Le Lotus Bleu has announced the release of the ACE Steroids Grand Bundle, a collection of 208 patches for the u-he's virtual modular synthesizer, ACE.

ACE Steroids is suitable for all kinds of musical genres and is intended to offer as many useful instruments as possible. It features a mix of Bread-and-Butter and unique and never-heard instruments. All the instruments have been carefully designed to take advantage of the ACE modular architecture, and have real time expression abilities, via the use of the modulation wheel, velocity and other misc MIDI controllers.

Features:

• 208 instruments, clearly organised in thematic folders.
• Includes Basses (22), Keys and Grooves (53), Pads & Brass & Strings (46), Leads (39), Fx & Sequences (28), Percussions (23) Guitars and plucks (8).
• Highly expressive instruments, with many real time expression features.
• CPU Friendly instruments, all playable on a reference PIV Single Core 3 Ghz Computer.
• Designer notes embedded in each patch, including the description of MIDI controllers assignation.
• A PDF manual including preset list, with an individual comment for each instrument, installation procedure, tips and tricks for ACE, some simple cabling examples.

Separate "Asteroids" soundbanks for ACE are available as well: Asteroids 1, 2 and 3 cover different categories of instruments. For example, Asteroids 1 includes all the Basses, Leads, Chords, Guitars and Plucks found in the ACE Steroids Grand Bundle.

Pricing

• ACE Steroids Grand Bundle: €25
• Each Thematic Asteroids Bank: €10

ACE Steroids Grand Bundle is available to purchase for the introductory price of €14.95 until May 21, 2010.

Prices include VAT for EU customers.