New Zero-G Release - NOW SHIPPING on DVD (also available by DOWNLOAD exclusively from our UK partner Time+Space):

SPIRITOSO
(Kontakt 4 instruments, WAV)

Produced by Dan Graham, the man behind last year´s Zero-G sample library smash Animato, we now present SPIRITOSO Live Cello Phrases - 17Gb of 24bit live audio magic!

Performed by Ian Bracken, a world-class cellist from the Liverpool Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded in Liverpool's famous Parr Street studios, Spiritoso: Live Cello Phrasesis a 17Gb collection of thousands of live recorded phrases, rhythms, chords and arpeggios all compressed down to 8Gb of material using Kontakt 4's new lossless compression technology.

The fifty-seven Kontakt 4 instruments allow patterns to automatically sync to the tempo of your projects and a wide variety of chord, rhythm and scale types can be selected using key-switches. The dynamic level pp to ff can be smoothly crossfaded by mod wheel, the ensemble size can be zoomed from solo to 12 players, and two mic positions (close and room) can be chosen or blended. All of this adds up to incredible sonic control.

A great tool in itself, Spiritoso also works incredibly well blended with other premium orchestral sample libraries as a way of introducing a new layer of realism into your scores.

A total of six months combined work by an expert team of audio editors, scripters and GUI designers, with many genuine innovations emerging in the process and eventually having successfully met the initial goals and more, Spiritoso is ready to be enjoyed by the world's most demanding producers and composers.

Click HERE for full information including AUDIO DEMOS, pricing, detailed contents PDF and links to your local Zero-G DVD distributor.

This brand new title is also available to purchase by DOWNLOAD. Until September 2011 the download version of Spiritoso is sold exclusively through our UK partner TIME+SPACE. Click HERE to view it on their website. Currently, they are also the only company currently selling the download versions of our hottest recent releases Alien Skies, Animato, The Paradise Sessions, and House Fabrik, but all these titles will of course also be available in the Zero-G Download Shop in the near future.

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URBAN LEGEND now available in the Zero-G Download Shop!

EXCLUSIVE INTRODUCTORY OFFER UNTIL 31 MARCH 2011 ONLY,
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URBAN LEGEND - DOWNLOAD
WAV, ACID, Akai MPC, EXS24, Kontakt, Reason NN-XTs

Zero-G and Xfonic present URBAN LEGEND - a colossal set full of the coolest, most up-to-date hiphop on the planet. THIS LIBRARY IS IMMENSE! From the makers of the best-sellingUrban Ammunition comes the largest library of urban samples ever to hit the streets. With almost 8000 samples at your disposal Urban Legend will never fail to deliver something new to inspire your hiphop and RnB productions.

However, quality has not been sacrificed at the expense of quantity. All the samples are recorded in pristine 24bit and mastered to perfection using state of the art production tools. The programming is beyond compare but there is also plenty of live instrumentation as well to give you that all important groove. There's even a bank of live orchestral samples!

The roll call of material includes an incredible 100 full construction kits. There are also 780 drumloops, 300 live drumloops, 150 live Orchestral samples, 220 percussion loops, 1550 single hits and over 300 multi-sampled bass, lead and pad synth instruments specifically created for use in urban tracks.

Check the Urban Legend video demo now on YouTube

Audio demos (mp3):

 Urban Legend Construction Kit Demo 1
 Urban Legend Construction Kit Demo 2
 Urban Legend Construction Kit Demo 3
 Urban Legend Construction Kit Demo 4
 Urban Legend Construction Kit Demo 5
 Urban Legend Construction Kit Demo 6

"Here we have an insane 100 hip-hop and RnB construction kits. The quality of sound ranges from extremely raw to beautifully pristine, but everything is as fat as can be and very much suited to the style of each kit. Authenticity levels are mostly sky-high. the musical parts are all well-written and there's a good variety of live instruments in there, as well as some slightly less expected instruments that fit right in. Then there are hundreds of drum loops and multisampled synths, followed by over 1500 single hits and 150 orchestral samples. Very good indeed! Rating 10/10" (Computer Music magazine, UK).

