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Spectrasonics Stylus RMX Released
US
Realtime Groove Module first to use S.A.G.E. technology 27/10/04
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Stylus RMX is a completely new groove-based virtual instrument plug-in
for Macintosh and Windows. Stylus RMX is the first product to offer the
combined power of Groove Control™ with Spectrasonics Advanced Groove
Engine (S.A.G.E.™) technology giving users dramatic new control over
groove production and performance.
"The release of Stylus RMX is a very exciting moment in Spectrasonics’
ten year history," said Eric Persing, Spectrasonics’ Founder and
Creative Director. "Stylus RMX is the culmination of so many dreams
we’ve had for a world-class groove machine. The new S.A.G.E. technology
makes it simple to use and extremely powerful, all at the same time.
The creative synergy of our sound design and software development teams
has produced an instrument that has enormous musical potential and we
think our customers will find it inspiring for many years to come."
Spectrasonics’ in-house development team created the new instrument
from the ground up, with dozens of new features including the
ground-breaking Chaos Designer™, a completely redesigned, multi-page
user interface, a new core library of sounds, all with a focus on
realtime groove creation and performance.
New Core library
The massive new 7.4 gigabyte core-library in Stylus RMX has thousands
of cutting-edge grooves and sounds that were created by Spectrasonics’
international sound design team, and produced by Eric Persing. The new
core library contains nearly triple the amount of sounds originally
offered in the original Stylus, and contains all the original material
as well. The new sounds and grooves in Stylus RMX offer a much wider
range of modern musical genres than the original Stylus. Mixes of
grooves are broken down into individual tracks called Elements for
flexibility and infinite combinations.
Also new in Stylus RMX are thousands of new Kit modules, as well as
user Kit construction. The new sound menus have over 10,000 new single
hits, all arranged in organized categories. Users can create their own
customized multitrack remix grooves and kits, save them into the
plug-in, and even share them with other Stylus RMX users on different
platforms and hosts. It’s the ultimate Remix-oriented sound module for
building grooves.
Xpandable
Stylus RMX marks Spectrasonics’ first expandable virtual instrument,
with a series of five new “S.A.G.E. Xpanders” for Stylus RMX at $99US
retail each. Stylus RMX also can be expanded with existing Groove
Control CD-ROM libraries and even REX files – which opens the door for
musicians to utilize their own audio loops within the powerful S.A.G.E.
Environment.
Chaos Designer™
Of the many new capabilities in Stylus RMX, possibly the most
innovative feature is the Chaos Designer™. With simple controls, the
user can introduce musical Chaos into the groove, which allows it to
have constantly evolving variations— giving the impression that the
audio grooves are improvising. The results can be subtle or extreme by
setting the simple to use controls. A Capture feature allows the
spontaneous audio chaos patterns to be made into a MIDI file, dragged
and dropped into the host sequencer, and played back again for further
editing by the user.
On Chaos Designer Spectrasonics’ Persing notes, “Chaos Designer opens
up a new world of possibilities compared to standard loop software. The
one thing everyone likes about loops is that they are inspiring, but no
one likes that the loop always sounds exactly the same every time it
plays. Live musicians are always adding subtle variations in a
performance to make it breathe. With Chaos Designer, you get an
inspiring, improvising loop that changes — a little or a lot. It will
never sound the same, unless you want it to. And now it’s easy to
achieve in Stylus RMX.”
Stylus RMX Overview:
First product using new S.A.G.E. technology (Spectrasonics Advanced
Groove Engine)
Realtime auto-sync to the beat so grooves are always in time, even
when performed live! Groove Control is always active for optimum sound
quality at virtually any tempo.
Massive cutting-edge 7.4gb Core Library, with nearly triple the
sounds of the original Stylus.
(the original Stylus core library also included)
Expandable: add more grooves with new series of “S.A.G.E. Xpanders”
from Spectrasonics, also expandable with Groove Control® activated
sample libraries and with Propellerheads REX files, which allow a user
to import their own audio loops via ReCycle™.
Thousands of grooves, sounds, patches and interchangeable “Kit
modules” for building grooves from scratch
New multi-page user interface design with fully integrated Browser
for easily auditioning & organizing grooves
World-Class integrated FX Racks w/24 professional effects: Tube
Limiter, Tape Slammer, Modern and Vintage Compressors, Wah-Wah, Power
Filter, 6 different Vintage/Parametric/Graphic Equalizers, Flame
Distortion, Valve Radio, EZ-Verb, Gate Expander, Stereo Imager,
Flanger, 2 different Phasers, 3 BPM Delays, Retroplex Tape Delay
Innovative Chaos Designer™ adds musical variations and “improvising”
within stereo audio grooves!
8-part Multitimbral, each part can have dozens of grooves and samples
Eight stereo outputs (with supported software)
Edit Groups offer unique control of individual beats within an audio
loop: add ambience to just the backbeat, control the pitch of the snare
inside a stereo loop, reverse only specific slices in the
loop…non-destructively
Favorites Menu creation of user defined suites of grooves, perfect
for project-by-project work
User Kit building from core library, User Remixes,
cross-platform/cross-host patch compatibility
Easy MIDI Control of all 10,000 parameters with MIDI Learn: simply
grab the parameter and the hardware control
Powerful sound design features include new multi-mode Power Filter, 3
syncable LFOs, 3 AHDR envelopes, Reverse and more
Edit Templates to browse and audition grooves using custom sets of
parameter edits
Easy Edit page with Big Knobs for simple, yet powerful control of key
parameters
3 hours of Video Tutorials are included – a visual way to quickly
learn about Stylus RMX
Stylus RMX is now shipping to all authorized Spectrasonics distributors
and dealers. The US suggested retail price for Stylus RMX is $299,
while the European price is set at 249 Euros.
Upgrades from the “classic” Stylus are $99US and are the same in all
regions of the International market. Stylus customers who registered
Stylus for the first time after January 1st, 2004, are automatically
eligible for a FREE upgrade (excluding shipping) from the original
Stylus to Stylus RMX. Upgrades can be ordered on-line directly from the
Spectrasonics website at: http://techshop.spectrasonics.net/
Stylus RMX operates as a virtual instrument software plug-in for
Macintosh and Windows in all major hosts including Apple Logic™, MOTU
Digital Performer™, Digidesign Pro Tools™, Ableton Live™, Steinberg
Cubase SX™, Nuendo™, V-Stack™, Apple Garage Band™, Fruity Loops™, Sony
Acid Pro™, Cakewalk Sonar™, Project 5™ and many other VST and Audio
Unit host applications.
System Recommendations
Because the Stylus RMX plug-in is extremely versatile, we have listed
two sets of System Recommendations: one for using a single part (which
can have up to 60 grooves on a single channel), and another for using
RMX as a multitimbral module which allows hundreds of grooves on
multiple channels, multiple simultaneous effects, access to multi
patches and the use of the special Kit Mode.
SINGLE-TIMBRAL (1 Part) System Recommendations
640mb RAM, 8GB free hard disc space for core library, DVD-ROM drive
Macintosh:
OSX 10.2.6 or higher, 500mHz G3 or better CPU, Audio Unit, RTAS, or VST
host
Windows PC:
Windows 2000/XP, 600mHz Pentium III or better CPU, sound card, VST host
MULTI-TIMBRAL (8 Parts) System Recommendations
1GB RAM, 8GB free hard disc space for core library, DVD-ROM drive
Macintosh:
OSX 10.2.6 or higher, 1gHz G4/G5 or better CPU, Audio Unit, RTAS, or
VST host
Windows PC:
Windows 2000/XP, 1ghz Pentium IV or better CPU, sound card, VST host