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Spectrasonics STYLUS RMX - Realtime Groove Module

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.

What’s new in Stylus RMX?
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 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 - Chaos Designer

Stylus RMX Features Overview:

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)
Expandable - 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

Version release notes:
Stylus RMX 1.6.1:

Multiple output compabitility for Logic 8

Stylus RMX 1.6.0

Added Intel Mac support

Stylus RMX 1.5.1c

New Feature: Recent Sound Directories Pop-Up Menu You can now view the directories that you have recently visited by right-clicking anywhere in the Browser window. (CTRL-CLICK on the Mac) Once the directory is open, you can click on the directory name to immediately jump to that directory. This is very useful when you want to use a particular set of user or expansion libraries on multiple parts. It saves the time of having to navigate to the same place each time.
Fixed problem with Edit Group selection menu font in Cubase SX OSX
Fixed problem with deleting multiple instances of plugin
Fixed “PRE” option for Overdrive in BPM Delay FX Units
Fixed problem with length of slices at 96khz
Fixed problem with LFO sync when using non 4/4 time signatures
Fixed Windows authorization problem related to permissions

Stylus RMX 1.5 - Changes and new functions:

Sound Enhancement Update: The 1.5 update offers a completely new factory patch library, including 500 new Multi Grooves and 250 new Kits created by the acclaimed Spectrasonics sound design team, which take advantage of all the new features and effects that have been added since the original release of Stylus RMX. The complete patch library is now also organized by mood and genre. The expanded Groove Elements sound directory adds new “Tonal Elements” and “4×4 Kicks” suites geared for European dance club styles. The Core Library update also includes new Example Groove Menus in various genres - such as Drum ‘n Bass, Electronica, Urban, Percussion, Film Action/Suspense/Chase, etc.
New Sound Design Feature: “Chaos Buzz” - The unique new Chaos Designer “Buzz” feature allows real-time stutter edits, “bouncing-ball” and unusual tonal buzzing noises to be instantly applied to any groove, sound menu and Edit Group. The user can control the time between the repeats to get different pitches of buzzing, as well as controlling the acceleration speed and direction of the repeat FX. Chaos can be applied to the probability of how often the buzz effect is heard, as well as chaotically varying the range of acceleration and the range of time and pitch change. Buzz is a wild effect that’s perfect for creative electronic music remixing in real-time.
Comprehensive Integrated Documentation: The new embedded “Help System” provides instant access to the brand new comprehensive Reference Guide for Stylus RMX, right from within the RMX plug-in. A modern way to get just the information you need, when you need it! This new manual is over 68,000 words and covers every area of the instrument - with full cross-referencing to all of the video tutorials and links to relevant chapters and to the Internet. As RMX continues to evolve, so will this new electronic Reference Guide - ensuring that the manual is always up to date with the software.
Over 4.5 Hours of New Video Tutorials Included: This 1.5 update brings the total RMX video tutorials up to nearly 8 hours of included training! In the 36 new video tutorials, the Spectrasonics team goes deep into showing how to unlock the full potential of Stylus RMX 1.5 in creative musical applications, demonstrating the new hardware controller templates in action and also teaching “host-specific” video tutorials for Apple Logic, Digidesign Pro Tools, Steinberg Cubase SX, Ableton Live, Cakewalk Sonar, MOTU Digital Performer and more. All the new video tutorials are posted in the RMX Community on the Spectrasonics website for free download to registered users at:http://www.spectrasonics.net/rmxcommunity/
Windows RTAS Support: Native support for the Windows version of Digidesign’s RTAS plug-in format has been added. Stylus RMX is now available to Pro Tools users on both platforms of Windows XP and OSX.
Conversion Support for more Groove Control® Libraries: Four more Groove Control CD-ROM titles are now supported in the SAGE Converter: Ethno Techno, Big Bad Beats, Stark Raving Beats, and NoizBox
Batch Conversion of REX Files and Libraries: Batch conversion of REX files and REX libraries via a single drag and drop in the SAGE Converter, greatly simplifying the process of getting audio loops into Stylus RMX.
Browse Core Library by Genre & Category: You can now browse the Core Library by genre and new categories including: Epic Energy, Breakbeats, Electronic, Urban, Swing and Club
New MIDI Learn Features: A new MIDI Learn submenu has been added to the utility menu that contains many new options. “Show All” displays your current MIDI Learn settings in your web browser. MIDI Learn templates can now be saved and loaded for easy hardware setup. Assignments can now be cloned and placed in Omni mode for easier control of multi-channel systems. MIDI Learn has been added as an option to the value display that shows the “MIDI CC assignment” of a parameter when you tweak it.
Hardware Controller Templates: A selection of custom MIDI Learn templates for some of the most popular hardware controllers on the market including the Korg microKontrol, Kontrol 49, Behringer BCR/BCF-2000, M-Audio Trigger Finger, O2, Ozonic and others. Full documentation and detailed tutorials are also provided for users to create and share their own hardware controller RMX templates for any MIDI device.
16 Active Edit Groups: With the performance improvements in v1.5, Stylus RMX now has doubled the number of active Edit Groups to 16. This brings the total number of RMX parameters to over 20,000 in a single instance!
Expanded LFO Sync Capabilities: Improved LFO behavior allows all LFO waveforms to be phase locked to the bar of the song, allowing greater capability for rhythmic LFO modulation that performs consistently. When the LFO SYNC and RETRIGGER are turned on, the phase of the LFO is locked to the song beat so, for example, the sawtooth shape will always start on a beat boundary.
Enhanced Browser Display Mode: The Browser now displays the most recently played groove with a speaker icon. This is very useful in Groove Menu mode to correlate the name of the groove you are playing from a MIDI controller.
Show Author: An item has been added to the utility menu to display information about the author of the current Suite.
New Edit Group Functions in Groove Menu Mode: In Groove menu MIDI mode, choosing “Create edit group” will now create an edit group for the last groove played and put the entire groove in that edit group. This facilitates very fast real-time editing on any groove within a Groove Menu.
New Confirmation Dialogs: Confirmation Dialogs are now displayed at various points where a significant amount of work could be lost. This includes: part clear, part revert, multi clear, favorites delete, and switching to, or from, kit mode.
Also includes performance enhancements for Windows systems, various fixes and improved user interface display feedback.

The Stylus RMX version 1.5 update is available to all registered Stylus RMX users as a Free download from the Spectrasonics website. The full update can also be ordered as a DVD-ROM for $15US plus shipping from the Spectrasonics Techshop at: http://techshop.spectrasonics.net/

Spectrasonics STYLUS RMX - Realtime Groove Module

Spectrasonics STYLUS RMX - Standard Edit

Stylus RMX is shipping to all authorized Spectrasonics distributors. The US suggested retail price for Stylus RMX is $299, while the European price is 249 Euros. Upgrades from “classic” Stylus are $99US and are the same in all regions of the International market.

Stylus RMX operates as a virtual instrument software plug-in for Macintosh and Windows in all major hosts including Apple Logic™, MOTU Digital Performer™, Digidesign Pro Tools™, Ableton Live™, Steinberg Cubase SX™, Nuendo™, V-Stack™, Apple Garage Band™, Fruity Loops™, Sony Acid Pro™, Cakewalk Sonar™, Project 5™ and many other VST and Audio Unit host applications.