Musikmesse Frankfurt 2006
Music Software News

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.

Musikmesse Frankfurt Vienna Instruments booth

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.

Musikmesse Frankfurt Vienna Instruments Symphonic Cube


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.

Musikmesse Frankfurt Sienzo Digital Music Mentor

While it doesn't work completely flawless it is still good enough to be very helpful.
 

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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