Global Collection

This Plugsound provides a realistic and contemporary world sound library designed to substitute to the cheesy GM players, both software and hardware. The global collection faithfully follows the GM standard for sound classification. The acoustic and electric piano category is first, followed by Pitched Percussions, Organs, Guitars, Basses, Strings, Ensemble Sounds, Brass, Reeds, Pipes… The collection then moves on to Synth Leads, Pads and Composites, followed by Ethnic, Percussive and Sound Effect categories. Volume 6 then offers another 128 presets consisting of light versions of the original 128 GM presets. Finally, 7 GM drum kits are supplied, followed by 7 light versions. Volume 6 is not a best-of the Plugsound collection: it only includes a handful of common presets. It features unique samples.

Features

The plug-in: Identical in every volume of the series, the Plug-in is a sample-playback virtual instrument powered by the powerful UVI-Engine. Plugsound provides you with essential and useful synthesis tools: resonant filters, Amplitude and Filter envelopes (ADSR type); LFO, the most realistic mono-legato you’ve heard on a virtual synth, Reverb’ module...

The sound library: Each volume comes with a “data file” full of multisampled presets that are easily accessed through the interface of the plug-in. There is enough space to offer the most in-depth exploration of a given instrument that a tone module has ever done. It evens beats most professional CDROM, limited by archaic formatting conventions which leave only 200-300 megabytes per disc… No mess on your hard drive, just those two files.

Plugsound formats: Each Plugsound is available for Mac OS X (Audio Units, MAS, VST, RTAS), for Mac OS9 (VST, MAS, RTAS) and for Windows (XP recommended) based PC (VSTi, DXi, RTAS):

MachFive integration: You can use Plugsound in a multitimbral plug-in, and enjoy dozens of exciting editing features: Three fully featured envelopes, a distortion module, new filter algorithms, syncable LFOs and dozens of great effects…

Integrating one of these instruments is easy: open MachFive and create a new empty soundbank. Now go to the corresponding folder on your hard disk and place an alias of your Plugsound’s “.dat file” in the soundbank folder you've created. That’s it! Rescan your MachFive Sounds Folder and you’re now ready to use your instrument directly in MachFive.

Each volume is supplied on a CDROM with printed manual and sound listings, plus multi-language PDF manuals & tutorials.

Purchase Information

Plugsound Vol. 06 Global Collection is now available at a suggested retail price of $99 for Mac OS X and Windows systems. Education Version is also available at a retail price of $59.

Requirements

• Windows 98/ME/2000/NT/XP - Pentium III 400MHz - 256 MB RAM - VST 2.0, Dxi, RTAS PC compliant hostMac OS 8-9/ OS X  - 400 Mhz PowerPC G3 - MAS, RTAS, Audio Units or VST 2.0 compliant host