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KEYSCAPE™ is an extraordinary new virtual instrument featuring the largest selection of collector keyboards in the world. From “holy grail” pianos to stunning keyboards you didn’t even know existed, this is a keyboardist’s dream come true. Ten years in the making, each of these sought-after keyboards was carefully restored and then deeply multisampled by the renowned Spectrasonics Sound Development Team. These compelling and highly expressive sounds will inspire you to PLAY! Keyscape is equally useful in the studio for producers and composers. Since these instruments can be easily transformed into amazing “unreal” sounds with the powerful STEAM Engine® under the hood, Keyscape easily turns these coveted instruments from History into innovative new sounds of the Future. Specifications:Huge library with over 500 “Best-in-class” sounds, 36 Instrument Models and Hybrid “Duo” PatchesDeeply Multisampled sounds with up to 32-way velocity switching, Round Robins, etc.Mechanical Noise, Pedal Noise and Release Noise behavior modelingPatches feature authentic circuit modeled amplifiers and effectsAvailable as Download (77 GB) or Boxed USB Drives EditionOptional “Lite” installation (30 GB) for stage useFull Omnisphere® 2 integration

With its comprehensive design, Trilian brings many different types of Bass together into one extraordinary-sounding virtual instrument. Trilian is designed from the ground up to be the most versatile bass virtual instrument available today with a new level of expressive, real-time performance for acoustic and electric basses – plus cutting-edge synth bass tones with powerful editing and extraordinary sound quality. Trilian is the successor to Spectrasonics’ award-winning Trilogy bass instrument, offering deeper control of musical expression and much greater flexibility of sound shaping. Trilian’s 34GB library is 10-times the size of Trilogy and features all new acoustic, electric and synth basses. Powered by next generation STEAM Engine technology, Trilian is the first instrument to feature core library integration with Spectrasonics flagship Omnisphere® synth – allowing Trilian’s sounds to be used within the Omnisphere environment for further sound design and keyboard/bass splits. “At Spectrasonics, we’ve always loved Bass sounds.” notes Eric Persing, Founder and Creative Director. “When we started 15 years ago, our very first product was the best-selling Bass Legends sample library. Then in 2002, we introduced Trilogy – the world’s first Bass Virtual Instrument. Now we are very pleased to release Trilian, which represents a whole new generation of our Bass development. Trilian is built on the STEAM Engine that powers Omnisphere, which has allowed us to create the most expressive and flexible Bass module we’ve ever made.” PERFORMANCE The new acoustic and electric basses in Trilian are sampled at an extremely high level of detail. The combination of the software’s intuitive, automatic selection of legato and release articulations as the user plays - and the extensive ‘Round-Robin’ variations introduced for natural sounding bass lines with repeated notes - create a more dynamic and subtle playing experience. Newly developed multisampled dynamic slides let notes realistically slide from one to another. Each of the new basses feature multi-channel mixing between phase-locked microphone/amplifier and direct outputs of each bass. BASS INSTRUMENTS Over sixty different 4, 5, 6 and 8 string Electric basses are presented in fingered, picked, fretless, slapped, tapped, and muted technique variations – providing a huge variety of sounds for any musical genre. Highlights of the new Electric Basses include a Music Man™ 5-string Studio Bass, Chapman Stick®, Lakland™ Rock P-Bass, Clean Fender® Jazz Bass, a Hardcore Rock Bass, a Retro 1960’s Epiphone® Viola Bass and much more. Trilian’s stunning new Acoustic Bass is the most detailed instrument Spectrasonics has ever released, with 4 audio channels and over 21,000 samples to create this single instrument! All this combined with Trilian’s high-resolution streaming of the sounds puts a depth of realism into performances that is truly inspiring. SOUND CREATION For Synth sounds, Trilian features newly-developed 4-Pole “Juicy” and “Power” Filter algorithms with oscillating resonance that are ideal for electronic bass. Hundreds of synth soundsources were created using over 30 of the most exotic and coveted hardware synthesizers – from the original Moog® Taurus Pedals to the latest boutique analog modular synthesizers. A multitude of extremely powerful editing controls are available for sound design – including the “FlexMod” modulation system, Dual Filters with more than 19 filter types, 6 multistage looping envelopes, 6 full-featured LFOs, dual morphing modulation, modulatable FX racks and much more. Trilian’s FX racks include all of the renowned FX processors from Omnisphere and Stylus RMX – including a wide variety of amp and speaker models, distortions, dynamics processors, equalizers, chorus, phasers, flangers, delays, reverbs, unique specialty FX and more. LEGACY As Spectrasonics' next-generation bass instrument, Trilian includes enhanced, remastered versions of Trilogy’s core library – taking it to a new level of sound and expression. As a special bonus, Spectrasonics’ original “Bass Legends” multisamples have also been remastered and included in the Trilian library, featuring Marcus Miller, John Patitucci, and Abraham Laboriel (bass sounds which some hardware synth users may remember from popular Roland Xpansion boards and the classic MBD-1 rack bass module). INTEGRATION Trilian is the first virtual instrument to feature core library integration with Spectrasonics award-winning, flagship Omnisphere synthesizer. Trilian’s complete sound library can be opened within Omnisphere for further synthesis and expanded performance possibilities. Trilian’s Arpeggiator features the “Groove Lock” technology Spectrasonics pioneered in Omnisphere and Stylus RMX’s Time Designer – which means that with a simple drag and drop action, the feel of bass patterns created with Trilian’s Arpeggiator can be perfectly synchronized between all three of Spectrasonics instruments. INTERFACE The new Custom Controls interface on the Main page of each patch brings out the most useful and interesting sound modification controls for that specific patch, and a single control can even modify numerous parameters to create unique FX. The Custom Controls are all MIDI Learnable, Automatable and users can create their own configurations of Custom Controls. COMPATIBILITY Trilian is cross-platform compatible with Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4.9 and higher as a native Universal Binary for Intel-Macs and Macintosh G5, and also with Microsoft Windows 7/Vista and XP SP2 and later. 32-bit Audio Units, VST, and RTAS plug-in formats are supported for compatibility with all major host software.

Retro Funk. Live Vintage Drum Grooves Awesome Live Acoustic Drum & Percussion Grooves Authentic Vintage Sound, Feel & Style Multiple world-class Drummers, Studios and Engineers Newly developed Multi patches take full advantage of new S.A.G.E.™ (Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine) technology with multitrack grooves which show the full potential of Retro Funk with Stylus RMX. Essential Styles that work across the whole musical spectrum Transitional Song Construction Elements and Fills Ultra-Wide Sonic Variety Unprecedented Control with SAGE based Groove Control Special Bonus Section includes grooves from Bizarre Guitar, Vocal Planet, Distorted Reality and more!Killer variety and groove factor from the same team of talent behind BackBeat. Presented in the same song construction format as BackBeat, but with a dryer and more classic sound. Very versatile in many styles (not only Funk and Soul) and works incredible well with the Stylus RMX Chaos Designer! Intros, Fills, Fill Bars, Breakdowns and separate Claps, Cymbals & live percussion loops too!The featured players include: Gregg Bissonette (Santana, Joe Satriani, Don Henley) Bob Wilson (Liquid Grooves, George Benson, The Crusaders) John Ferraro (Larry Carlton, David Benoit, Albert Lee, Aaron Neville) Eric Boseman (Liquid Grooves, James Newton-Howard) If you're a fan of classic live drumming like BackBeat... Retrofunk is the essential companion!Review Quotes: " This is a release that deals in sheer quality. Top LA session drummers focusing on laid-back and super-cool funk drumming...more than enough authentically '70s drumming sounds and styles to keep retro-heads happy. Provides all the flavor and spirit of retro soul/funk while at the same time fusing it with a 'must-sample' sound quality and an infectiously musical groove. There is a fantastically wide range of drum sounds used in the grooves...amazingly tight and powerful funk-rock kit sounds that would give even hard rockers a run for their money...Ultimately, Retrofunk's flair, precision, musicianship and sheer usefulness certainly rate it as one of the best drumming discs. -Sound on Sound 5 Star review For more SAGE Xpanders check out Backbeat, Burning Grooves, Liquid Grooves and Metamorphosis!

BackBeat Live Studio Drum Grooves. Awesome Live Acoustic Drum Grooves . Authentic Feel and Hi-Fi Sound. Multiple world-class Drummers, Studios and Engineers Newly developed Multi patches take full advantage of new S.A.G.E.™ (Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine) technology with multitrack grooves which show the full potential of BackBeat with Stylus RMX. Essential Styles for Rock and Pop production Transitional Song Construction Elements and Fills Ultra-Wide Sonic Variety Unprecedented Control with SAGE-based Groove Control™ Special Bonus Section includes grooves from Bizarre Guitar, Vocal Planet, Distorted Reality and more!Live drumming at its purest with astounding flexibility. Four world-class drummers contributed their vast talents in some of the most famous recording studios in the world. The result is a state-of-the-art,"super Hi-Fi" sound that adds a whole new dimension to what Stylus RMX can do. The featured players include: Gregg Bissonette (Santana, Joe Satriani, Don Henley) Bob Wilson (Liquid Grooves, George Benson, The Crusaders) John Ferraro (Larry Carlton, David Benoit, Albert Lee, Aaron Neville) Eric Boseman (Liquid Grooves, James Newton-Howard) Dont miss this this best-selling Xpander if you're looking for inspiring "straight-ahead" drum grooves that aren't overplayed!

