Ultimate Sound Bank announces Plugsound Pro

Ultimate Sound Bank has announced Plugsound Pro, featuring the next generation UVI Engine and combining easy groove manipulation, presets managements and an 8 GB core library.

Specifications:

• New Hybrid UVI engine, managing instruments and grooves in the same interface.
• 8 Gb of sounds, including the complete award-winning Plugsound Box contents, plus additional classical instruments and loops.
• Universal compatibility Mac/PC.
• Expandable with new UVI Soundcards.
• Unlimited polyphony / low software latency.
• Easy selection with a smart integrated browser, including real-time preview for grooves.
• MIDI learn on most of the parameters, including speed control.
• 64 parts. Parts can be instruments, loops or phrases, with a freely assignable MIDI channel (create stacks and layers in seconds).
• 64 MIDI channels.
• Disk streaming for larger instruments.
• Multiple separate outputs.
• Expert mode to create complex stacks, layers, zone splits and key-switches performance, including instruments, loops and phrases.
• Multis are cross-platform & all host compatible.
• Sound Design-Shaping tools: envelopes, multi mode filters, LFOs, pitch.
• Complete professionals effects arsenal, with easy editing: delay, reverb, phaser, flanger, chorus, EQ, filter, drive, distortion, compressor...

Grooves features:

• Direct sync to host: tempo & transport (user selectable).
• Real-time sync to the beat: loops are always in time.
• State-of-the-art real-time time-stretch algorithm.
• Latch mode to start and stop loops with a simple keystroke (perfect for LIVE application).
• Double/Half tempo with LED indicator.
• Sample/Slice Start for loops and phrases.
• Drag & Drop MIDI files of sliced loops into the sequencer.
• Drag & Drop Audio files from stretched or sliced loops into the sequencer's audio tracks.
• Import of REX files, Apple Loops, AIFF & WAV.

Plugsound Pro is expected to be released mid to late 2006 for Windows and Mac OS X in VST, AU, DX, MAS, RTAS and stand alone formats with the price expected to be around €299.

A series of Plugsound pro and MachFive 2 UVI Soundcard expansions are also planned, with prices ranging from €99 - €149. These will include:

• Retro Organs
• Synth Anthology
• Xtreme FX
• Mayhem of loops
• Retro Keyboards
• Acoustic Pianos
• Jazzistic
• Vintage Drums
• Ircam Solo Instruments (UVI Soundcard Prestige)
• Museum of Percussions (UVI Soundcard Prestige)