Digital Music Reviews

Evolution Series, an Australian sample library developer, has created what Best Service describe as "the next generation World Percussion virtual instrument offering unprecedented sound quality and endless creativity". evolutionseries.jpg World Percussion is all about creating beautifully engineered and completely unique virtual instruments for the most discerning film, TV, game composers and producers. It is a powerful and easy-to-use sample library using state-of-the-art equipment, a world-class scoring stage, and a treasure trove of beautiful instruments. As a goliath 220 gigabyte library, it features sounds from Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and South America. It also offers up to 7 user controllable microphone positions, both stereo and true 5.0 surround sound, extensive array of velocities and round robin, and hundreds of unique MIDI grooves. Aside from both tuned and untuned percussion, the library helps to fuel composers' creativity through the World Inspire

Longcat Audio Technologies has updated H3D , their 3D audio binaural plugin for Digital Audio Workstations, to version 1.1.1 on Windows and MacOS. This update adds AudioUnit support on MacOS, and fixes general stability issues for both platforms. Aimed at musicians, sound designers or podcasts producers, Longcat’s H3D inserts in major audio software (such as Logic Pro, Digital Performer, Cubase, Live, Pyramix, Nuendo or Reaper), and allows the user to create immersive 3D mixes for headphones, by visually animating a large number of audio tracks in a full-3D interface. 3D object-based mixing: use the 3D interface to visually place and animate sounds. Longcat Audio H3D technology: when listening on headphones, H3D allows panning sound in 3D all around the listener’s head. Unique HRTF processing: H3D uses Longcat own processed HRTF filters in order to achieve the best spatialization effects. H3D Reverb included: immerse your tracks with H3D Reverb, Longcat’s 3D spatialized binaural re