"This double DVD set offers practically every kind of sample a Hip hop or R&B producer could need. 100 construction kits, mainly focused around the 80-100bpm range, make up the bulk of the content. You'll also find thousands of additional loops, live orchestral samples, a huge collection of individual drum and FX hits plus 300 multi-sampled synth instrumnets for good measure. Samples are provided in 24-bit Acidized WAV format with MPC programs, ESX24, Kontakt and NN-XT patches to hep you drag them into your productions. It may be a pricey one but with nearly 8,000 samples spread over the two discs there's enough here to keep you going for a very long time indeed. Rating: 9/10" (Future Music magazine, UK)

This is a sample library loaded with creativity and enough prime cuts to keep you firing for a very long time. Load up your musical arsenal now with Urban Legend!. Raise the standard again, Demand the best: URBAN LEGEND is a MUST HAVE collection.

This fantastic library comes in the following formats that should suit every music producer:

Acid™WAV
Akai MPC
EXS24
Kontakt
Reason NN-XT

Features:
* 8.3Gb of sounds on two DVDs
* 7900 Acidized WAV files in total
* 100 Construction Kits with loops & single hits
* 780 additional drumloops
* 220 additional percussion loops
* 300 additional live drumloops
* 150 Live Orchestral Samples
* 1550 single hits
* 300 multisampled synth instruments
* FX and more......

For a detailed breakdown of every sample in the Urban Legend library, click HERE for a PDF

SAVE $30 on the URBAN LEGEND download (Offer ends 31 March)
You pay only $89.99 (Normal price would be $119.99)
To buy at the exclusive introductory offer price and save $30, enter the discount coupon code "LEGEND30" at the checkout in the Download Shop.

NOW is the time to buy Urban Legend!

NOTE: This is a very large library to download. It has been compressed to RAR format for the download. After purchase you will download eleven separate rar files, each about 488MB in size, except part 11 which is 293MB. After downloading all eleven files, double click the first file and the entire library will expand automatically to produce one folder containing all samples in all formats.

Click HERE to view this title in our Download Shop..

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Place all three titles in your shopping cart and when you go to checkout you will find that your final order total has been discounted by $75.00

Offers valid for our newsletter subscribers only. The discount is given at checkout, on order total (after any sales taxes are added, if any). Customers in the European Union countries will have 20% VAT added before the discount is applied. Offers expires at midnight on 31 March (PST).

The Zero-G Download Shop has been upgraded! Try it now!

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Please note that the old Zero-G Download Shop will remain open for business for a couple of weeks, as there are still a few of the older products that we have not yet transferred to the new shop.

New Zero-G DVD Release - NOW SHIPPING:

ANIMATO - String & Flute FX for Cinema 
WAV files, Kontakt instruments

Now shipping!
Zero-G and Xfonic present ANIMATO String & Flute FX for Cinema - 4.5Gb of 24bit cinematic audio inspiration! Animato contains 3000 samples and 139 separate Kontakt instruments each with its own custom GUI created especially for this project.

Demo 1 Demo 2 Demo 3
More demos HERE

Featuring world-class instrumentalists from the renowned Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Animato is a uniquely realistic, expressive and playable Orchestral Effects library. With a wide sonic range from chaotic, tense effects to beautiful undulating pads. Distant pianissimo sirens can shift seamlessly to fortissimo ungodly screeches all at the simple command of your Mod Wheel.

The 20th century saw the extreme sonic possibilities and expressive potential of classical instruments gradually become standard compositional tools of pioneering concert and film composers. Now at last, many of the best and most exciting possibilities are presented here in an easy to control format utilising the massive sonic capabilities of Kontakt enabling you to change microphone positions or ensemble size at the turn of a knob.

The unique depth and complexity of sound presented here is the product of many players playing complex, changing parts together – a quality heard in full live orchestral performances but impossible to re-create using standard orchestral sample libraries, where stacking up many straight-played notes in a sequencer only results in a flat, straight-played sound.

