Gloss Spells, a collection of 260 instruments for Native Instruments' FM 8 virtual synthesizer

Gloss Spells is designed for musicians and producers who want highly expressive and playable instruments for musical genres such as '80s and '90s classic vibes, Electro-Electronica, SongWriting, Trailer or Score writing, Ambient, Rock-Pop, Funk-Disco-Soul, and House-2step.

All the instruments have been designed to take full advantage of FM synthesis features, and have real time expression abilities, via the use of the modulation wheel, velocity and other misc MIDI controllers.

Gloss Spells features:

• 260+ presets, clearly organized and tagged for a perfect integration into FM8 embedded search engine.
• Includes Arps, Chord Sequences, Multitracks (25), Pads and Atmos (55), Keys, Organs, Clavinets, Stabs (79), Brass, Strings, Woodwinds (28), Basses and Keytars (29), Leads and plucks (31) Misc (28).
• Highly expressive instruments, with many real time expression features.
• CPU Friendly patches, all playable on a reference PIV Single Core 1 Ghz Computer.
• Designer notes embedded in each patch, including the description of MIDI controllers assignation.
• A PDF manual including preset list, installation procedure, tips and tricks for for FM8, Operators tuning charts, Advanced mixing techniques for FM8 tutorial.

Price: €29 for EEC customers, around $40 outside Europe. Gloss Spells is available to purchase for the introductory price of €19.50 until October 21, 2011.