sidsonic libraries has announced the release of Tubes!, a one-of-a-kind Kontakt Player-powered virtual instrument featuring the raw but caressing sound only tube circuits can provide. Far beyond guitar amplifiers and such, Tubes! digs deep into the matter of tube sound, featuring whole synthesizers and complex effects, all built with the glowing little fellows.
- 100% tube sound.
- 135 Sounds; over 10,000 samples in total; 24 Bit / 96 kHz; 16.3 GB.
- Powered by Native Instruments Kontakt 3 Engine (Kontakt Player).
- 36 page booklet.
Instrument modules: Filter assortment:
- First filter: 2-pole Lowpass, 4-pole Lowpass, Pro53 Lowpass, Ladder Lowpass, Voweler.
- Second filter: 2-pole Bandpass, 2-pole Highpass, 4-pole Highpass, Voweler.
- Insert-FX: Cabinet, (Pre-)Amp, Rotator and Stereo Modeller.
- Send-FX: Phaser/Flanger, Chorus and Delay.
- Two AHDSR envelopes with up to five targets (Volume, Tune, Cutoff 1 and 2, Resonance).
- Two LFOs (free/sync) with six waveforms and up to five targets (Volume, Tune, Panorama, Cutoff 1 and 2, Resonance).
Pricing & Availability
As it is powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player, Tubes! is available for Windows and Mac OS X in stand-alone and VST, AU and RTAS instrument plug-in formats. It costs €189.
Demo sounds, videos, photos and lots of other material is available here.