NEW MUSIC AND VIDEO KLIP 2011

SONiVOX Announces Playa Hip Hop Strings – A Hip Hop Virtual Instrument for both OS X and Windows.
It's designed to provide hip hop, r’n’b, & pop producers a fast and easy way to add professional, top quality strings to their productions.
Hip Hop Strings’ distinctive user interface affords effortless integration of midi keyboards and MPC pad controllers, bridging the gap between MPC style music creation and the computer-based virtual instrument environment.

Playa Hip Hop Strings is packed with eight gigabytes of instruments forged from the distinguished SONiVOX Symphonic String Collection, a library featuring top players from the world-renowned Boston Pops & Boston Ballet Orchestras, recorded and programmed by SONiVOX’s sound design team.

Features:

• 8 Gigabytes of Premium String Content - Featuring Some of Boston's Most Accomplished Orchestral Musicians
• Over 200 String Instrument Patches and Pad Layouts
• Large Selection of Loops With Combined Legato, Staccato, and Pizzicato In All Major and Minor Keys; Each in 3 Tempos
• 16 User Programmable and Assignable Pads – For quick and easy MPC style beat construction.
• Over 50 Pad layouts – Hip Hop Strings is designed to get the producer going rite away with its construction kit layouts, diatonic chord layouts, and user programmable layouts.
• MIDI Learn & Save Function – Hip Hop Strings is instantly compatible with any MIDI controller.
• Independent Zone Tempo-Synced Variable Resolution Roll/Retrigger Mode.
• Onboard FX and Graphic Equalizer.
• Keys Mode – For standard keyboard play/performance.
• User Editable Envelope & Filter Controls.
• PC Standalone, VST and RTAS Compatibility.
• MAC Standalone, AU, VST, and RTAS Compatibility.



Playa - Hip Hop Strings is available now with a MSRP of $149 and an introductory street price of $99.
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Changes in this version:

The inspector rack and the mixer strips can now show embedded plugin editors. The Zynewave plugins are shown with their custom editor and other plugins are shown with the Podium generic editor.

The parameters shown in the embedded generic editors can be configured separately for the rack and the mixer. Selecting the embedded parameters can be done either by right-clicking the plugin selector and using the "embedded editor parameters" submenu, or by ticking the checkboxes in the parameter list panel. The plugin selector menu also has shortcut commands for selecting and clearing all embedded parameters. The parameter selection applies globally to all instances of the plugin.

Added an "Editors" option button to the track inspector toolbar. When enabled, a show/hide button will appear next to each plugin selector in the rack.

A scrollbar will appear in the inspector rack panel if the rack is too large to fit in the panel. The panel can be resized by dragging the bottom of the panel.




Made several changes to the appearance and mouse actions of the zPEQ editor: The embedded rack and mixer editors will not show the parameter fields, but will instead show a popup with info for the band closest to the mouse cursor. The curve is drawn centered around 0dB. Moving the mouse in the display will highlight the nearest band handle. Double-click the background to enable the next unused band. Double-click a band handle to disable the band. Right-click to show a band type menu for the nearest band. Click to drag frequency and gain of the nearest band. Alt+Click to drag the Q value of the nearest band.
Modified the speaker configuration texts that are appended to the name of imported plugins.

Changed the layout in the Colors setup dialog and added new settings for button and slider knob colors.

The color picker in the track inspector can now be used to adjust Podium UI colors. Use the color picker right-click menu to select the UI color. The available options matches the colors found in the Colors setup dialog.

Fix: Dragging a plugin .dll file onto Podium will now place the device objects in the correct devices folder.

Fix: The "replace effect chain" clipboard command would not always set the correct fader position.

Fix: Fixed a crash bug with the "copy track timeline events to the template" option in the save track template dialog.

Fix: The background color in the timeline navigator would not update when the timeline fill color was changed in the color setup.

Fix: Fixed a problem with the mixer "expand all groups" option.

Fix: Dragging a multiple point selection in the curve editor did not work properly when all the points were aligned to the bottom.

Fix: Dragging in the project browser with the drag-reordering option enabled would not remove the list insert highlighting when dragging outside the browser.

Fix: Using the beat slice function on 8-bit samples would cause a crash.

Fix: The audio input auto-assign option would not work if the focus track was not gain enabled.

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