Pianoteq just got better with its latest update to version 8.4.0. The big news is that they’ve added a special new piano—the Shigeru Kawai SK-EX Concert Grand. Kawai gave them the green light to make this digital copy of their famous piano. The update brings some cool new stuff for users. They can now use…
Ample Sound just improved its Chinese instrument plugins. With a new update, version 4.0.1, it fixed both its Zheng and Konghou virtual instruments. The music-making tools in these plugins work much better now. Musicians can save their work history, and the notes they play sound more natural and human-like. The tools for writing music are…
Versilian Studios has released The Recorder, a recorder library for Kontakt Player 7.6.1 or later. The library offers 27 instruments with 15 ways to play them. It also includes an extended legato feature with six presets and controls. They recorded the sounds using five microphones, including omni SDCs and ribbon mics. This gives the library…
SampleScience has created a new piano sound that you can play on your computer. It is called the Beskhu Upright Piano, and it has a soft, cozy feel. This piano comes with some cool ways to change its sound. You can add echo, make it wobble, or make it sound like it’s far away. You…
Cherry Audio has released a big update for 2024. They now offer Synth Stack 5, which bundles 30 different music tools. Most of these tools copy famous old synths that musicians love, but they’ve also created some new ones from scratch. When someone buys Synth Stack 5, they get quite a lot. It has 23…
Let’s talk about Toontrack’s newest release. They just came out with something cool for guitar players who love metal. It’s called the Metal Amp Anthology EZmix Pack and works with their EZmix 3 software. This is special because it’s the first pack they’ve made for EZmix 3. They packed it full of different sounds that…
Excite Audio just released a new music tool: Bloom Drum Machine, which works on Mac and PC computers. This drum machine helps people make music with old-school drum sounds. It takes sounds from famous drum machines of the past and puts them all in one easy-to-use tool. When someone gets stuck making music, Bloom can…
A drum machine makes electronic drum sounds and beats. Musicians use these devices to create song rhythms without needing real drums or drummers. Modern drum machines can sound realistic or produce unique electronic percussion that acoustic drums cannot make. History Early development The 1930s saw the first attempts to make automated rhythm devices. Leon Theremin…
The bond market is a place where people buy and sell bonds. Bonds are a type of investment. When you buy a bond, you are lending money to a company or government. They promise to pay you back the money you lent them plus interest. There are different kinds of bonds: The bond market is…
Bollinger Bands are a tool that stock traders use. They help show how stock prices go up and down. The bands use math to make three lines on a chart. The middle line is a moving average. This is the normal price over the last 21 days, for example. The top and bottom lines go…
