I have
been at Musikmesse Frankfurt this year to see what's new in music software and also
had the chance to talk to developers to find out what's planned in the
near future.
April 2006 - Frankfurt International Music Fair
part 1 - Steinberg,
Apple, Image Line
part 2 - Vienna Instruments, Sienzo DMM
part 3 - Celemony, Arturia
part 4 - PG Music, Native Instruments
part 5 - Matrox,
Make Music, Sibelius
Vienna Instruments
After shocking
the sampling world with the gigantic Vienna Symphonic Library, they did it again!
In just a short time they developed a sampler that can play that library in all
it's beauty.
They said they've
first been trying to cooperate with renowned software samplers, but it was too
difficult to adapt a already written software to the subtle needs of playing
this advanced orchestra. So they decided to develop their own sampler with all
the features needed to make the different instruments sound as realistic as
possible.
And they do! It
gets harder and harder to distinguish the sampled from the real one. In their
Symphonic Cube you get an orchestra that you can play on a keyboard that sounds
very close to the original.
Sienzo
A very useful software, the DMM (Digital Music Mentor) has been presented at
Frankfurter Musikmesse. It analyses audio files (wav or mp3) and gives you the
chords or guitar tabs nicely on a sheet. You can then add the lyrics and save it
as a file.
While it doesn't
work completely flawless it is still good enough to be very helpful.
continue here...
part 1 - Steinberg,
Apple, Image Line
part 2 - Vienna Instruments, Sienzo DMM
part 3 - Celemony, Arturia
part 4 - PG Music, Native Instruments
part 5 - Matrox,
Make Music, Sibelius
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