The wait is over! It is here! MetaSynth 5.0! Welcome back to the power of pixels! U&I Software announced today the immediate availability of MetaSynth 5.0, the next generation, fully Leopard compatible version of its award-winning sound design suite. Galbanum has worked with U&I intimately over the years, and to celebrate the release of 5.0, is offering an exclusive new-user bundle package including all of it's MetaSynth related products at a substantial discount.
It began in Africa. Dr. TR-Analog is your guide on this safari through the jungles and grasslands of the ancient-future world of Found-Sound. Poly-rhythmic perturbations and nano-organic chaos constructs channel the spirit of the Mbira, invoke the antediluvian rites of the witch-doctor trance ceremony, and supplant these venerable visions with post-modern urban reincarnations. Transmuted ethnomusicology and club-ready analog grooves interbreed and spawn a new synthesis of composite contrarian bliss, where modern talking drums recite soliloquies that compete with Shakespeare in their metaphorical eloquence.
2CAudio announces the immediate availability of Aether 1.0. Aether is an ultimate fidelity Auto Randomizing Algorithmic Reverb Software plugin available in Windows VST, OSX VST, and OSX Audio Unit formats. We believe it is one of the best sounding reverbs on the market. 2CAudio is a new sister company of Galbanum founded by Andrew Souter, and Denis Malygin. Galbanum will continue to develop content libraries and sound-design tools, and 2CAudio will be dedicated to software and plugin development. 2CAudio will focus on spatial processing, advanced creative effects, and other future-forward ideas.
There is harmony in household appliances, there is rhythm in rhubarb, and there is melody in machinery! Embrace the strangely natural and naturally strange. "Abstraction 03: Found Sound Club Edition" is an eclectic all-you-can-eat buffet of domestic "found sound" purposefully polished, refined, and formated into rhythmic loop adders which are designed to spice up your percussive pallet and inject freshness into your grooves. It's a cornucopia of pseudo organic glitch grooves and real-world sampled eccentricism where any household sound - from the hand saw, to the power drill, to literally the kitchen sink - is fair game as a substitution for a normal drum machine.
Shock-and-awe sultans of swing and scrappy subterranean sunset soldiers seeking stupendous sound sorcery, stop searching and simply submit to superior scholarly skill. Subjugate silence, snub scant and slender sonance, secede from slanderously simple sensations, and suppress scandalously spineless sonics with Second Coming!
Proud Cakewalk progenitors in pursuit of permanently proliferating Rapture's prodigious pad pallet, please prepare to be positively perplexed by powerful potential and perpetual possibility. Plug-and-play purveyors, pick-a-preset princes, and paladin purists, pick up the pace and promptly proceed to purchase Piscis!
Modern music production is highly dependent on technical sound-design elements to infuse novelty and uniqueness into the music of today and tomorrow. Abstraction 02 focuses on edgy electronic loop adders, glitched-out synthetic drum phrases, abstract rhythmic freak-outs, deep and techy percussion hits, fresh momentum builders...
Abstraction 01 MS is a premium format of Galbanum's Abstraction 01 loop collection for use in U&I Software's MetaSynth 4.0. In addition to reproducing all of the bleeding-edge Abstraction 01 content in MetaSynth native formats, the MS version also offers an additional 200 new loops and grants access to exclusive power tools to transform and mutate new custom loops...
Abstraction 01 focuses on unconventional atonal loop-adders, rhythmic textures, glitched-out underground sounds, and unusual percussion hits which are designed to be mixed with conventional music elements to synergistically co-create tomorrow's post-modern platinum grooves...
Architecture Waveforms Cakewalk Edition, is a collection of over 2,500 meticulously designed wavetables provided in standard .Wav sample format for use in Cakewalk Rapture, Cakewalk Dimension Pro and other supported synths and samplers. The collection offers vast expansion of available timbre pallet for wavetable synths...
Architecture ABS Waveforms 2, is a collection of over 1,800 meticulously designed wavetables provided in Native Instruments Absynth (GLY) format. Wavetables are single cycle periodic waveforms that form the most fundamental building block of synthesis...
Architecture Volume One is a vast resource library for U&I Software's Metasynth, winner of the 2006 Electronic Musician Editor's Choice Award for best sound-design software. It contains over 10,000 audio samples, graphic files, and high level presets...
We are pleased to announce our Sample Line products are now distributed by Big Fish Audio in US. Big Fish Audio will distribute both download as well as physical versions of Galbanum products as they become available. We are honored to begin a new relationship with the US leader in content libraries.
2CAudio's Aether has just won the "Redaktionstipp" Award from Musician's Life, DE. This is the German equivalent of an Editor's Choice award. The review is very thorough and highly recommended to all German native speakers. We are not real sure what it says, but it must be good! When we asked what the award meant, we were told "it means You should buy it!"
2CAudio's Aether plug-in has just won the Editor's Choice Award, the Performance Award, and has been awarded a 10/10 review score from Computer Music Magazine, UK! Two down, two to go! The review is available in the July 2009 edition. CM is also hosting 2CAudio & Galbanum give-away contest in the August edition, and an interview with Andrew Souter in the September edition.
Galbanum has licensed sample content to Native Instruments for the latest member of the NI product family: Maschine. Maschine is an industry leading software drum machine combined with integrated hardware controller. We are always happy to work with industry leaders such as NI, and honored to be a part of a product such as Maschine.
Galbanum has entered into a distribution partnership with the UK sample production and distribution company Loopmasters. Galbanum Sample Line products are now available for digital download through the newly revamped Loopmasters webstore.
The German Magazine Beat has awarded Galbanum two Editor's Choice awards one for Abstraction 02 in the 2008-09 edition, and a second for Piscis awarded in the upcoming 2008-12 edition. Thank you Beat! We hope and strive to win many more!
Galbanum founder Andrew Souter had the honor and privilege to work on Invol2ver with Sasha and team over the last year. Souter contributed "additional sound-design" parts to the project using many of the same tools which are used to produce Galbanum products. The new album has already peaked at number one on the Itunes dance music chart!
Galbanum has licensed wavetables to UK virtual instrument and effects developer Camel Audio for their new product Alchemy. Alchemy strives to be the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer. It's a synth powerhouse and yet is very easy to use thanks to its performance controls and remix pads.
Galbanum has once again partnered with Cakewalk to co-market and distribute its Rapture Expansion products. Piscis is available now at the Cakewalk webstore and the Second Coming will arrive shortly. Cakewalk has also been distributing Galbanum's Architecture Waveforms CE product for some time.
Galbanum founder Andrew Souter co-composed, produced, mixed, and performed sound-design for the Discovery Channel's HD Theatre high-definition channel launch ad campaign. We have just leaned this campaign has won a 2008 Promax award which is the highest accolade in the advertising world.
Galbanum has licensed wavetables to Irish upstart, Future Audio Workshop, for its new and innovative product Circle. Circle makes great use of the Galbanum waveforms and is an exciting new product which takes an intuitive and visual path to sound design. It is a powerful and easy to use synth.
Galbanum has licensed wavetables to Native Instruments for the award-winning Massive product. Massive is NI's current flagship synth, and offers a huge number of innovative features. We are very honored to begin a licensing relationship with the world leader of software instruments.
Galbanum founder Andrew Souter has joined the Native Instruments sound design team beginning with the Absynth 4 product launch. Souter will now contribute his skills to the factory banks of newly developed NI products as they become available.
Galbanum begins a sponsorship partnership with Remix Hotel where Andrew Souter will demonstrate U&I Software's MetaSynth and Galbanum's Architecture Volume One products. We hope to evangelize the world with the power of pixels!
