The Ambient Music Blog

MusicRow, specialist in Arturia’s Synths soundbanks (they did banks for the MiniMoog, for the Modular and for the ARP2600), just released a new one for the Prophet :

The Heavenly Prophecy presents 200 extraordinary sounds for your Arturia Prophet V. This soundset takes the Prophet 5 and the Prophet VS to new extremes!

The Heavenly Prophecy is focused on delivering inspiring up-to-date sounds with the special Prophet flavor. The crystal leads will shine, the stab sounds will drill holes in your heart, and the fabulous mystic pads will make you cry. This is our prophecy!

A demo bank with 20 free presets is available for instant download.

Give it a go, as well as the others, for each bank you can download sample sounds…

If you’ve missed it, like me, please have a check because the KVR 2007 developer challenge results are in !

That makes a good 41 audio plugins / applications to download and test.

The winner is Xoxos for his “Sounds of Nature” a collection of VSTi for emulating common natural sounds (wind, rain, thunder, songbirds and insects), a very good one for your Ambient tracks.

I’ve just discovered DSK VSTi’s instruments recently, and there is a lot of good synths to download over there, some of them being more targeted to our preferred music: Ambient !

I specificaly recommend you:

• The Odisea (2 Osc, 5 waveforms, Octave select and micro-detuner, Amp. envelope, Filter, easy programming, Midi automation, Preset selector)
• The DreamZ (Experimental additive synths, LFO (osc controlled), 3 LFO assignables to cutoff, resonance, pan, sync…)

A few hours of playing and testing ahead !