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The magazine for producers, engineers & recording musicians | 29 August 2008


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EastWest Hardcore Bass, Stormdrum & Bösendorfer 290

EastWest and Native Instruments combine talents to produce a range of New Generation instruments. Ian Waugh samples three of the latest...

Price: £130.00
Manufacturer: EastWest
Website: http://www.arbitermt.co.uk

It can’t be easy thinking up new instruments capable of making an impact on today’s over-saturated synth and sampler sound software market: how many significantly different ways can you combine analogue synth modules? How many new ways are there to use a collection of samples? Giving the user a vast range of controls and encouraging them to ‘get creative’ may enable manufacturers to claim their products are limited only by our imaginations – but most musicians are getting wise to this and, as we all know, the majority of people tend not to create their own sounds anyway.

Score: 8

This review first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 15
Filed under ROMplers, Software

 

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