Real Time Groove Module with FIVE Spectrasonics SAGE Xpanders

Spectrasonics have released the “Stylus RMX Xpanded” product package which includes the acclaimed Stylus RMX Realtime Groove Module virtual instrument software, plus all five of the award-winning S.A.G.E. Xpander expansion libraries: Backbeat, Retro Funk, Metamorphosis, Burning Grooves and Liquid Grooves. The addition of the Xpanders’ 5.5gb of outstanding acoustic drum and percussion grooves enhance Stylus RMX’s already massive 7.4gb remix-oriented core library.

Since its introduction, Stylus RMX has become one of the most popular and widely-used virtual instruments in the world - offering a quick and easy way to creatively assemble incredible sounding grooves in all the popular host sequencers: including Apple Logic, Digidesign Pro Tools, MOTU Digital Performer, Steinberg Cubase, Ableton LIVE, Cakewalk Sonar and many others. Although the core library of Stylus RMX is focused on “remix” genres, the thousands of Xpander grooves that are included in the new package vastly broaden the musical scope of RMX by offering grooves and sounds for any style of music.

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX Xpanded includes:

• Stylus RMX: Realtime Groove Module virtual instrument for Mac/Windows
• Backbeat Xpander: Live Acoustic “Straight-ahead” drum grooves
• Retro Funk Xpander: Authentic vintage sound, feel and classic grooves
• Burning Grooves Xpander: Maximum impact, aggressive live drum grooves
• Liquid Grooves Xpander: Unique acoustic drum and percussion grooves
• Metamorphosis Xpander: 21st Century remix grooves
• Multi Library: Hundreds of amazing Multi-groove patches
• Bonus Section: Grooves from Vocal Planet, Distorted Reality and more
• A total of over 13 Gigabytes of massive sounds and grooves!

The grooves on these Xpanders were produced by Eric Persing and feature numerous top session drummers including Abe Laboriel Jr, Gregg Bissonette, Bob Wilson, Eric Boseman and John Ferraro . They were recorded by Grammy-winning engineers at several legendary Hollywood studios. The wide range of tones and styles of the five Xpanders provide a versatile starting point for users to create authentic rhythm tracks.

“The RMX Xpanded package offers a whole world of sound and grooves for a new user,” said Eric Persing , Founder and Creative Director of Spectrasonics. “We wanted to make it an easy choice for music producers to get Stylus RMX for any type of music they want to create. With the thousands of grooves, millions of possible user-created combinations along with REX file importing and all the unique editing capabilities such as Chaos Designer, built-in effects and Edit Groups, there’s a vast and inspiring sonic palette that awaits.”

Spectrasonics 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.

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, 250 Kit patches, as well as user Kit construction....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. RMX 1.5 even comes with 500 new Multi 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 Spectrasonics 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.

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX Features:

• 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)
• Add more grooves with new series of “S.A.G.E. Xpanders”
• Expandable with Groove Control® activated sample libraries
• Expandable with Propellerheads REX files, which allow a user to import their own audio loops via ReCycle™.
• Thousands and thousands of grooves, sounds, patches and interchangeable “Kit modules” for building grooves
• 500 Multi Grooves
• 250 Kits
• World-Class integrated FX Racks w/27 professional effects: Tube Limiter, Tape Slammer, Modern and Vintage Compressors, Wah-Wah, Power Filter, 6 different Vintage/Parametric/Graphic Equalizers, Flame Distortion, Valve Radio, PRO-Verb, EZ-Verb, Spring Verb, Gate Expander, Stereo Imager, Flanger, 2 different Phasers, 3 BPM Delays, Retroplex Tape Delay and Radio Delay
• Easy MIDI Control of all 20,000 parameters with MIDI Learn: simply grab the parameter and the hardware control
• Hardware Controller Templates provided for Popular models by Korg, Behringer and M-Audio
• Over 9 hours of professional Video Tutorials are included a visual way to quickly learn about Stylus RMX!
• Integrated Documentation - A 68,000 word Reference Guide is accessible directly from the plug-in Help menu
• Multipage user interface design with fully integrated Browser for easily auditioning & organizing grooves
• Innovative Chaos Designer™ adds musical variations and “improvising” within stereo audio grooves!
• 8-part Multitimbral, each part can have dozens of grooves and samples
• Multiple 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
• Built-in Mixer w/ 8 channels, mute/solo, level, meters, 4 Aux sends, output assignments
• Drag and Drop MIDI files into host sequencer
• User Kit building from core library, User Remixes, cross-platform/cross-host patch compatibility
• Groove Menu mode allows any suite of multiple grooves to be played live from the keyboard on a single MIDI channel
• Grooves can be instantly auditioned at Half Time / Double Time
• Build Multitrack Grooves in realtime!
• Real-time Jamming in sync!
• 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