| I have been at Musikmesse Frankfurt this year to see what's new in music software and also had the chance to talk to developers to find out what's planned in the near future. April 2006 - Frankfurt International Music Fair part 1 - Steinberg, Apple, Image Line part 2 - Vienna Instruments, Sienzo DMM part 3 - Celemony, Arturia part 4 - PG Music, Native Instruments part 5 - Matrox, Make Music, Sibelius PG Music I met Peter Gannon, the head of PG music, maker and inventor of Band-in-a-box an his companion and friend Marty Green, to talk a bit about Band-in-a-box. Since quite some time, I wish to see the functionality of BIAB implemented in the top notch sequencers, but this just doesn't seem to happen.
Marty also told me another interesting detail
about how the styles are made. Most of the styles are unquantized and played by
good musicians via several controllers from keyboard to guitar. They are played
until the feeling is right and not much tweaked afterwards. This little software has evolved over the years
into a source of inspiration and knowledge for any serious songwriter. It is
also great for teaching the basics of music. I just hope it finds it's way into
my favorite sequencer / recording program. Native Instruments Probably the most important mission of Native Instruments at the Musikmesse Frankfurt was the introduction of a revolution- or better evolutionary software called "Kore".
It is a basically a shell for all plug-ins no matter which standard. Kore gives these plug-ins and virtual instruments a common database for their presets, a common hardware controller and a standardized automation.
Well that's much more than we ever expected to get. It seems to work and if you ask me, this will be "the" hit application of the next months to come. It gives you all the control and touch&feel that you never really had about your virtual instruments and plug-ins and a common database that you can search by intelligent keywords is also fun to use.
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Steinberg, Apple, Image Line |
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