This library is perfect for adding realistic strings and woodwind effects to soundtracks, TV programmes and games but it is also ideal for contemporary commercial producers looking for authentic live sounds that give their productions a leading edge.

The starting point for this library was to make it perfect for creating soundtracks to films, TV programs and games, with a leaning towards the eerie and tortured. However, for contemporary commercial pop/rock/hip-hop production you will also find some of the most beautiful pads you'll ever hear. It is also ideal for contemporary commercial producers looking for authentic live sounds that give their productions a leading edge.

Why was it created? It started with a problem: how can you get world class orchestral effects, that sound like a real orchestra playing, which are highly expressive, completely controllable and easy to play, and yet avoid having to pay for £10,000 recording sessions? After sifting in vain through commercially available premium orchestral sound libraries, producer Dan Graham found nothing that could fulfill all of these requirements. And so, he set out to record his own dream orchestral sample collection – all the weird and wonderful effects he'd employed in his own live orchestral recordings – something that would be complex, alive but easily controllable with a Mod Wheel.

Recorded over a week in May 2010 at Liverpool's famous Parr Street Studios (Coldplay, Genesis amongst others), four world class Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra players were heavily multi-tracked up to create 16 violins, 8 cellos, 6 flutes and 6 piccolos for that big ensemble effect.

20 hours of stereo 24-bit 44.kHz audio was painstakingly edited down, looped and programmed in Kontakt 3.5 over 3 months by Dan Graham, programmer Andy Flett and scripter Mario Krušelj until this beautiful library was finished and put to immediate effective use on a series of tracks for movie trailers. Tried, tested and satisfied, the collection was then finally handed over to Zero-G so that these wonderful sounds could be shared with the most demanding composers and producers in the world.

Click HERE for much more info including MORE DEMOS, pricing, detailed contents PDFs and links to your local Zero-G DVD distributor.

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We've just added our best selling title to our Download Shop and until 31 October it's offered with a $20 introductory discount, exclusively for our registered users and newsletter subscribers:

EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER OFFER THIS MONTH ONLY:
SAVE $20 ON THIS NEW DOWNLOAD:

Offer price: $119.99 (normally $139.99) SAVE $20 Hurry - Offer expires 31 October Audio demos HERE

Dark Skies - Cinematic Ambiences (WAV, ACID, Kontakt, EXS24, Reason NN-XT, Apple Loops): Now available by download for the first time. Packed full of ambiences, soundscapes, drones and FX this is the perfect accompaniment for any professional film, TV or video game producer and sound editor looking for something extra. Including everything from huge, luscious, panoramic soundscapes to the mysterious, eerie and downright scary and everything in between, this enormous library is made for people who are serious about their sound design. It contains over 1000 instruments in EXS24, Kontakt and NN-XT format as well as standard Acidized Wav files and Apple Loops all recorded in stunning 24bit using top of the range equipment by one of the world's leading sound fx producers. "This is state of the art sound design. A first class collection suitable for top-end professional use.. Very good value for money.. FIVE STARS out of five" (SOUND ON SOUND magazine, UK) "These sounds are exceptionally high in quality... This is a professional collection for film, TV and media composers that would more than pay for itself due to the sheer size and usability of the material... This is an essential purchase for anyone working on a sci-fi or horror project"(MUSIC TECH magazine, UK) "An extremely sizeable library... For any producer inspired by the likes of Cinematic Orchestra and Squarepusher, there is a wealth of material... Zero-G have gone out of their way to create a varied collection of professional sounding samples that could easily find themselves in film and TV soundtracks, as much as they could electronic dance music productions. VERDICT: A versatile sample pack that can be used in any production that needs a little extra detailing." (DJ magazine, UK) "Thanks to the excellent sound quality and diversity, and the Hollywood-ready sound design, this library is highly recommended for film and game music producers" (BEAT magazine, GERMANY) In addition to hundreds of ambiences, soundscapes drones and fx which are themed into sections, there are over 50 construction kits which present sounds within the context of a short musical/sound design piece under the general headings Ambient Score, Dark Score, Science Core and Textural. There is also a themed collection of individual samples, ranging from beautiful washes of ambient bliss, to harsh digital blasts and granular FX. All of the samples have been pre-cleared and are 100% original & royalty-free for your musical use without any additional licensing fees. Includes: * 940 Acidized WAV files * 940 AIFF Apple Loops * 1027 Kontakt Instruments * 1027 EXS24 Instruments * 1027 NN-XT Instruments For a FULL LIST OF CONTENTS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF CATEGORIES AND SOUNDSclick HERE to view this product in our Download Shop. NOTE: This product is divided into 16 separate parts, to make the downloads more manageable. After purchase you will be directed to a page where you can download all 16 parts. You will also receive an email giving you a link to that same download page. Parts 1-8 contain the WAV and instrument files; Parts 8-16 are the Apple Loops. To buy at the introductory offer price and save $20, click here or hit the BUY NOW button:.

