Manytone has announced the release of ManyStation version 2, an upgrade to the company’s flagship synthesizer. Here's the details directly from their press release:
ManyStation is Windows VSTi workstation synthesizer providing detailed and highly playable sounds. It comes with 1.5GB of sounds including multi-sampled acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitars, cellos and vintage hardware synths.
ManyStation version 2 offers significantly increased functionality, and a vastly increased sample library which is available to all Manytone VSTi customers through Manytone FreeZone.
The new functionality in ManyStation version 2 includes:

• An advanced browser which allows for soundset and preset categorization
• Data now loads two times faster
• Extra destinations have been added to the modulation matrix
• ManyStation will now load DashSND files without conversion, and
• Micro-tuning is supported.
  

The new content which is available through Manytone FreeZone includes:
Hypertone Mixed Bag
24 Soundsets - 105 Meg
Samples from some old hardware synths: this pack is in the vein of Hardware Classics Volume 1 that comes with ManyStation but is a whole new set of multi-sampled and looped sounds and comes with a bank of presets that will take the classic synth sounds to new levels of sonic excitement.
Drums Volume 1
8 Soundsets - 25 Meg
This pack contains six new drum kits. The pack also includes a great kick soundset with 17 different kicks and a snare soundset with 31 different snares.
DX pack
3 Soundsets - 40 meg
This Pack contains a couple of DX7 electric piano soundsets and a tubular bells set. All sets are multi-sampled and were tweaked to perfection.
Distorted me
1 Soundset - 36 Meg
In cooperation with www.getdistorted.com, a special Manytone Edition of the fantastic heavy guitar sampleset "DISTORTED". This is a taste of the full package.
Guitar midi files
This pack includes a range of guitar midi files for use with ManyStation (or Manytone’s ManyGuitar).
ManyMapper
Manytone’s graphical sample mapping utility which can create and edit WusikSND and DashSND soundsets.
Pricing and availability
ManyStation version 2 is available now. The price remains at $99.99.
More information:

• www.manytone.com
  
  
  

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