Native Instruments today introduced Evolve Mutations 2, a new Kontakt Player-based instrument for movie, TV and game composers.

Evolve Mutations 2 is available for download purchase in the NI Online Shop for $119 / 99 EUR. A DVD bundle that combines both Evolve Mutations products is also available for $169 / 149 EUR.

If you’ve used Evolve Mutations 2, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Description:

Evolve Mutations 2 contains over 300 new sounds based on 2 GByte of samples. The material is organized into four categories:

“Rhythmic Suites” include stirring percussive and tonal loops complete with individual slices and keymapping;
“Percussive Kits” allow the creation of original percussive beds;
“Stings & Transitions” support a composition with striking and suspenseful transitional elements;
“Tonality & FX” provide a range of highly expressive, evocative instruments and pads.

Xhun Audio has introduced LittleOne – a virtual emulation of the Moog Little Phatty analog synthesizer.

Description:

LittleOne emulates every component of the Little Phatty (oscillators, filter, envelopes, LFO …), preserving the original frequency responses and frequency ranges.

The result is an analog-sounding instrument – all in the digital domain. In addition to the Little Phatty synthesizer emulation, LittleOne encloses a full rack with a 16-step MIDI sequencer, a 16-step trancegate effect and two master effects slots.

Specs

The Moog Little Phatty Physical Modeling emulation
Two aliasing-free analog modeled oscillators with continuous selection mode ( like the original ) between Triangle, Saw, Square, Pulse
A 4-Pole Low Pass filter modeled on the classic Moog Ladder, featuring the original frequency responses and overload control
Two 4-Stage ( ADSR ) envelope generators
Modulation LFO with the original waveforms and frequency ranges ( 0.2~500 Hz )
Monophonic/polyphonic mode, pitch bend ranges and more – all accessible from LittleOne LED display
128 ready-to-use presets from classic analog to contemporary cutting-edge dance to psychoacoustic sounds and SFX
XSQ16M, a build-in 16-step MIDI sequencer
GATED!, a build-in 16-step trancegate effect
Two master effects slots with the possibility to choose between delay, reverb, tube distortion, flanger, chorus
Full MIDI CC#s mapping (according to the original Little Phatty CC#s specs)

Renoise has announced Renoise 2.5 is available now, for Mac, Windows & Linux.

Renoise is a complete, expandable Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) based on mod trackers. Mod trackers are characterized by displaying and editing music in a grid known as a pattern. These patterns are akin to sheet music, but are displayed alphanumerically instead of with musical notation.

New features in Renoise 2.5 include:

• Pattern Matrix: A birds eye view and editor of the song
• Cross Track Routing for “Meta Devices” and new devices like the “Signal Follower”, which allows you to sidechain other tracks parameters
• Plugin Grabber: Render Plugin Instruments to Renoise Instruments, Samples
• Vastly Improved MIDI Mapping
• A Bunch of New Internal Effects
• The user manual has been rewritten from scratch.

Renoise is 58 Euro (currently about $80). A free demo version is available now for Linux, Mac & Windows.

Gotharman’s Note Randomizer is a new MIDI effect that you can use to add random variations to MIDI.

When it receives note data, it takes a look at the adjustable probability parameter, and the velocity value. If Velo to Prob is other than zero, it randomly decides if it will play that note or not.

If it decides to play the note, it will have a look at the adjustable random velocity parameter, and if this is higher than zero, it will randomize the note velocity value with the adjusted amount.

Gotharman says “This effect is very useful for creating variations in otherwise repeating patterns.”

It retails for 199 Euro.

Prime Loops is giving away 500 MB of free audio loops and samples:

As a big ‘Thank You’ to all of our fans and subscribers we are giving away this exclusive pack of free audio loops, samples and multi patches, and the best part? They are all 100% Royalty Free!

But hurry! This collection is only downloadable for a limited period of time! Inside you will find a genre-busting selection of over 500Mb of high-quality loops from from both up-coming and new releases such as NYC Piano Sessions, Dubstep Nation, Ghetto House Grooves, Orchestral Scores and many more!

Stromkult reports that the Leploop compact analog synthesizer + groovebox is now available for 599 Euro.

Just how tiny is the Leploop?

Synth Structure:
osc1 wave squ. and tri.
osc2 wave saw.
osc1 can modulate osc2
2 AD envelope
2 vca
1 lpf diode ladder filter with cutoff and res. cv control
kick drum generator + distortion/overdrive
noise generator
1 lfo
1 s/h
1 mixer
4 gate sequencer kick / S&H / env1 / env2
1 16 step capacitor sequencer, the S/H sample the lfo for imput the note in the seq.
Different menu for clock div., step, groove, record, save and recall track.
midi in
cv in\out

Nord has announced a new collection of the original Chamberlin tape library sounds in the Nord Sample Library format.

These 60 sounds compliment the previously released Mellotron sound library and are available free of charge for all Nord Wave and Nord Electro 3 users.

The Chamberlin is a vintage electro-mechanical keyboard instrument related to the Mellotron.

It was developed by inventor Harry Chamberlin from 1949 to 1956, when the first model was introduced. Various models and versions of these Chamberlin music instruments exist.

The analog Chamberlin master tapes have been transferred to the digital domain using state-of the art recording equipment, in a 44.1 kHz, 24-bits resolution. All the sounds have been edited and carefully looped – when applicable – using the Nord Sample Editor. Unlooped versions are planned, also.

AudioSpillage has announced DrumSpillage, a new drum synth plug-in for Mac OS X.

Description:

Inspired by early analog and digital drum machines but expanding massively on the original blue print DrumSpillage is equipped with a refreshing, unique and modern feature set designed for today’s electronic musicians and producers.

Release date is set for 15th March 2010. See the AudioSpillage site for details.

Features:

• 13 exclusive drum synthesis algorithms
• 16 part multitimbral, 64 note polyphony
• Pad based real-time control surface
• Fast slider based GUI
• Future proof model driven architecture
• Flexible modulation options
• Full MIDI key mapping and pad layering
• Dynamic velocity accent control
• Extensive editing capabilities
• 9 mono/stereo outputs
• High resolution 64-bit DSP engine

Spectrasonics has released an update to their Trilian and Omnisphere software synthesizers, version 1.2.

The updates are free to registered users.

Features Of Version 1.2:

64-bit native support with Mac OSX 64-bit hosts
32-bit Sample File Server – offers more memory access in 32-bit systems (Mac only)
New Browser “Favorites” system with star ratings
“Projects” quick tagging for easy sound organization
New “Juicy” and “Power” synthesizer filter algorithms
Triplets and Dotted values in Arpeggiator
Compatibility and support improvements
[Omnisphere] Support for “Omni Live” remote control iPhone App (Mac only)
Other Changes:

[Trilian] Additional “Open” Multis (optimized for standard playing without mutes) – for the Chapman Stick, Clean Fender, Rock P-Bass Pick and Retro 60’s Electric Basses
[Trilian] Complete Enhanced Trilogy Synth Patch Library
[Omnisphere] 215 New Omnisphere patches! (v1.2 Factory library = 7,106 total sounds)
Revised 1.2 edition of Trilian / Omnisphere Reference Guide
New and Improved Filter Preset Library
Over 50 New Arpeggiator Presets
Various fixes and improvements

Smider Noise has released version 1.8 of Noiseplug, a free modular synth for OS X, designed for “sound design and digital noise music.”

Features:

drum-machine
granular reverb
spectral delay
planet filter
convolution modules
and much more…