New Zero-G DVD Release - NOW SHIPPING:

URBAN LEGEND 
WAV, ACID, Akai MPC, EXS24, Kontakt, Reason NN-XTs

A MASSIVE 8Gb of mind-blowing hiphop and RnB!
Zero-G and Xfonic present URBAN LEGEND - a 2 DVD set full of the coolest, most up-to-date hiphop on the planet. THIS LIBRARY IS IMMENSE!

Urban Legend: From the makers of the best-selling Urban Ammunition comes the largest library of urban samples ever to hit the streets. With almost 8000 samples at your disposalUrban Legend will never fail to deliver something new to inspire your hiphop and RnB productions.

However, quality has not been sacrificed at the expense of quantity. All the samples are recorded in pristine 24bit and mastered to perfection using state of the art production tools. The programming is beyond compare but there is also plenty of live instrumentation as well to give you that all important groove. There's even a bank of live orchestral samples!

The roll call of material includes an incredible 100 full construction kits. There are also 780 drumloops, 300 live drumloops, 150 live Orchestral samples, 220 percussion loops, 1550 single hits and over 300 multi-sampled bass, lead and pad synth instruments specifically created for use in urban tracks.

This is a sample library loaded with creativity and enough prime cuts to keep you firing for a very long time. Load up your musical arsenal now with Urban Legend!Raise the standard again, Demand the best: URBAN LEGEND is a MUST HAVE collection.

Features:
* 8.3Gb of sounds on two DVDs
* 7900 Acidized WAV files in total
* 100 Construction Kits with loops & single hits
* 780 additional drumloops
* 220 additional percussion loops
* 300 additional live drumloops
* 150 Live Orchestral Samples
* 1550 single hits
* 300 multisampled synth instruments
* FX and more......

Demo 1 Demo 2 Demo 3

Click HERE for more info including MORE DEMOS, pricing, detailed contents PDFs and links to your local Zero-G DVD distributor.

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DARK SKIES nominated for BEST SOUND LIBRARY AWARD!

Exciting news! - our very best selling DVD title DARK SKIES - CINEMATIC AMBIENCES has been nominated for the BEST SOUND LIBRARY AWARD inSound on Sounds's 25th Anniversary Awards.

If you own Dark Skies, we'd be very grateful if you would show your appreciation by voting for it! You can submit your vote here: http://www.sosawards.com/vote/

Here's what the press had to say about Dark Skies:

"This is state of the art sound design. A first class collection suitable for top-end professional use.. Very good value for money.. FIVE STARS out of five"
SOUND ON SOUND MAGAZINE, UK .

