Cakewalk / z3ta+

For those of you in electronic music on the PC:

RGC:audio, the creator of the fine microtonal-capable softsynth z3ta+ (among other products), are now partners with Cakewalk, who will market and sell z3ta+, their flagship synth. Rene, the main engineer, has also created new instruments for distribution within Cakewalk products.

I mention this mainly because the z3ta+ was one of the first softsynths available with microtonal (and Scala) support, is extraordinarily stable, and now will be reaching a wide audience. Not only does this have the potential for others discovering microtonality, but there will be a lot more people developing patches for the instrument.

I'm going to try to see if the new instruments done for Project 5 and Sonar also included alternate tuning schemes; there is also a new version of CronoX coming out from LinPlug that looks really, really deep.

Cheers,
Jon

Jon and all,

And the good news for Linux users is that Wine, the Windows emulator for
Linux, has developed to such a strong point that this, and many, many other
VST plugins apparently work without a hitch now in Linux; and one can use the
excellent Rosegarden sequencer, or even my midiplay Python script, if things
were routed correctly, to drive it.

See this page for more info:
http://djcj.org/LAU/ladspavst/

Best,
Aaron.

On Saturday 09 April 2005 11:25 am, Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:
> For those of you in electronic music on the PC:
>
> RGC:audio, the creator of the fine microtonal-capable softsynth z3ta+
> (among other products), are now partners with Cakewalk, who will market and
> sell z3ta+, their flagship synth. Rene, the main engineer, has also created
> new instruments for distribution within Cakewalk products.
>
> I mention this mainly because the z3ta+ was one of the first softsynths
> available with microtonal (and Scala) support, is extraordinarily stable,
> and now will be reaching a wide audience. Not only does this have the
> potential for others discovering microtonality, but there will be a lot
> more people developing patches for the instrument.
>
> I'm going to try to see if the new instruments done for Project 5 and Sonar
> also included alternate tuning schemes; there is also a new version of
> CronoX coming out from LinPlug that looks really, really deep.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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This is really great, Jon, as I've mentioned to you privately. Lets
just hope all the existing microtonal functionality will be
maintained... I guess there is no reason to assume it will *not*

best,

Joe

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Jonathan M. Szanto"
<JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> For those of you in electronic music on the PC:
>
> RGC:audio, the creator of the fine microtonal-capable softsynth
z3ta+
> (among other products), are now partners with Cakewalk, who will
market and
> sell z3ta+, their flagship synth. Rene, the main engineer, has
also created
> new instruments for distribution within Cakewalk products.
>
> I mention this mainly because the z3ta+ was one of the first
softsynths
> available with microtonal (and Scala) support, is extraordinarily
stable,
> and now will be reaching a wide audience. Not only does this have
the
> potential for others discovering microtonality, but there will be
a lot
> more people developing patches for the instrument.
>
> I'm going to try to see if the new instruments done for Project 5
and Sonar
> also included alternate tuning schemes; there is also a new
version of
> CronoX coming out from LinPlug that looks really, really deep.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon