NAMM: WNAMM10: impOSCar 2 Video Demo

via Sonic State

NAMM: WNAMM10: The Optitron Has Arrived!

via Sonic State

NEW TRACK PREVIEW

YouTube via feelda303
"new track I'm working on... made it on the headphones with no mastering, so the quality may suck...
all synths are ohmforce minimonsta"

Rudess goes to planet Ohm!

YouTube via JCRUDESS
"I visited the mysterious creative boys of Ohm Force in Paris yesterday. They make really amazing plug ins!!"
http://www.ohmforce.com
Ohn Force are the coders behind GForce Software's [formerly GMedia] Minimonsta and Oddity.
via The Ohm Side of the Moon

Club Music Production Workshop Folge 6 Teil 1

YouTube via musotalk
"Dominik de Leon demonstriert die Benutzung von Synthesizer-Plugins (Analog Factory, MiniMonsta, Oddity und Largo)."

Club Music Production Folge 6 Teil 2

Mini Monsta Demo

YouTube via Agreenwizard
"Demo/Tutorial Minimonsta plug-in by spiralsnake"

Minimosnta VideoPresentation_001

YouTube via Agreenwizard. via the Ohm Force Blog

Question on GMedia and Ohm Force

Anyone know which GMedia products if any were not done in conjunction with Ohm Force? I just added an Ohm Force label and want to remove it from any Gmedia products/posts they were not involved in to prevent any confusion.

Alesis Andromeda A6 vs. GMedia / GForce Minimonster

via sequencer.de
I'll do my best at translating the German :)

The following can be heard:
1) sequence with a filter-Env-Sweep
2) bass with manual filter-Env-modulation
3) polyphonic chords with LFO sweep
4) FM filter demonstration
5) Bass sequence
6) lead-melody
7) resonant filter sweep with resonance
8) Polyphonic 80ies chord sequence
9) Osc FM demonstration

The sequence is always the same: First, Andromeda, followed by MiniMonsta.

MP3 here

Testing the newly restored CS & OB 8 Voice

Sonicstate.TV by GForce TV
"# Having just got these machines back from the repairman it was time to give them a test and see how they sat alongside software.. The chord is from the forthcoming impOSCar 2 but the CS-60 does the Ring Mod lead and the 8 Voice OB makes the floor shake.
# Link www.gforcesoftware.com"

a little performance... see description...

YouTube via feelda303. Access Virus TI Polar, Ableton, Gmedia Minimonster Minimoog VA, Roland V-Synth.
"i'm doing a little performance... sorry for bad sound - it's been recorded with my camcorder's microphone..."

Broken Sails by Khoral

"It was essentially done with the Prophet 08 as main instrument... if you listen to tracks 1 or 4, for instance, that's pretty much the fantastic synth from Dave Smith Instruments all the way through...
Save for that... well, whenever you hear bass, that's the Moog Little Phatty...
The strings on "The Fortune Song" are Gforce Virtual String Machine and there's some Roland Alpha Juno-1 as well on the instrumental parts for this track.
The opening chords on "Empty the Boat" are Korg Wavestation."

You can find more info including the full album download link on khoral's Cafe 80.

Virtual String Machine Review and Samples on Cafe 80

See the full review with samples on khoral's Cafe 80.
snip:
"The VSM is a sample-based software synthesizer from Gforce Software, recreating those beloved old-fashioned string machines from the 70’s and early 80’s (pictured below, the Eminent 310, which famously provided the atmospheric strings of Oxygène and Equinoxe).

It is sample-based, in that the VSM don’t emulate these instruments from scratch, but starts with recordings, which you can then retune, pan and modify with filters (lowpass, highpass and bandpass) and LFO."

Also be sure to check out the demos section on the official Gforce site.


List of users from the Gforce site for the archives:
"Essential String Machine
* Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene (Eminent 310 [pictured]), Equinoxe (Elka Rhapsody)
* Duran Duran: Rio (Crumar Multiman)
* John Foxx: Metamatic (Elka Rhapsody)
* Beck: Midnight Vultures (Opus 3)
* Morrisey: You are the Quarry (Opus 3)
* Jeff Wayne: War Of The Worlds (Freeman String Symphonizer)
* David Bowie: Sound & Vision (ARP Omni)
* Roy Ayres: My Life in the Sunshine (Solina)
* Herbie Hancock: Chameleon (Solina)
* Steve Hackett: Spectral Mornings (Logan String Melody), Voyage of the Acolyte (Elka Rhapsody)
* Genesis: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album (Elka Rhapsody layered with Mellotron®)
* Air: Moon Safari album (Solina)
* Ultravox: Vienna (Elka Rhapsody & Yamaha SS-30), Artificial Life - (Elka Rhapsody)
* Lonnie Liston Smith: Expansions (Solina)
* Gary Wright: Dreamweaver (Solina)
* Goldfrapp: Number One (Roland RS505)
* Vangelis: Heaven & Hell (Elka Rhapsody)
* Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart (ARP Omni)
* New Order: Blue Monday (ARP Omni)
* The Cure: In Between Days (Solina)
* Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Solina)
* Kraftwerk: Trans Europe Express (ARP Omni)"

NAMM: WNAMM09: ImpOSCar 2 Full Demo

via Sonic State

NAMM: WNAMM09: Muse Announce The Muse Box

see the write-up and comments on Sonic State.

