Jazz & Big Band 3 is now shipping!

The third version of the world´s most popular jazz and big band sample library has just arrived at Time+Space!

Garritan Jazz & Big Band 3 is now powered by the ARIA Instrument Engine and adds new features, new instrument sounds and updated programming at a lower price.

Jazz & Big Band 3 features trumpets, trombones, comprehensive 16 Saxophones collection, winds, keyboards, basses, rhythm section – over 50 individual instruments. Create realistic-sounding Jazz & Big Band arrangements quickly and easily.

Jazz & Big Band has become the industry standard winning numerous prestigious industry awards including Electronic Musician´s ´Editor´s Choice Award, Sound on Sound ´5 Star´ award, and Music Tech Magazine´s ´Recommended´ award.

RRP: £99.00 / €119.00 + free UK shipping until 8th July 2010

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VSL celebrates 10 years with lower prices and new bundles!

As Vienna Symphonic Library celebrates 10 years of innovation and passion the highly reputed virtual instrument developer has made several new announcements including product discounts across the range and new bundles at incredible prices.

Most DVD collections, including both Standard and Extended Libraries have now been lowered with standard libraries such as Brass I, Brass II and Chamber Strings I having been reduced by as much as £90.00. What’s more, the Symphonic Cube Full Library, which used to cost £7,855, is now only £5,080 – that’s a price drop of £2,775 – more than a third of the original price tag!

The announcement also sees the introduction of new bundles such as the Solo Strings and Woodwinds Bundles with prices being lowered even more!

VSL have also released details of their forthcoming next generation sample player – Vienna Instruments Pro. Packed with new capabilities that further expand the power of Vienna Instruments including enhanced matrix function, new controller types for articulation switching, patch rack features, enhanced filter controls, patch control features, keyboard display, time stretching and more, the new release will not only make your creative work easier but also add human behaviour to your music.

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Chris Hein Horn series is complete!

“The musical content and execution are second to none — add some classy reverb, and these horns will shine!” – Sound on Sound

Chris Hein has delivered exceptional virtual instruments over the years and this latest release – Chris Hein Horns 4: More Brass & Woodwinds – completes the Horns series.

Featuring flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, tuba, cimbasso and alphorn, each has approximately 2,000 samples covering 18 different playing techniques. The unique user interface incorporates 72 control features in 11 different edit pages allowing you to customize any aspect of sound shaping and playability.

RRP: £399 / €399

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The release of this new title subsequently brings a new version of Chris Heins Horns Complete which now includes all four Horns libraries for just £899/€899, (would normally be £1596 if bought separately).

With 54 extremely detailed solo instruments and 32 sections, Chris Hein Horns Complete is the largest available Brass and Woodwind library for Jazz, Pop, Funk & Big-Band. With its large sections and high dynamic sound, CHH also works great to spice up your orchestral productions. For an extremly low bundle price for CHH-Complete you get aprox. 80,000 samples and 44GB content.

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Loopmasters release whole host of new download packs!

Loopmasters have injected an abundance of genres into their download catalogue this week with several new releases…

African Rhythms (Wave Alchemy) – Captures the sound of Senegal, Africa with 130+ percussion loops and ensembles.

Fidget House 2 – Glitched out, funked up, washed out house beats and heavy hoovered, sidechained and warped basslines.

Tidy Trax Hard Dance & Trance – Beats, bleeps, basses and club ready musical loops for Hard Dance and Trance pioneers.

Danny Thompson Bass Samples – Exquisite and versatile bass loops and samples featuring Danny´s inimitable playing style and sound.

The Rogue Element: Twisted Electro – Twisted funk, electro, breaks and minimal eccentricity from one of the leading lights of the dance scene.

Meat Katie: Tech Funk Producer – A fantastic collection of dance floor ready grooves and melodies for the Tech Funk production elite!

RRP: from £8.95 / €10.95 (Download only)

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50% off selected Best Service virtual instruments!

Still seeking Christmas gift inspiration or looking for a new virtual instrument to keep you busy during the festive holidays? Best Service have made things that little bit easier with a 50% discount across many of their titles until 4th January 2010.

The offer applies to the following products:

Convolution Space
Drums Overkill
Ethno World Professional 4
Xsample Chamber Ensemble
Galaxy Steinway II
Chris Hein Horns Vol 1.5
Chris Hein Horns Vol 2
Chris Hein Bass
Chris Hein Guitars

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DONT FORGET! There’s free worldwide shipping on all orders over £75 until Christmas Eve. Just select the ‘FREE WORLDWIDE’ shipping option when you checkout.

From Guitars to Horns, Hip Hop to Country – Big Fish release four new titles

California-based sample giants, Big Fish Audio have released four new sample libraries covering a wide selection of musical tastes…

Funk Soul Horns delivers over a thousand classic, funky and soulful horn licks recorded from a 6-piece horn section (2 trumpets, trombone, alto sax, tenor sax, and bari sax) in 24-bit quality sound. What´s more, there´s individual instrument tracks for every one of those licks plus over seven hundred additional trumpet, trombone, alto, tenor, and bari sax solos.