Burning Grooves. Live Hardcore Drum Grooves Maximum Impact Live Drum Grooves Aggressive Sound, Feel & Style Featuring Abe Laboriel Jr! Newly developed Multi patches take full advantage of new S.A.G.E.™ (Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine) technology with multitrack grooves which show the full potential of Burning Grooves with Stylus RMX. High Energy Styles that work across a wide musical spectrum No Kick and No Snare versions Large quantity of diverse grooves Rare Tom-Tom and Sidestick grooves! Different time signature grooves (3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 12/8) Brand-New "Acoustic Groove Elements" category! Unprecedented Control with SAGE based Groove Control Special Bonus Section includes grooves from Bizarre Guitar, Vocal Planet, Distorted Reality and more!Blazing live drum grooves with extreme remixes by producer Eric Persing. A diverse selection of unrelenting alternative, power funk, progressive soul, rock & roll and grungehead loops in a wide variety of tempos and different time signatures puts this collection in a class by itself. Featuring legendary drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. (Paul McCartney, Sting, Seal, Chris Isaak, Steve Vai, k.d.lang, Jeff Beck, Joe Sample, Scritti Politti) If you're looking for attitude, search no further. Where there's smoke, there's fire! Review Quotes: "A slammin' combination of loops....Sizzling cymbals and punchy drums are the name of the game...not just natural sounds...I would definitely use these grooves not only because the playing is good, but because I like the modern sound design....top honors for providing one new mix after another...killer beats throughout...Rock-solid playing...Excellent." - KEYBOARD magazine 5 star review "Discs like Burning Grooves have raised the standard of drumming CDs so highly that in order to make their mark these days drumming CDs have to offer more than just expert solo drum performances...The quality of both the playing and recording is first class...the rhythms are straight 'on-the-money', and very usable...they sound extremely natural with an impressive degree of dynamic responsiveness." - SOUND ON SOUND review"The collection will appeal to just about anyone who is looking to add a live drum loop to a track, the extra processing that the collection has undergone adds an extra element of interest, but without drifting too far from the core theme. Thoroughly recommended." - Sounduser.com website review

Liquid Grooves. Unique Acoustic Remix Grooves One-of-a-kind Acoustic Drum & Percussion Grooves Highly Creative Sound, Feel & Style Ethnic grooves with unique processing Newly developed Multi patches take full advantage of new S.A.G.E.™ (Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine) technology with multitrack grooves which show the full potential of Liquid Grooves with Stylus RMX. Korg Wavedrum grooves and Remixes Useful Styles that work across the whole musical spectrum Multitrack style elements ideal for remixing Unprecedented Control with SAGE-based Groove Control Special Bonus Section includes grooves from Bizarre Guitar, Vocal Planet, Distorted Reality and more!Quite possibly the most versatile Xpander ever! The critically-acclaimed Liquid Grooves with SAGE technology provides an endless amount of possibilities that will be inspiring for years to come. Fluid rhythms forged by a synthesis propelling live drum grooves, unusual, organic live percussion loops and unique ethnic sources. Works extremely well with Chaos Designer! The new Multis have to be heard to be believed!The featured players include: Bob Wilson (Backbeat, George Benson, The Crusaders) Eric Boseman (Backbeat, James Newton-Howard) An inspiring, one-of-a-kind collection from producer Eric Persing. Review Quotes: "Sampling's finest hour....A masterpiece of layering, effecting and processing...a hugely atmospheric feel...the rhythms are musically useful, and virtually all of them spark compositional ideas...all the elements of every full mix and remix are available individually to give the user maximum flexibility...Eric Persing at his creative best.." -5 stars SOUND ON SOUND review "...Truly inspiring...expertly performed and recorded, and the sound quality is uniformly excellent...The basic grooves are very interesting...The heavily effected versions are striking in their attitude and atmosphere. ...producer Eric Persing has outdone himself with creative processing...Although all of the loops start out as acoustic performances, by the time he has finished with the remix variations they're perfect for trip-hop, lo-fi, or acid jazz tracks...good use of the Korg Wavedrum; perfect for the other-worldly vibe of this disc...Musical, grooving, clever ... aw, these loops just plain sound great...played right in the pocket..the recording quality and performances are first-class...If these loops don't inspire you, hang it up." -KEYBOARD magazine (rated Outstanding)"The Groove Control feature really highlights the power of modern samplers and sequencers, all together giving the user a very powerful and flexible tool." -Sounduser.com website review For more SAGE Xpanders check out Retro Funk, Burning Grooves, Backbeat and Metamorphosis!