Be sure to see Sonic State's NAMM coverage for more including a glimpse at GMedia's ImpOSCar 2.

GForce Webcast 2008

"GForce Webcast 2008

It’s been a busy year as usual culminating in the release of the M-Tron Pro in late October and no sooner had people started taking delivery of the instrument, the tracks started to arrive here at GForce HQ.

Once again we were uber-impressed at both the high quality and wide variety of musical styles cascading out of our speakers and within weeks we had so many good ‘uns we realized we had enough for another webcast.

So welcome to what seems to be an annual event for us, highlighting and broadcasting the pick of the bunch. Also, as this is a reflective time of year, we’ve compiled a small pdf document giving you some inside info as to what went on in 2008 along with some of our favorite images of the last 12 months.

GForce 2008 Retrospective

We’ll see you in 2009 but in the interim best wishes to everyone who’s both helped and inspired us during 2008.

Have a great Holiday

Dave, Chris and the entire GForce team."

You can find the webcast with track listing and instruments used here.

Les Fradkin - Lift Off

YouTube via lfradkin. via fischek
"Les Fradkin, from the Original Cast of Beatlemania, presents "Lift Off" from his "One Link Between Them" CD.

This album has received wide acclaim in publications such as Keyboard Magazine and across the Internet.

Les, who is classically trained, is moving at Hyper speed. In this video, he's playing the Starr Labs Ztar MIDI Guitar in a Neo Classical Shred meets Bach influenced style on his own composition.

The Ztar can be strummed with string triggers or tapped with one or both hands as seen in this video.

The main lead sound is the Arturia Moog Modular V and the Logic ES2. Background sounds are from an M-Tron, Roland XV-5080 and Arturia Soft Synths. The sounds at the intro are made with Propellerhead Reason.

Take a Journey To The Stars!

MIDI Guitar.... as you've never seen it before!

Visit the Les Fradkin Official Website"

GForce M-Tron Pro

"The M-Tron Pro virtual instrument is a remarkable emulation of the classic Mellotron — the unique tape playback keyboard made famous by such luminaries as The Beatles, Yes, Led Zeppelin and The Moody Blues.

The 3.5GB sound library features over 200 tape banks (sample sets) including those from the M-Tron, 19 of which have been remastered at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios resulting in a warmth of tone surpassing the originals.

M-Tron Pro also delivers 45 brand-new tape banks and over 700 patches, many created by world-class recording artists and programmers. Utilise the patches or open the lid to access G:sampler’s easy editing controls for layers, splits, reverse, halfspeed and much more. It can be used in standalone mode (Mac/PC) or as a plug-in for most popular host applications.
A Virtual Classic... and Beyond
Dating back to the pre-digital 1960s, the Mellotron was one of the first sample-based keyboards. Artists such as The Moody Blues, Yes, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Genesis and later OMD, Radiohead and Oasis have used them to emulate strings, choirs and other orchestral instruments, while the BBC used them extensively for sound effects.

When pressed, each key engaged playback of a discrete strip of tape containing an eight-second recording of that note played on an instrument such as a violin. The tape rewound after key release. The lack of looping forced the player to adapt his playing style giving the instrument a unique playing characteristic in addition to its already distinct sound. The more commercial models featured the ability to switch between three different sound sets within the installed tape bank — and adventurous owners were able to physically swap tape banks with care and patience.

We first paid homage to this venerable keyboard with the M-Tron. Now M-Tron Pro goes far beyond — and is as much a labor of love as the Mellotron itself. As well as the aforementioned Abbey Road remasters, we're also supplying over 40 of the tape banks looped.

More Under the Hood
Lift the lid of the M-Tron Pro and you’ll discover a whole new set of easy yet powerful editing controls that take the Tron experience way beyond what the original inventors ever imagined.

Set up your own splits and layers, apply vintage ensemble and delay effects, and sculpt your sound with low-pass, band-pass and high-pass resonant filters. And that’s just the beginning. You’ll find tape reverse, tape half-speed and a slew of synth-type parameters—making the M-Tron Pro a remarkable source for unique signature sounds far beyond the basic tape banks sounds themselves.

Programmable MIDI CC control implementation with MIDI Learn lets you control it all from your MIDI controller and there’s dynamic keyboard control including filter aftertouch.
Standalone or Host Operation
You can use the M-Tron Pro by itself or as a plug-in for most popular host applications including Live, Cubase, Logic, GarageBand, SONAR, Digital Performer, ACID and Pro Tools|HD®, Pro Tools LE® and Pro Tools M-Powered™ software.

Compatible formats include VST 2.4 (Mac/PC including VSTi), RTAS® (Mac/PC), MAS (Mac) and Audio Units (Mac). In other words, it’s easy to integrate M-Tron Pro with the rest of your studio and use it just about any way you want."

Be sure to see this overview video by Sonic State.

Sonic LAB: GForce M-Tron Pro

YouTube via sonicstate
"A first look at this new virtual instrument from GForce Software. Based on the M-Tron it ads the newly developed synth engine from their Virtual String Machine to add deep filter and effects

more reviews at Sonicstate.com"

using iPhone to control a VSTi plugin synth

using iPhone to control a VSTi plugin synth
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