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)