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Samplesphere releases Quatro Bass Designer, Warlord, QED Vintage Beatbox, BDi, Stylophonic, TAO series and TAO Percussion for Windows VST
7th October 2013
Samplesphere has released several new VST instrument and effect plug-ins for Windows: Quatro Bass Designer, Warlord, QED Vintage Beatbox, BDi, Stylophonic, TAO series and TAO Percussion.
Quatro Bass Designer (£30.00) is bass instrument which can combine up to four separate basses from a selection of electric bass guitar and synth basses, each with its own controls and effects rack.
Basses:
- Fingered.
- Picked.
- Muted.
- Slapped.
- 39 Synth Basses.
Features:
- MIDI channel and audio output options for each bass.
- Separate bend range for each bass.
- Solo and Mute for each bass.
- MIDI Learn and full automation for all controls.
- 128 Presets.
- Need to know information is accessed via the (i) button on the interface.
Effects:
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Distortion.
- Chorus.
- Delay - Host tempo aligned. Ping-pong or straight, depending on left and right length settings.
- A separate stereo Quatro Effects Rack unit is included.
Warlord (£35.00) provides machine gun, helicopter, explosion, and fire sounds.
Features:
- MIDI learn and full automation for all controls.
Machine guns:
- 20 named guns.
- Separate controls for each gun.
- Low and High pass filters for each gun.
- Separate volume and duration control for each gun's spent shell ejection.
- MIDI channel and output options for each gun.
- Information for each gun is accessed via the "INFO" button.
Explosion:
- 4 separate explosions.
- Separate controls for each explosion.
- Separate filters, volume and duration control for the blast and debris elements of each explosion.
- MIDI channel and output options for each explosion.
- Information for each explosion is accessed via the "INFO" button.
Fire:
- 4 separate fires. (2 wood and 2 synthetic).
- Separate controls for each fire.
- Separate filters, volume and release control for each fire's flame and crackle.
- MIDI channel and output options for each fire.
- Information for each fire is accessed via the "INFO" button.
Helicopter:
- Separate filters and controls for each sequence.
- MIDI channel and output options for each sequence.
- Information for each sequence is accessed via the "INFO" button.
Helicopter sequences include:
- Approach-land-idle-take off.
- Approach-land-idle-stop.
- Idle.
- Idle-take off.
- Start up-idle-take off.
- Fly over.
QED Vintage Beatbox (£30.00) is comprised of emulated kits of vintage drum machines.
Features:
- 1,313 individual kit pieces.
- 131 kits.
- Two channels each for bass drum and snare, (A and B).
- Solo option to audition A - B bass drums and snares.
- Independent filters, delay and reverb for each instrument channel.
- Delay - host tempo aligned. Ping-pong or straight, depending on left/right length settings.
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Output options - instrument or master out.
- MIDI learn and full automation.
- Need to know information is accessed via the (i) button.
BDi (£28.00) is a multiple output bass drum instrument. It can combine four separate bass drums.
Features:
- 200 different drums.
- MIDI channel and audio output options.
- Separate effects for each drum:
- Reverb.
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Delay - host tempo aligned. Ping-pong or straight, depending on left and right settings.
- MIDI learn and full automation for all controls.
- 128 presets.
- Need to know information via the (i) button on the interface.
Stylophonic, only available as a free addition to a BDi purchase, is an instrument based on the 1960s/70s "pocket organ". As with the original, Stylophonic has vibrato and a range of just over one and a half octaves running from A1 to E3.
Added features:
- Volume.
- ADSR.
- Pan.
- Effects:
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Vibrato rate and depth control.
- Chorus.
- Delay - host tempo aligned.
- Voice mode - mono/poly.
- Pitch bend range.
- 2 new sounds from a more recent version.
- MIDI learn and full automation for all controls.
TAO series (£10.00 each; £30.00 complete set) is a set of three Chinese instruments.
Instruments:
- ErHu - bowed string.
- GuZheng - plucked string.
- Sanxian - plucked string.
Features (All have these features except Erhu, which has no Octave option):
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Chorus.
- Delay - host tempo aligned.
- Reverb.
- Vibrato - modulation wheel controlled.
- Octave; plays two notes an octave apart.
- MIDI learn on all controls with full automation.
- Need to know information is accessed via the (i) button.
TAO Percussion, only available as part of a complete set purchase, is a small set of Chinese percussive instruments.
Instruments:
- Jiangzhou Dagu - drum.
- Dagu - drum.
- Paigu - drums.
- Cymbals.
- Gongs - pitched and large.
- Bangzi and Muyu - wooden percussion.
- Bells.
Features:
- Output options master or instrument out - 9 outputs in total.
- Independent effects for each instrument strip.
- Reverb.
- Delay - host tempo synchronised, ping-pong or straight depending on left/right length settings.
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- MIDI learn (right click) and full automation for all controls.
- Need to know information is accessed via the (i) button.
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