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Studio Instruments

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Studio Instruments
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Studio Instruments by Cakewalk is a Virtual Instrument Audio Plugin for macOS and Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin and an Audio Units Plugin.
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Cakewalk Studio Instruments is a dual platform Virtual Instrument collection providing a high quality Drum Kit, Bass Guitar, Electric Piano, and String Section.

With Studio Instruments, Cakewalk introduces a virtual instrument collection that is accessible to anyone, not just musicians, through its photo-realistic, animated, and interactive user interface. With point and click ease and professionally recorded patterns, Studio Instruments delivers a simple and fun way for all to make music. Cakewalk Studio Instruments is driven by Expression Engine, the same technology found in Cakewalk's professional line of instruments, including Dimension Pro.

Studio Instruments' feature animated, photo-realistic user interfaces, and each instrument present a true interactive music making experience: just click on a cymbal, and see and hear it crash. Each instrument accurately replicates the sound of its real-world counterpart and features simple control over the most essential functions of the instrument.

In addition, Studio Instruments includes a comprehensive collection of pre-recorded patterns and presets providing a creative jump-start to making music. These patterns can be placed on multiple pads that the user simply clicks to trigger sections of their songs. Cakewalk Studio Instruments also allow the user to play the individual sounds of each instrument from their computer keyboard - if you can type, you can now play drums, piano, bass, or electric piano. More advanced users can easily control Cakewalk Studio Instruments with a MIDI keyboard or other MIDI controller. Each Studio Instrument also features customized companion effects to enhance their sounds.

Drum Kit:

  • Load multiple Drum sound programs and play pre-recorded drum grooves in a variety of styles.
  • Includes patterns in a variety of styles: Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Funk, and more.
  • Drag patterns into your recording software to make variations.
  • Use your MIDI controller, computer keyboard, or mouse to play Drums.
  • Drums pulse and cymbals crash in time with the music.
  • Use built-in compression and reverb to get edgy and realistic sounds.
  • Control tuning, panning, and volume for infinite variety.
  • Load and trigger multiple grooves for different sections of your song.

Bass Guitar:

  • Load presets for multiple electric bass sounds from classic to modern.
  • Play essential bass lines in a variety of styles and easily transpose them to the key of your song.
  • Includes patterns in a variety of styles: Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Funk, and more.
  • You can also drag patterns into your recording software to make variations.
  • Get bass sounds ranging from aggressive to smooth with control over Bass, Mid, Treble, Drive, and Compression.
  • Select Pick-ups and Slide between notes for even more realistic sounds.
  • Use your MIDI controller, computer keyboard, or interactive fretboard to play.
  • Strings strum in time with the music.
  • Load and trigger multiple bass lines for different sections of your song.

Electric Piano:

  • Load presets for multiple electric keyboard sounds from classic to modern.
  • Play pre-recorded keyboard chord changes and lines in a variety of styles and easily transpose them to the key of your song.
  • Includes patterns in a variety of styles: Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Funk, and more.
  • You can also drag patterns into your recording software to make variations.
  • Get awesome tones with special effects like Drive, Chorus, and Tremolo.
  • Use your MIDI controller, computer keyboard, or click interactive keys to play Keys play in time with the music.
  • Load and trigger multiple keyboard parts for different sections of your song.

Strings:

  • Load presets for multiple string section sounds ranging from lush and ambient to orchestral and cinematic. Play commonly used string section parts in a variety of styles—easily transpose them to the key of your song.
  • Includes patterns in a variety of styles: Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Funk, and more.
  • You can also drag patterns into your recording software to make variations.
  • Use your MIDI controller, computer keyboard, or click interactive keys to play.
  • Bass, Cello, and Violin are bowed in time to the music.
  • Control the nuances of your string sounds with control over Attack, Release, Chorus, and Reverb for the string section, plus pan and tone for each individual instrument.
  • Load and trigger multiple string section parts for different sections of your song.

Latest User Reviews

Average user rating of 4.00 from 1 review
Studio Instruments

Reviewed By rich_h [all]
September 17th, 2007
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows

Cheap and cheerful, these four plug-ins do exactly what it says on the tin, no more no less. None of them are going to set the world alight with excitement, but they are usable tools.

The strings are quite realistic, consisting of violin, cello and double bass. I think it would have been nice to have a viola in there too. The sound can be thickened up with the built-in chorus and reverb.

The bass guitar has a nice throaty initial attack, but does seem to loop pretty soon after, although it is only really noticeable in isolation.

The electric piano in it's raw uneffected form is pleasant if unremarkable. The release is a bit too sudden for my liking, unless you use the sustain pedal. However, bringing in the overdrive and chorus make for a decent sounding instrument.

The drum kit is usable, looking at the config files which are in SFZ format it appears that the snare alternates between two different samples each hit, as do the hi-hats. Despite not having very many velocity layers, this makes for a realistic sounding kit. The built-in compressor can help to beef up the sound, too.

An interesting is the animated user interfaces - play a violin and the violin moves, play a snare and the snare drum vibrates etc. Not the most useful feature in the world, but mildly diverting.

Not much by way of manuals, but it doesn't need much by way of manuals!

Bearing in mind the cost (40 pounds in the UK) this is an excellent set of plugs for the skint beginner.
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Starship Krupa
Starship Krupa
11 November 2020 at 1:24am

Although this bundle is listed as "No longer available," that is not strictly true. It's available for free as part of the Cakewalk by BandLab DAW.

To get it, download and install the BandLab Assistant, install Cakewalk, then the Studio Instruments will be available as a separate download.

Once you install them, they will work just fine in any DAW that supports VSTi's.

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