Samplesphere releases Quatro Bass Designer, Warlord, QED Vintage Beatbox, BDi, Stylophonic, TAO series and TAO Percussion for Windows VST
Samplesphere has released several new VST instrument and effect plug-ins for Windows: Quatro Bass Designer, Warlord, QED Vintage Beatbox, BDi, Stylophonic, TAO series and TAO Percussion.
Quatro Bass Designer (£30.00) is bass instrument which can combine up to four separate basses from a selection of electric bass guitar and synth basses, each with its own controls and effects rack.
Basses:
- Fingered.
- Picked.
- Muted.
- Slapped.
- 39 Synth Basses.
Features:
- MIDI channel and audio output options for each bass.
- Separate bend range for each bass.
- Solo and Mute for each bass.
- MIDI Learn and full automation for all controls.
- 128 Presets.
- Need to know information is accessed via the (i) button on the interface.
Effects:
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Distortion.
- Chorus.
- Delay - Host tempo aligned. Ping-pong or straight, depending on left and right length settings.
- A separate stereo Quatro Effects Rack unit is included.
Warlord (£35.00) provides machine gun, helicopter, explosion, and fire sounds.
Features:
- MIDI learn and full automation for all controls.
Machine guns:
- 20 named guns.
- Separate controls for each gun.
- Low and High pass filters for each gun.
- Separate volume and duration control for each gun's spent shell ejection.
- MIDI channel and output options for each gun.
- Information for each gun is accessed via the "INFO" button.
Explosion:
- 4 separate explosions.
- Separate controls for each explosion.
- Separate filters, volume and duration control for the blast and debris elements of each explosion.
- MIDI channel and output options for each explosion.
- Information for each explosion is accessed via the "INFO" button.
Fire:
- 4 separate fires. (2 wood and 2 synthetic).
- Separate controls for each fire.
- Separate filters, volume and release control for each fire's flame and crackle.
- MIDI channel and output options for each fire.
- Information for each fire is accessed via the "INFO" button.
Helicopter:
- Separate filters and controls for each sequence.
- MIDI channel and output options for each sequence.
- Information for each sequence is accessed via the "INFO" button.
Helicopter sequences include:
- Approach-land-idle-take off.
- Approach-land-idle-stop.
- Idle.
- Idle-take off.
- Start up-idle-take off.
- Fly over.
QED Vintage Beatbox (£30.00) is comprised of emulated kits of vintage drum machines.
Features:
- 1,313 individual kit pieces.
- 131 kits.
- Two channels each for bass drum and snare, (A and B).
- Solo option to audition A - B bass drums and snares.
- Independent filters, delay and reverb for each instrument channel.
- Delay - host tempo aligned. Ping-pong or straight, depending on left/right length settings.
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Output options - instrument or master out.
- MIDI learn and full automation.
- Need to know information is accessed via the (i) button.
BDi (£28.00) is a multiple output bass drum instrument. It can combine four separate bass drums.
Features:
- 200 different drums.
- MIDI channel and audio output options.
- Separate effects for each drum:
- Reverb.
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Delay - host tempo aligned. Ping-pong or straight, depending on left and right settings.
- MIDI learn and full automation for all controls.
- 128 presets.
- Need to know information via the (i) button on the interface.
Stylophonic, only available as a free addition to a BDi purchase, is an instrument based on the 1960s/70s "pocket organ". As with the original, Stylophonic has vibrato and a range of just over one and a half octaves running from A1 to E3.
Added features:
- Volume.
- ADSR.
- Pan.
- Effects:
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Vibrato rate and depth control.
- Chorus.
- Delay - host tempo aligned.
- Voice mode - mono/poly.
- Pitch bend range.
- 2 new sounds from a more recent version.
- MIDI learn and full automation for all controls.
TAO series (£10.00 each; £30.00 complete set) is a set of three Chinese instruments.
Instruments:
- ErHu - bowed string.
- GuZheng - plucked string.
- Sanxian - plucked string.
Features (All have these features except Erhu, which has no Octave option):
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- Chorus.
- Delay - host tempo aligned.
- Reverb.
- Vibrato - modulation wheel controlled.
- Octave; plays two notes an octave apart.
- MIDI learn on all controls with full automation.
- Need to know information is accessed via the (i) button.
TAO Percussion, only available as part of a complete set purchase, is a small set of Chinese percussive instruments.
Instruments:
- Jiangzhou Dagu - drum.
- Dagu - drum.
- Paigu - drums.
- Cymbals.
- Gongs - pitched and large.
- Bangzi and Muyu - wooden percussion.
- Bells.
Features:
- Output options master or instrument out - 9 outputs in total.
- Independent effects for each instrument strip.
- Reverb.
- Delay - host tempo synchronised, ping-pong or straight depending on left/right length settings.
- Filter - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Band Reject.
- MIDI learn (right click) and full automation for all controls.
- Need to know information is accessed via the (i) button.