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Arturia has a new audio interface and other HW products as well:
http://www.arturia.com/

That would be good. I thought version 2.0 development was quite far already.

Since you can't buy Alchemy anymore I wonder what will be the next sample playing VST people will buy?

"Camel Audio's plug-ins, Alchemy Mobile IAPs and sound libraries are no longer available for purchase. We will continue to provide downloads of your previous purchases and email support until July 7, 2015. We recommend you download all of your purchases and back them up so that you can continue...

It keeps amazing me how even the so called "smoothest" electronic drum loop libraries sound like a kung-fu movie slapfest. When I ran a search on "smoothest electronic beats" on the Net, the first match was some yoga music whose drum tracks still sound like a street fight. Energ...

Would you pay as much for that iPad app as current versions cost?

If not there are these
https://www.ableton.com/en/articles/con ... le-device/

If Live's browser supported user definable tagging then people could mark those best samples with tags that describe them. Such as "bright hat" or "clean punchy kick". Then later filter files so that only matching files are shown. The more files you have the more this system woul...

Discovered this free drum sample pack
http://www.wavealchemy.co.uk/ms-20-mini-drums/pid154/

Martin Gifford:
I see. All main controls immediately accessible like in many HW drum machines.

to Martin Gifford:
I'm also interested in their drum machine which may be released one day.
Even though I'm quite happy with many sounds I'm getting from currently available drum VSTs.

Could you list some features which could be most improved compared to what is available?

the most fun tool I've tried in quite a while
http://www.incredibox.com/v1/

Maybe not "hands in the air" but a new source of some interesting sounds:

http://dancemusicnw.com/nasa-launches-s ... und-songs/

Lots of sound examples in Youtube. This is one - but there are 2 other devices playing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKjpfo0WlW8

I just watched a TV program about the synth music of the 80s. One of the interviewed people said that bands tended to have same gear. TR808 for drums, Yamaha DX7 keyboard which came with 144 presets and all the bands used preset C7. I can understand avoiding presets at that time when there were so f...

User definable tagging system would allow the use of stars and many many other useful things that would make searching sounds and other files much easier than now. Alchemy's system is one of the best implementations I've seen in VSTs.