Metamorphosis. 21st Century Grooves Huge variety of remix elements to explore Useful across a wide musical spectrum Unprecedented Control with SAGE-based Groove Control Newly developed Multi patches take full advantage of new S.A.G.E.™ (Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine) technology with multitrack grooves which show the full potential of Metamorphosis Grooves with Stylus RMX. Special Bonus Section includes grooves from Bizarre Guitar, Vocal Planet, Distorted Reality and more!Extraordinary 21st Century Grooves from acclaimed producer Eric Persing. The award-winning Metamorphosis features a vast array of highly creative remix grooves that defy description. Great for any projects that require cutting edge sound, yet timeless grooves. Mixes very well with the Stylus RMX core library and has a large selection of suites to build your own remixes. Like his famous Distorted Reality series, Metamorphosis is a testament to Persing's inimitable style!Review Quotes:"Persing has done it again... hundreds of remix grooves ranging from airy, pulsing blobs to woofer-wrenching club destroyers. If you're looking for cutting-edge remixology, check out Metamorphosis!" -Harmony Central NAMM "Hot Pick" award"Amazing, description-defying sounds on this bases-loaded, outta-the-park home run collection...scandalously creative sound design...everything from sizzling electronic and ethnic-sounding percussion loops to gut-busting kicks that thump out of the speakers with all the angst of an Outkast cut. The sound quality is top-notch throughout...The loops are not only impressive from a production standpoint, they're incredibly musical and inspirational, which is why we've given Metamorphosis a Key Buy." -Keyboard magazine Key Buy and NAMM "Top 20" product award "We are already TOTALLY digging Metamorphosis!" -Mark Isham (film composer, recording artist) "There's far more here than just a collection of gritty, scratchy old funk rhythms with a slight swing. There's distortion, filtering, extreme effects and synthesized sound — the list of gear used in the creation of the samples extends to two pages of hardware and software. This is not a night out with an HR16 and a Quadraverb! The degree and type of processing varies enormously throughout the library, but at no point are the loops rendered unusable through over-zealous mangling. The loops really groove nicely, while the processing gives them character and depth that would be very hard to find from any other source." -Sound on Sound magazine Five Star review "The important thing about Metamorphosis is that the loops work, they sound fantastic and if used properly, they don't overwhelm. Metamorphosis is another superb effort by the Spectrasonics team that should most certainly be in any electronic composers' creative sound palette." -Sonic Control FIVE STAR review "Absolutely brilliant...I was looking for some loop-based material to make a song backing track more dramatic and interesting. Within 10 minutes of working with 'Metamorphosis', I'd found three or four loops that exactly fitted the bill. After an hour, I'd found so much useable material that my mind was beginning to boggle! I really like the way Eric Persing uses distortion and phasing, but somehow manages to maintain the loop's sonic integrity. The end result is exactly to my taste, powerful without being overpowering, funky without being clichιd. I don't know exactly how he does it, but I do know it would take me weeks to get anywhere near the same effect! My congratulations for making the world of sampling inspirational again." -English keyboard legend Dave Stewart "Awesome...so many great ideas..thanks!" -Robbie Buchanan (producer, keyboardist) "Persing has set the standard for how groove libraries should be done....Inspiring." -Bruce Richardson, Pro-Rec web site For more SAGE Xpanders check out Retro Funk, Burning Grooves, Liquid Grooves and Backbeat!

