Keyboard Magazine is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the keyboard related instruments.

I am now in the absolutely horrible position of having to recommend yet another bloody Four Seasons. This is digital, and you can actually just listen to it as though it were a real record. It sounds, in fact, not entirely unlike an analog master tape! There is real texture here. When you boost the volume, or listen critically to the sound of specific instruments, it doesn't just fall apart like CD sound so often does. It's so good that you won't want to do any of those silly audiophile-type things. You'll just want to enjoy the music.

The Perfection of Music - Masterpieces of the French Baroque is a new series of five discs of French Baroque chamber music. This album, Volume 1 in the series, explores the beautiful cantata repertoire, featuring Taryn Fiebig, Fiona Campbell, an ensemble on period instruments playing rare Baroque pieces and several world premiere recordings. With in-depth scholarly notes on Baroque music and performance practice, this prestigious series will become indispensable to any fan of Baroque music.

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MAGIX Music Maker 16 Premium means making music with all the equipment! Start now with plenty of extras and make your own songs fit for the radio charts – without any experience! Even more sounds, more realistic instruments, and more effects – thanks to its expanded sound design, real 5.1 Surround mixing, highquality live tools, and useful studio extras, you can even deeper into the world of music production.

MAGIX Music Maker 16 Premium means making music with all the equipment! Start now with plenty of extras and make your own songs fit for the radio charts - without any experience! Even more sounds, more realistic instruments, and more effects - thanks to its expanded sound design, real 5.1 Surround mixing, high-quality live tools, and useful studio extras, you can even deeper into the world of music production.

MAGIX Music Maker 16 Premium means making music with all the equipment! Start now with plenty of extras and make your own songs fit for the radio charts – without any experience! Even more sounds, more realistic instruments, and more effects – thanks to its expanded sound design, real 5.1 Surround mixing, highquality live tools, and useful studio extras, you can even deeper into the world of music production.

House O Matic is a flexible multiformat library designed for Tech House productions: 925 Mb of worldclass quality construction loops and grooves, filtered micro breaks, fat basses, chord synths, vocal loops and much more. In addition to the WAV loops & samples you will get hundreds of multiformat instruments, drum kits and sliced loops (Rex2 / Drum Racks) that will allow you to create your customized sequences. House O’ Matic is extracted from the acclaimed Tech Producer DSP and consists of 700 WAV – 400 Rex2 – 1200 Instruments & Drumkits – 70 MIDI loops. House O’ Matic: the right choice for punchy and stylish TechHouse music.

With version 4, KONTAKT enhances its position as the professional's sampler of choice. Building on the outstanding features of the previous versions, including the unrivaled audio engine and state-of-the-art semi-modular architecture, KONTAKT 4 delivers new sonic horizons for your music. An expanded sound collection connects you to an immense number of instruments, and the new Authentic Expression Technology (AET) is at the cutting-edge of dynamic and true instrument simulation.

Segments: "A Rustic Ballad," a story of feuding hillbillys; "A Tone Poem," a mood piece set on a blue bayou; "A Jazz Interlude," a bobby-soxer goes jitterbugging with her date at the malt shop; "A Ballad in Blue," dark room, rain and somber landscapes illustrate the loss of a lover; "A Musical Recitation," the story of Casey at the Bat; "Ballade Ballet," ballet dancers perform in silhouette; "A Fairy Tale with Music," Peter and the Wolf; "After You've Gone," four musical instruments chase through a surreal landscape; "A Love Story," about the romance between a fedora and a bonnet; "Opera Pathetique," the story of Willie, the Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met.

Segments: "Once Upon a Wintertime," two lovers recued from an icy river by friendly animals; "Bumble Boogie," bee beset by musical instruments and symbols come to life; "Johnny Appleseed," story of the legendary pioneer tree-planter; "Trees," mood piece set to musical treatment of Joyce Kilmer's poem; "Little Toot," story of a heroic little tugboat who saves an ocean liner; "Blame it on the Samba," Donald Duck and Jose Carioca have the blues blown away at a Latin cafe; "Pecos Bill," story of the legendary cowpoke, his trusty mount Widowmaker and his sweetheart Slue Foot Sue.

