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Coming Late Spring 2009: Mindstock MATRIX24™
We're very pleased to announce our latest product launch, called MINDSTOCK® MATRIX24™ — a massively multi-sampled sound library encompassing the best of the venerable and highly prized Oberheim Matrix 12 analog synthesizer keyboard. Featuring long-tail samples — multi-layered, and capturing every key — for the ultimate recreation of the soundscapes found only in this classic synth.

Classic factory pre-sets used on many famous commercial albums of the 1980s, as well as never before heard sounds — massive 24 oscillator multimode dreamscapes — will give you a true Analog Synth Replacement Instrument™ (ASRI™) for the Oberheim Matrix and Xpander family; only from Mindstock.

Available on multi-disk DVD or single-disc Blu-ray formats, this 15GB+ sound package will be offered in several flavors for today's most popular software instruments, as well as a stand-alone version for live and studio performance. A lighter, highly affordable LE version will be available for download, and a free version with several example sounds will be available to registered members (sign up for our new members area will be free). Optional versions will include sound sets optimized for NI Kontakt, Cakewalk Dimension Pro, Wusikstation, UVI, E-Mu Proteus X2/X3 (and OpenLabs MiKo/NeKo). An EastWest "Play" instrument version will appear in 2010 once EW releases the composition tools to build compatible soundsets.

• Look for more information and preview starting in January 2009.
 

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Custom sound sets for the Akai® MPC-3000
10th anniversary re-issue! Our Mindstock® MPC3K™ series sound sets may be ordered securely online on CD, flash media, or download (or e-mail depending on file size); Iomega ZIP 250 Disk by special order is also available. These professionally programmed sample sets provide inspirational tools for making music, and bring new life to your MPC!

We've been "MPC-heads" since the launch of the original Linn-9000, the progenitor of the MPC-60, MPC-60II and MPC-3000 models invented by Roger Linn. Often mis-labeled as beat boxes used exclusively by '90s hip-hop artists, the MPC series has been (and is) used by many contemporary artists like Alicia Keys (a keyboard player), as well as rock and electronica producers and musicians.

The original three MPC3K sounds sets produced in 1998 have been pulled from our archives and re-issued for 2009. Evven today in the era of gigantic ROMpler instruments, these kits provide a wealth of custom sounds and programs at an affordable price — fully programmed and customized for the MPC-3000. With a very few exceptions, all of our sounds are 44Khz stereo or mono so they will import into the MPC-2000 just fine. No two sounds are named the same, and no sounds are duplicated in ANY set so you can build up a library of our sound sets on a SCSI device connected to your MPC (or on your computer).

All sound sets include programs (.PGM) which are pre-configured for dynamics, panning, volume and tunings. These are not "raw" sounds or samples you have to muck with to sound right. Just load and go! All sound sets include several demo sequences to give you a quick "show off" of the possibilities of the sound set.
» Learn more about MPC3K™ [click here]
 

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"Seven Deadly Synths" live and in person.
Coming Late Summer 2009. A labor of love by sound designer Christopher Simmons, and inspired by a magazine article in Electronic Musician magazine ("Seven Deadly Synths" by Geary Yelton, Sep. 2003), this highly unique DeadlySeven™ sound library and standalone instrument brings together the best of seven remarkable instruments. Sampled extensively in single modes, mixed modes, layered modes, and morphing modes, combining the best of all seven synthesizers, there has never been a modern sound library like this one.

True creative inspiration is provided by the unique character of each instrument, which then becomes even more unique when combined with another: imagine the Hartmann Neuron's dark and sinister soundscapes layered with the analog and wavetable sound of the Jomox SunSyn — truly, these are sounds never heard before and lovingly sampled in extreme detail to put you "right there" in hearing these highly sought after analog and digital flavors.

Synthesizers included in DeadlySeven™:
• Access Virus (KC and Ti)
• Hartmann Neuron (keyboard)
• Jomox SunSyn
• Novation Supernova II PRO-X
• Roland V-Synth XT
• Studio Electronics Omega 8 (upgraded to CODE 8 OD)
• Waldorf Q+ (ruby red; original not "Phoenix")

Contains approximately 22GB of samples on three DVDs, and will be available in standalone instrument form, as well as versions optimized for NI Kontakt, Cakewalk Dimension Pro, Wusikstation, UVI, E-Mu Proteus X2/X3 (and OpenLabs MiKo/NeKo). An EastWest "Play" instrument version will appear in 2010 once EW releases the composition tools to build compatible applications. Sound sets of individual instruments will also be available later in 2009.

Thanks to the extensive synth collection of Christopher Simmons, the Mindstock® DeadlySeven™ instrument brings over $20,000 worth of the best analog and digital instruments of the past decade together for the first time so that any musician can afford to "play with the big boys." (And, of course, a "tip of the hat" to Geary Yelton.)

• Look for more information and preview starting in March 2009.