Nashville Sessions features electric and acoustic guitars, drums, bass, pedal steel, fiddle, mandolin, and more in the form of 22 big construction kits plus over 140 extra loops and licks. These kits cover traditional and current Country and Western styles plus the most popularly-used Country and Western rhythms and chord progressions.

Studio Guitars: The Michael Ripoll Project If you´re looking for guitar loops and licks for rock, pop, blues, funk, country or jazz this collection trumps all other guitar libraries. The product has many different kits of guitar loops in many different styles and each kit has a large variety of loops that all work great together or individually. You´ll find electric and acoustic guitars, leads and rhythm parts, as well as intros, fills, choruses, verses and everything in between.

Platinum Essentials 3 Back with more hits, the king of west coast Hip Hop Keith Clizark presents 40 construction kits fully broken down for your production needs. This is pure authentic west coast flavor at its best – drums, bass, piano, synth, guitar, strings, percussion and more… all put together by the west coast mastermind himself.

RRP: £64.95 / €74.95 each

Win 1 of 10 copies of Garritan Personal Orchestra 4!

Garritan Personal Orchestra allows users to create lush symphonic music with over 150 orchestral instruments including delicious strings, intimate woodwinds, joyous brass, powerful percussion, a Steinway virtual piano, a glorious concert organ, heavenly harps and more.

Version 4, which is packed with a multitude of new features, has just arrived at Time+Space and to celebrate we have ten copies to give away!

To enter, all you need to do is send us the answer to a very simple question.

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World Impacts: Global Percussion is now shipping!

Get ready for a perfect storm of ethnic, world, and cinematic percussion. Featuring a massive collection of varied percussion samples, World Impact spans the globe featuring percussion instruments from large to small, west to east, north to south, and traditional to rare.

Sampled in meticulous detail and programmed for maximum and instant musical usability, the collection includes hundreds of varied percussion instruments from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and more.

As well as boasting an impressive array of features, World Impacts also features a massive 4.2-gigabyte collection of Japanese Taiko drums recorded from multiple microphone positions.

RRP: £259.00

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Experience the soul and musicality of the Grand Piano Collection

Grand Piano Collection features some of the best sounding sampled pianos in the market. A good sounding piano is a rare alchemy between the instrument, the acoustic in the recording studio, the microphones and above all, the engineer´s taste.

Grand Piano Collection highlights five wonderful instruments:

Steinway D Concert Grand
Fazioli F278 Concert
Erard Baby Grand Piano
Seiler Upright Grand
Japanese Upright

For each piano, USB selected a different set up to give different colours for every one of the five instruments. And thanks to UVI Engine´s advanced keygroup layers and rule switching, the sustain pedal and release samples perform and “feel” like a real piano.

The result is five excellent sounding pianos, with soul and a musicality.

RRP: £209.00

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New Accordion, Dance and Urban titles from Best Service…

German developers Best Service have had a busy 2009 which has seen some great reviews for many of their new titles not to mention the release of the massive TITAN back in August. Their range of titles continue to expand with the release of three new libraries…

Accordions
Produced by Eduardo Tarilonte, Accordions is the definitive accordion sample library. Designed and scripted to perform in real time ultra-realistic accordion melodies and chords. All the subtle sounds from an accordion have been carefully captured to increase the realism of your performance, like key and button noises.

8 different Accordions where sampled in high detail, being one of them a real A-A (Alfred Arnold) Bandoneon from the 1930´s with an incredible tone. Just the same model Astor Piazzolla used. Also included are 8 perfectly balanced Multis with meticulously made combinations to create new ready to use registers.

RRP: £129.00

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Production Tools Vol 2
35 Production Tool Kits including single samples (drums/ sounds), drum and instrument loops, multi formatted instruments/ synth presets and midi files! Complete with arranged song ideas and sounds ready to go for your new productions. All Wav files are available as Apple Loops and Rex Files too, so that you can select your own tempo.

Each kit contains multisampled instruments/ presets ranging from lead, bass or pads, sfx to enable full realization of your ideas. With over 5 GB of content available you are able to create those ideas imagined using high quality audio material!

RRP: £74.95

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Black Pearl
Black Pearl is the sample collection for the Hip Hop, R´n´B or Media producer looking for that modern original sound of today’s urban music.

This sound library contains 35 construction kits (63bpm to 120bpm) inspired by the hottest urban producers like Timbaland, Kanye West, Swiss Beatz, Darkchild, Danjahandz and Polow Da Don. The sound content includes bangin’ drum loops, monster kicks, hard hittin’ snares, fresh claps, crunchy snaps, ethnic percussion, hihats, cymbals, shakers, synth and electric basses, keyboards, pianos, electric pianos, orchestral instruments, string ensembles, brass ensembles, hits, acoustic and electric guitars, new age instruments, bells, arpeggios, synths and modulated synths, morphing atmospheres, leads, noises and special fx-sounds.

RRP: £74.95

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