Digital Music Reviews

Camel Audio has released two new Alchemy Soundbanks - Luftrum: Ambient and Cameleon: Remixed. Like all Alchemy Soundbanks, each bank is a standalone instrument in its own right, as it comes with a complementary copy of the new Alchemy Player, and costs $59 / €49 / £39. Luftrum: Ambient is "a journey between worlds, from summer afternoons to the icy depths of space". With dense washes of warm, shimmering pads and soundscapes, gentle guitar and piano arpeggios, music boxes, delicate, and ethereal sound effects that "totter between beauty and despair", this is a particularly inspiring collection for the ambient musician, film, TV or game soundtrack composer. Its darker elements include chilling machine sounds, disturbing alien atmospheres, the voices of haunted children, water droplets, plus a sprinkling of the avant-garde. This library contains 150 presets and incorporates a 127 MB sample library full of "fascinating details covering interior and exterior atmosph

Tekky Synths has announced the release of THriCe, a new 3-oscillator synthesizer VST instrument plug-in for Windows. The full version costs €30 but a free version is also available - the only restriction is the missing filter modulation by the 3 StepSeq LFOs. THriCeFeatures: 3 Oscillators: Waveforms: Saw, Sawx2, Square, Ramp, THriCe OSC. Waveforms: Sine, Saw, Triangle, Square, THriCe OSC. Waveforms: Saw, Sawx2, Square, Ramp, Detuned OSC. THriCe OSCillator is a dedicated FM OSC. Detuned is a Unison OSC. Each OSC has its own individual StepSeq LFO filter modulation. One multiband filter block per OSC plus a moog-like main filter. A main LFO to give more life to patches. Velocity gater with adjustable timing and random sequence creation. Internal sequencer with adjustable sequence length, speed, scale and random feature. Three more random options for patch creation. Filter, Filter Seq or Full synth. A main complete FX section with random features.

Line 6 has announced the release of the POD Farm 2 and POD Farm 2 Platinum software plug-ins. The pair of AU/RTAS/VST plug-ins build upon the foundations set by their predecessors to deliver "extensive model counts, a simple yet powerful workflow and world-renowned POD tone for any digital audio workstation". "The new plug-ins offer extensive updates and functionality that recording guitarists have been asking for," remarked Mike Murphy, Category Manager for POD and PC Products at Line 6. "Enhanced routing with flexible DSP, POD Farm Elements, and full MIDI support provide an experience that's both powerful and intuitive." The enhanced routing with flexible DSP (digital signal processing) inspires creativity and allows for a broad range of tones. Users can build Dual Tones, which are dual signal chains that can be played separately or simultaneously. Dual Tones can include up to twenty effect models of any type placed in any order within the signal ch