After many years of development, Spectrasonics is proud to release the brand new flagship virtual instrument Omnisphere. This epic ‘Power Synth’ breaks completely new sonic ground by combining a wide variety of hybrid realtime synthesis techniques, an epic library of remarkable ‘Psychoacoustic’ sounds, and many innovative features that have never been seen before in any hardware or software synthesizer. The new instrument is the first to be based on Spectrasonics newly developed STEAM Engine. “This is truly an Epic project,” said Eric Persing, Founder and Creative Director of Spectrasonics. “We have been working for many, many years; sampling unique sounds, experimenting, specifying the synthesis features and building the STEAM Engine to run it all. It’s been a very exciting process involving our team of software engineers, sound designers, musicians, and graphic artists from all over the world. We’ve been very deliberate in making it easy to use, and yet extremely powerful. Omnisphere is our new flagship synthesizer, and points the way to all our future virtual instruments. We are thrilled to offer a new product that will have a host of expansion capabilities in the future.” Although this new synth is extremely powerful, Omnisphere is designed with a unique user interface containing progressive layers of ‘zooming’ to accommodate the complete range of users - from musicians who just want to be inspired by the sounds and customize them in an easy way, to expert synthesists and the most advanced sound designers. Users can go deeper and deeper into the software and progress in their synthesis knowledge by simply exploring additional levels of sound manipulation options. To make sure that all users get the most out of the new capabilities, Omnisphere includes an extensive set of video tutorials and synthesis lessons taught by the renown Spectrasonics sound design team. Omnisphere offers a host of hybrid synthesis and new control capabilities including Variable Waveshaping DSP synthesis, Granular synthesis, Timbre Shifting, FM, polyphonic Ring Modulation, high-resolution streaming Sample Playback, Harmonia™, Dual Multimode Filter structure, Chaos Envelopes™, an advanced Unison mode, and the innovative Flex-Mod™ modulation routing system - to name a few. The huge core library of Omnisphere is filled with years of creative sampling experiments and thousands of inspiring patches. Spectrasonics has pioneered several brand-new types of sampling for the core library of this instrument, including unique “Psychoacoustic” sounds and soundsources created with a new Composite Morphing Technique (CMT) - which morphs the harmonic characteristics of one instrument to another. As a bonus, a section of the core library is also devoted to representing the best of Spectrasonics award-winning sample libraries. When all of these organic core library soundsources are combined with the synthesis power of the STEAM engine, the sounds become “alive” in a truly dynamic and expressive way. Among the many unique features this new multitimbral synth offers are its flexible arpeggiators with the innovative Groove Lock™ integration with Stylus RMX - allowing the arpeggiator’s pattern to instantly groove with the feel of the RMX drum loop; Live Mode for transitionless patch switching and layering, Stack Mode for powerful performance mapping; and integrated modulatable FX Racks. Omnisphere is also the successor to Spectrasonics’ popular Atmosphere® instrument, and contains enhanced versions of all the classic Atmosphere sounds. However, the brand new core library in Omnisphere is 10-times the size of Atmosphere and features thousands of completely new and different sounds. There is an upgrade for all Atmosphere customers, available from Spectrasonics Techshop. The culmination of many years of development, Omnisphere is an instrument of extraordinary power and versatility. Omnisphere brings many different types of synthesis together into one amazing-sounding instrument that will inspire a lifetime of exploration. Omnisphere is now shipping, and has an MSRP of $499 US and €379 Euro. Omnisphere is cross-platform compatible with Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4 and higher as a native Universal Binary and also with Microsoft Windows XP/Vista. Audio Units, VST, and RTAS plug-in formats are supported for compatibility with all major host software.

Stylus RMX is a completely new groove-based virtual instrument plug-in for Macintosh and Windows. Stylus RMX is the first product to offer the combined power of Groove Control™ with Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine (S.A.G.E.™) technology giving users dramatic new control over groove production and performance. Spectrasonics’ in-house development team created the new instrument from the ground up, with dozens of new features including the ground-breaking Chaos Designer™, a completely redesigned multi-page user interface, a new core library of sounds, all with a focus on realtime groove creation and performance.“Xpandable” Stylus RMX marks Spectrasonics’ first expandable virtual instrument, with a series of five new “S.A.G.E. Xpanders” for Stylus RMX at $99US retail each. Stylus RMX also can be expanded with existing Groove Control CD-ROM libraries and even REX files – which opens the door for musicians to utilize their own audio loops within the powerful S.A.G.E. Environment.Chaos Designer™ Of the many new capabilities in Stylus RMX, possibly the most innovative feature is the Chaos Designer™. With simple controls, the user can introduce musical Chaos into the groove, which allows it to have constantly evolving variations— giving the impression that the audio grooves are improvising. The results can be subtle or extreme by setting the simple to use controls. A Capture feature allows the spontaneous audio chaos patterns to be made into a MIDI file, dragged and dropped into the host sequencer, and played back again for further editing by the user.