The last batch of samples are now being recorded… there are over 500 individual instruments now sitting on our hard drive array! The next step will be individual tweaking of the instruments to make sure the loops are all neat and proper, and then some technical fiddling, and then we can start getting Kontakt presets and multis sorted out. (We can’t wait for that stage – it’s going to be huge fun combining and stacking some of these sounds. Fairlight…
We’ve got ourselves a little intermittent glitch that’s causing some orders to ‘hang’ and not complete, which means some folks are buying things and then not receiving a download link until Mongo notices, rolls his sleeves up, and sends the order out manually. Sorry about this: we’re working to find out what exactly is causing the problem – something to do with PayPal, it would seem, but it’s a bit unclear what. Meanwhile, if you buy from us and don’t…
Some really exciting developments on the Emulator II front! We mentioned a while ago that we were intending to create a really comprehensive library of classic EII sounds; something that covered all those go-to patches of 80s music, plus orchestral patches, synths, drums, percussion… the works. Think Tears for Fears, Thomas Dolby, Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis… The thing is, most of the stand-out tracks you remember used sounds that weren’t part of the factory pack. The…
If you were even a tiny bit appalled at what Mongo and I did to the poor DX7, it’s time to exhale and rest easy. Don’t tell the guys on YouTube (because the comments are really, really funny) but no working DX7s were harmed in the making of the video. If you look closely (it’s a bit blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, but the clues are there), you’ll see that the working DX7 we show at the start is a DX7IID. The DX7 that…
Everyone likes vintage. Guitarists have been able to buy vintage for several years now, thanks to the likes of Fender’s Custom Shop, which adds relic and vintage to new guitars (for a price). Well, why should synth players be left out of this cool new trend? In our new infowebcast, we show you how to get that vintage into your shiny new synth. Soon you can be sporting a gigged-out mojo monster like your keyboard heroes! Take a look here,…
Just thought you’d like to see where we’re going with the rear panel. This is finalised now, but you’ll see we’ve got a delay and a rotary speaker in there, which is always nice 🙂
As the keen-eyed among you will already know, about a year ago we scored an amazing Emulator II and a huge stack of 5.25″ floppies. We’ve been hard at work ever since, transforming floppies into Kontakt instruments, and the late nights are finally starting to pay off. We’ve now got over a hundred Emulator II patches converted to Kontakt format, plus a finalised GUI that you can see here: What we’d like to know now is how much further to…
The subject line kind of says it all, really. We want your comments on the instruments you’ve bought, so anyone who posts a comment or a mini-review (nice or otherwise… we’re very fair) will get an exclusive freeware Kontakt instrument some time in the next month or so (ie, when Mongo’s finished coding it). To add a comment: go to the product page for the instrument you’ve bought; click on the “Reviews” tab just below the main product image, and type…
If anyone’s interested in exactly what goes on behind the blastproof doors of the laboratory, there’s an interview just posted by the nice guys over at Bedroom Producers Blog telling the awful truth about life, love and Kontakt instruments. Well, Kontakt instruments, anyway. It’s a cool site, so say hi when you’re there 🙂
You may have gathered from the mailshot, but our latest Kontakt monstrosity, Uproar, has hit the ground 🙂 Expect seriously weird and unusual sounds from this bolted-together collection of distortion circuits. We’re nearly done on 102200, too, so watch this space…
We promised a little sale extension to make up for all the irritating outages and confusions that plagued the weekend, so… you can keep using your MONGOMADNESS coupon until midnight on Monday. At that point, though, it will expire and turn into a pumpkin and some very peeved rats, so get your impulse buying done before then 😀 New instruments very soon now. Uproar is finished and we’re just rolling the factory patches for it; 102200 is being bolted together…
Hurrah. We fixed it. You can now buy stuff, look at your cart, and check out as normal – everything works again 🙂 Apologies once more for the roller-coaster: we prefer recapping old synths to the intricacies of ecommerce solutions. But with luck, it should be plain sailing from now on. Factoid of the day: did you know it should really be ‘plane sailing’ and not ‘plain sailing’? If you’re navigating a sailing ship, you should really plot your course…