Most people knew that Camel Audio's superb Alchemy sampler was purchased by Apple earlier in the year. But now it's for real, and as Create Digital Music says, "this is officially Alchemy 2.0". There are better filters, better morphing, more presets, a 14GB sample library, and it's even more effecient! Create Digitial Music goes on to say "All in all, this is pretty huge – the biggest synth news to come to Logic in years."

All Chicken Systems products have supported NATIVE Alchemy format (.acp) for a long time. Translator converts INTO Alchemy and out of it. It's not just SFZ support (just another Alchemy import format), we support the entire "deep parameter manipulation" feature set. This includes the filters, the key-controller switching, round robin, and more. Constructor™ can build your own Alchemy instruments for use in Logic too.

Take full advantage of Apple's new FREE Alchemy sampler with Chicken Systems!

Innovation reigns supreme, and lot's of little specialty samplers are appearing in recent years. Check out TAL Software's new TAL-Sampler. According to the web site:

"TAL-Sampler is not just a sample player. It's a full featured analog modeled synthesizer... don't expect a 40GB piano sample library... it's possible to choose between different digital analog converters (DAC's) to get the vintage sound of different hardware samplers inside your DAW. We don't make cheap bit crushing or decimation on the output signal. We really down-sample the sample to the desired sampling frequency, then process the data depending on the chosen DAC and up-sample it to the desired pitch."

TAL-Sampler also supports playing sample formats OGG, MP3, and FLAC, all of which Translator supports. Translator 6, Constructor, and other Chicken Systems products will be supporting this sampler so it'll be easier to get your instruments in TAL-Sampler to have fun with.

A couple weeks ago we reported on some new SCSI Memory card solutions. We ahve some new findings, mostly concerning Ensoniq-compatibility and also some new SCSI2SD information (thanks Graham!) Click here for the article...

Everyone uses keyboard workstations to gig, and our new "Creator" line of products enable you to get your sampled instruments into them. They include Korg Creator, Fantom Creator, Fusion Creator, and Kurzweil Creator. They are still under beta but available with a pre-release version selling at 50% off. This sale price with exist until the final release of the products, which will occur imminently. Read more...

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