"These sounds are exceptionally high in quality... This is a professional collection for film, TV and media composers that would more than pay for itself due to the sheer size and usability of the material... This is an essential purchase for anyone working on a sci-fi or horror project"
MUSIC TECH MAGAZINE, UK

"An excellent pack for soundtrack producers. Rated 9 out of 10"
COMPUTER MUSIC MAGAZINE, UK

"An extremely sizeable library... For any producer inspired by the likes of Cinematic Orchestra and Squarepusher, there is a wealth of material... Zero-G have gone out of their way to create a varied collection of professional sounding samples that could easily find themselves in film and TV soundtracks, as much as they could electronic dance music productions. VERDICT: A versatile sample pack that can be used in any production that needs a little extra detailing."
DJ MAGAZINE, UK

"Thanks to the excellent sound quality and diversity, and the Hollywood-ready sound design, this library is highly recommended for film and game music producers. Rated 9/10"BEAT MAGAZINE, GERMANY

MORE INFO AND DEMOS, AND LINKS TO YOUR LOCAL ZERO-G DVD DISTRIBUTOR CAN BE FOUND HERE

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Vocaloid TONIO is here! 

A brand-new plug-in VIRTUAL VOCALIST modelled on the voice of a professional male opera singer, and powered by the amazing Yamaha VOCALOID2 Singing Synthesis Technology.

TONIO is modelled on the actual voice of a professional male classical singer. NOTE: Tonio in now available as a boxed DVD version or as a DOWNLOAD. The content of both versions is identical.

Once TONIO is installed into your PC he will allow you to create synthesized singing of unprecedented quality and remarkable realism.

Demo: Una Furtiva Lagrima (mp3 audio)

MIKE OLDFIELD is just one high profile artist who has used Vocaloid to add a new dimension to his music (for example the Vocaloid sound is a key element in his album "Light & Shade" - check out the hauntingly hypnotic single he released from it, "Surfing").

With a vocal register that covers both baritone and tenor Tonio has a voice that will satisy the most demanding of compositions. .

An ideal partner to Vocaloid PRIMA, Tonio has a voice that is full of unmistakable character, colour and charm. Just like Prima, he will hit those high notes every time with perfect accuracy..

Whether it's soaring leads, harmonies or backing vocals, Tonio can sing any word from the English language (and other languages too with a little work).

Tonio is also very well suited if you want to be adventurous and experimental, since his voice can be easily modified and shaped in many ways.

In addition to singing any words or combination of syllables or phonemes you can imagine, TONIO will spread any sustained vowel (or voiced consonant) across as many notes as you like, with perfect legato. You can select from several different natural vibrato types and drag and drop your chosen type to any note or notes, and control the time-position and amount of the vibrato.

And that's just the beginning - you have control over all of the following parameters, which you can bring to bear on any part of your creation:

- Changing syllables/phonemes
- Timing of each note (precise position/length).
- Vibrato (you can change its type/position/amount/frequency).
- Volume
- Attack.
- Crescendo or diminuendo
- Pitch bend (amount, and positionable in time).
- Glide (portamento).
- Resonance (Frequency/bandwidth/amplitude)
- Harmonics.
- Noise.
- Brightness
- Clearness.
- Gender factor.

Key Features of VOCALOID2

VOCALOID2 is a the latest version of VOCALOID, which includes major improvements in usability and synthesis quality. Here are the key features:

• New GUI: The VOCALOID Editor (score editing tool) of VOCALOID2 has a cool new look with improved user functionality.

• A much more realistic and natural sounding vocal: The synthesis engine of VOCALOID2 uses a different signal processing technique from Version 1, creating a clearer and more natural vocal.

• Realtime Keyboard Performance (VST Instrument): Written lyrics can be assigned a note by touch of a keyboard. Now you can "sing" using a keyboard.

• New functionalities and improvements: Much easier to use functionalities are newly implemented, which reduce workloads in creating your music. Existing functionalities are also improved.

• Note auditioning: If you press a note, singing with lyrics and pitch will be assigned to the note. Instantly check lyrics and notes.

• Transparent control track: Control track for controlling timbre is transparent, so you can check two parameters at once.

• Toggling between Playback and Rendering You can specify playback/rendering mode for each track. By rendering the finished track, you can reduce CPU load in playback. Maximum number of tracks is 16.

