GRM Tools is the result of more than 50 years of cutting-edge research and experimentation in Paris, France. In 1948, Pierre Schaeffer coined the term 'musique concrète' to mean music made with recorded sounds. The photo at the left shows Schaeffer with the 'phonogène', a variable-speed tape recorder, in 1952.
The Groupe de Recherches Musicales de l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (GRM) was formed in 1958 by Schaeffer, François Bayle, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari, and others to continue Schaeffer's research in working with recorded sounds ...
Whether you're enhancing a recording in a studio, creating new sound designs, composing jingles or film music, or transforming your sounds in performance, GRM Tools delivers distinctive and astonishing results.
Drumcore: Submersible was founded to make the music creation process easier. We're a group of musicians, composers, engineers and producers. We also happen to be business folks, software engineers, studio managers, product designers and marketing types with backgrounds at Real Networks, Opcode, Apple, Microsoft and other high-tech companies.
DrumCore arose from a basic need to quickly create drum tracks while producing music in a recording studio. The "core" technology and content started as a project within Vulcan, Inc. (www.vulcan.com), Paul G. Allen's multi-faceted parent company.
Initially, it was a search engine designed to manage an extensive collection of loop libraries, solving the real-world needs of those who manage the recording facilities there. Dealing with massive loop libraries on a daily basis was difficult. Some audio files had spotty recording quality and/or performances, and all of them were rather "cryptically" organized. Trying to use both audio loops and MIDI drum sounds made things even harder, as it required multiple products with different interfaces and features. Add to this the laborious task of getting the content into the audio workstation, and you have the ultimate "necessity is the mother of invention" scenario ...
10 amazing drummers
Over 8GB of loops, fills, hits and kits
Loop librarian
Integrated MIDI Drum Module
Beat generation 10 amazing drummers
Over 8GB of loops, fills, hits and kits
Loop librarian
Integrated MIDI Drum Module
Beat generation
DAW integration (ProTools, Logic, Digital Performer and others)
DAW integration (ProTools, Logic, Digital Performer and others)
Synthology: Ivory is the groundbreaking Grand Piano Virtual Instrument featuring 40 Gigabytes of stunning, new samples of Steinway D, Bosendorfer 290 and Yamaha C7 Grand Pianos.
The multi-platform plug-in is powered by Synthogy's custom sample playback and DSP engine which delivers a new level of realism in digital sound creation...
The Italian Grand Expansion Pack
Now available, the First Expansion Pack for Ivory featuring the amazing Italian 10 Foot Concert Grand Piano. This all new sample set installs directly into Ivory, adding a 4th World Class Grand to Ivory's award winning collection of pianos! This exceptional piano is one of the world's greatest and most sought after Concert instruments. Impeccably recorded in the famed Concert Hall at SUNY Purchase, the Italian Grand is rendered in phenomenal detail by Synthogy's powerful virtual piano technology for an unforgettable playing experience.
Sonnox Oxford Plugins: Sonnox Oxford evolved out of a group of dedicated audio professionals who first worked together in the early 1980s. Having spent many years designing analogue and digital consoles for a leading British manufacturer, five engineers started a new Company in 1988 which was called Oxford Digital. Over the subsequent years the team slowly expanded, until in 1993 it became Sony Oxford.
One of Sony Oxford's major product designs was the OXF-R3 Digital Mixing Console, or 'Oxford Console' as it's often called. This huge undertaking, a no compromise high end digital audio system, was conceived by Oxford Digital in the late 1980s and productised for release by Sony in the mid 1990s. Virtually everything, including audio DSP chips and software design tools were designed at Oxford since, at that time, it was impossible to buy DSP technology with enough power.
As times and techniques moved on, and technology became cheaper with increasing power, we began to focus on how we could leverage the Oxford technologies into audio workstations. We became a development partner with DigiDesign and began work in order to create the Oxford EQ for Pro Tools. At the same time, we started work on the infrastructure for our e-commerce scheme which would be instrumental for sales and registration of our new software products ...