Samplesphere releases Quatro Bass Designer, Warlord, QED Vintage Beatbox, BDi, Stylophonic, TAO series and TAO Percussion for Windows VST

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.