• Expression control: You can easily specify musical expression (attack and vibrato) with this intuitive user interface.

Supported Interfaces & Standards:
VST 2.0, ReWire. (Please note however that VST with Cakewalk Sonar is not supported)

Recommended Retail Price:
Boxed DVD: $189.95 US Dollars (149.95 Euros / 124.95 pounds sterling)
Download: $149.99 US Dollars (= approx 119 Euros / approx 99.95 pounds sterling)

System Requirements:- 
Windows XP/Vista, Pentium 4 2 GHz/ Athlon XP 2000, 512 MB RAM (1GB of RAM recommended) (2 GB or more recommended when using VSTi realtime)· Approx 4 GB Free Hard Disk Space / DVD Drive.

Catalog (SKU) number: ZG-V6

All product specifications are subject to change without notice.

Availability: The TONIO boxed DVD is NOW SHIPPING! - Click HERE for more info including more audio demos and links to your local stockist.

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He is also available to buy by DOWNLOAD - click HERE for more info.

Brand new release: BEATALOGUE by Ian Boddy, & get EVOLUTION free!

EXCLUSIVE OFFER UNTIL THE END OF MARCH:
GET 'EVOLUTION' FREE OF CHARGE (normally $39.99) WHEN YOU BUY IAN BODDY'S BRAND NEW TITLE 'BEATALOGUE' FROM ZERO-G:

Beatalogue Demo ..or watch the demo video on YouTube Price (ex VAT): $33.99 Get "Evolution" FREE OF CHARGE when you buy Beatalogue from Zero-G (Normally $39.99)Offer ends 31 March

Beatalogue DOWNLOAD (WAV, REX, Apple Loops): Release date: Wednesday 3rd March Format: Download Price: $33.99 US Dollars Beatalogue is the fourth title in Ian Boddy's Waveforms series of sample libraries. As a follow up to Drumalogue this one takes as it's starting material a selection of electronic drum patterns and loops which are then fed through Boddy's massive modular synth system. These are then filtered, mangled and generally messed up using a huge number of modules all in the analogue domain. All the loops have between 3 and 5 variations and sonically range from sweet filtering all the way through to completely crunched and twisted mayhem. The quality of the distortion and overdrive achieved using these techniques gives the loops a gorgeous organic feel which is further heightened by the sound of the modular itself with it's fuzzy warmness and tripping envelopes. The sounds are also provided in Rex2 and Apple Loops format enabling them to be used at various tempos and dissected by the end user for their own purposes. Technical Data:300 mono samples at 44.1Khz, 24 bit in WAV format. All samples also provided in Rex2 & Apple Loops format. Drum loops sourced from Logic Ultrabeat, NI Reaktor & Kontakt, Sonic Charge Micro Tonic. Drum Loops filtered, mangled & messed up via the following analogue synthesisers: Roland System 100-M Analogue Systems Doepfer A-100 modular system Analogue Solutions Livewire AFG, Vulcan & Dalek Modulators Metasonix TM-2 Tube BP filter & R-53 Tube Waveshaper/Ring Mod Flight of Harmony Plague Bearer The Harvestman Malgorithm WMD Geiger Counter Make Noise QMMG Minimoog VCS3 Master tempo & auxillary voltage control provided by MOTU Volta via MOTU 828 interface. Recorded via TLAudio Ebony A2 tube stereo processor into Apple Mac using RME Fireface 400 audio interface. Samples edited in Bias Peak Pro 5. Rex2 files edited in RecycleV2 Apple loops edited in Apple Loops UtilityV3 Recorded & produced by Ian Boddy January 2010 - February 2010. To PRE-ORDER and reserve the Beataloguedownload (and to be sure of getting your FREE copy of Evolution) just send an email NOW to: info@zero-g.co.uk Please include your PayPal email address if you have one. On 3 March when Beatalogue is released, we'll send you a payment link, and following payment you will receive your download links right away. More info on the free product EVOLUTION HERE including four reviews.