With version 4, KONTAKT enhances its position as the professional's sampler of choice. Building on the outstanding features of the previous versions, including the unrivaled audio engine and state-of-the-art semi-modular architecture, KONTAKT 4 delivers new sonic horizons for your music. An expanded sound collection connects you to an immense number of instruments, and the new Authentic Expression Technology (AET) is at the cutting-edge of dynamic and true instrument simulation.

KONTAKT 4 offers endless possibilities to really get inside your samples. You can easily edit, loop, slice and time-stretch your sounds and pitch shift them in real time or tempo-sync them with the powerful Wave Editor. Draw your own custom envelopes directly into the sample waveform to easily and precisely modulate any parameter, or use step sequencers and flex envelopes to tweak your samples. Refine your sound even further with any of the 19 versatile studio-quality effects such as the convolution effect for super-realistic reverbs, or use the powerful surround sound features for cinematic productions.

NoteAbilityPro is a professional music notation package for the Macintosh OS X operating system. Developed by Dr. Keith Hamel at the University of British Columbia, it is easily the most sophisticated music notation software available on any platform. NoteAbility combines both musical intelligence and graphical flexibility in a direct and intuitive graphical user interface. Notate anything from simple melodies to complex avant garde orchestral music, play the score on your MIDI synthesizer or using Quicktime Musical Instruments and print a publishable copy of your score on any OS X compatible printer.

NoteAbilityPro is a professional music notation package for the Macintosh OS X operating system. Developed by Dr. Keith Hamel at the University of British Columbia, it is easily the most sophisticated music notation software available on any platform. NoteAbility combines both musical intelligence and graphical flexibility in a direct and intuitive graphical user interface. Notate anything from simple melodies to complex avant garde orchestral music, play the score on your MIDI synthesizer or using Quicktime Musical Instruments and print a publishable copy of your score on any OS X compatible printer.

Minimal Torsion is a sound collection designed for Minimal music and based on various distorsion and saturation techniques. The library consists of 560 Mb of worldclass quality construction loops, broken synth sequences, different kind of micro distorted percussive loops, grained low-freq loops, digital and analog noises, Moog Sonic 6 loops and much more. All the included material is obtained by analog and DSP sources, distorsions and filters but they never sound rough or rude. All the loops can be easily arranged to create very minimal or complex tracks and will guarantees a massive impact to your productions.
In addition to the WAV loops and the related REX / Live Drum Rack versions, Minimal Torsion provides hundreds of multi-format percussive and pseudo-percussive instruments that can be used to create your own breaks or that can be played as micro-synthesizers. All Minimal Torsion elements are 24bit native WAV format, are meticulously edited, have an excellent dynamic range and guarantee the best audio quality.

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Samplitude 11.5 Producer is the professional complete solution for ambitious musicians and producers - no matter whether at home, during rehearsal, or in the project studio. More possibilities: From multi-track recording to audio editing, from composition, sound processing, and mixing to CD mastering. Whatever you have planned, your music is the focus. Top functions for your music project: Easy to use; Direct multi-track recordings; First-class virtual instruments; High-quality studio effects; Professional mixing console; Synchronous audio & MIDI editing; Mastering suite for perfect sound; Retroactive pitch correction; Burn audio CDs (RedBook); Publish online directly; Supports VST, ASIO, ReWire, DirectX.

SOUNDS OF POLYNESIA is a wonderful and unique virtual instrument for everyone who would like to discover the rich sounds of the South Pacific and use them in their music.
The sample library was produced by Airileke ( Airi ) Ingram who recorded a host of indigenous instruments. There are also village ambience tracks from Airi s village Gabagaba in Central Province of Papua New Guinea and Munum village in the Morobe Province, and spoken and chanted vocals. Most of the instruments featured in this amazing product come from Papua New Guinea ( PNG ), a nation in the western region of the South Pacific Ocean, to the north of Australia. It is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world with over 800 languages and over 3000 dialects!