Toontrack Superior 2.1Апдейт к известной виртуальной ударной установке от Toontrack. Появилась возможность создания комбинированных пресетов. Очень удобная штука.
Offline bouncing overhaul (see chapter 5 for details):
- New option to not include all bleed and bounce only using the currently used samples
- Option to Bounce through the Mixer, including effects
- Independent Master bounce volume and overload display and Mixer bounce volume
- Progress message board showing what mic is currently bounced
- The bounce process can be aborted
- New clearer nomenclature for the names of the bounced files
- New setting to Keep intermediate files
New Mixer implementation (see paragraph 4.1 for details):
- New Bus send layout
- Soloing Mics and Busses work recursively so as to allow the sound to reach the Outputs
- Pre and Post Effect send facility for both Mics and Busses
- Drag and Drop for Inserts and Sends
- New Outputs and Busses nomenclature to mirror many hosts
New presets handling (see paragraph 3.6 for details on Combined presets):
- Combined presets for loading/saving Instruments and Mixer Channels properties selectively
- Possibility to load saved files (.S20) as Combined presets
- Load/Save of Instrument groups for most preset types
- New Envelope Curve preset allowing to copy settings to groups of Instruments
Edrum experience improvement (see chapter 6 for details):
- New factory MIDI presets, including pedal correction curves (hatsCtrl only MIDI presets)
- Various bugfixes and improvements to the transmute, mainly in AMB mics and faded drums
- Change to Distribution Groups, improving CC-hihats
Other Changes:
- Superior1 libraries renamed S1 - Cocktail, S1 - Drummer and S1 - Percussionist
- Reorganized layout for the S1 Drummer factory presets
- Clicking on an anchor point in the Envelope curve is enough to update the display
- When Felt Mallets is selected the Bottom Wire Snares is deselected
- Preview in Studio window accepts mouse wheel to control articulation choice
- New savefile format that contains the new sub-presets found in the Combined presets
- Improved handling of memory limit exceeded during a bounce
- improved Mic auto-assignment for the X-drums
- X-drums should look like more similar to what they do in their own sound library
Bugfixes
- Typing keys that are out of bound as notes (G#8 or above) is no longer possible
- Mic assignment for the X-drums now shows MixName instead of Name
- Mics that are stereo out but not stereo in will no longer receive a silent right channel when bounced
- Bleed/usage/phase controls should no longer change more than the left side for stereo channels that dont have their sounds as stereo files
- The split selection is reset when changing Sound Library
- Channel pressure is now part of bounce
- Fixed a bounce bug, that after a bounce left the sampler in the state where sounds are loaded in the rendering thread instead of the demon thread
- Local Machine directory created with full access rights on Mac
- Better tolerance for non-ASCII characters in paths on MAC
- In S1-Drummer, crash22 in Ride4 and Ride5 internal names are now unique
- Pressing Load when editing bleed in Cached mode now works better
- Fixed bug in code that removes a trailing Sounds from an input sound path
- Fading a non-close mic, early in the mixer, no longer leads to malfunction of the transmute for the other mics
- A negative Offset (envelope) along with pitching no longer leads to pops, crackles and crashes
- Soloing something before applying a preset or a savefile for the same Sound Library no longer leads to issues
- Solo and Mute in the Classic View are now updated when a control or Humanize preset is applied
- Fixed bug that caused crash when selecting a drum without a Close mic with EzMixer follows Selection active
- Fixed the bug that caused newly assigned X-drum MIDI notes to not be written in presets or savefiles
- All the X-samplers are reset when X Pads are reset, fixes the crashes when changing Vol2 factory presets
- Effects are now reset when the host asks the sampler to go mute. This should avoid clicks
- Possible bugfix for crashes while changing playing drums on a multi-core machine
- Auth key comparison failure in some cases fixed
Exploring Superior Drummer 2.1 - Part1Exploring Superior Drummer 2.1 - Part2http://www.toontrack.com/news.asp?id=147Toontrack Superior 2 New York Studios Vol.2 (Expansion)Новый пакет расширений для Superior Drummer 2.0. New York Studios - Volume 2 является собранием барабанных сэмплов, записанных в двух известных студиях в Нью-Йорке, Hit Factory и Allaire Studios.
В записи принимал непосредственное участие Nir Z (Genesis, John Mayer, Joss Stone и Chris Cornell). Саунд инженером выступил Pat Thrall (Glenn Hughes, Black Crowes, Beyonce), который продюсировал в свое время Kiss, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits и Sting.
Сэмплы записывались на нескольких винтажных барабанах, типа Ludwig snare 1930-х годов и 1940-х годов Black Beauty snare, а также несколько томов Ludwig 1960-ых годов, так же инструменты Gretsch, Slingerland, Sabian и Rogers.
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