Electronic Musician - August 1998 - "What's New"

VAMTECH

Easy access to “real feel” rhythm is the name of the game with Drumtrax 3.0 (Mac/Win; $99.95), the new version of Vamtech’s drum library.  This comprehensive collection of Standard MIDI Files contains more than 25,000 measures of drum and percussion grooves.

 The unquantized Drumtrax grooves are recorded by real drummers in fourteen style categories, including blues, Latin, hip-hop, country, and soft rock. The CD-ROM contains four complete libraries with files saved in various Standard MIDI formats, so the collection is compatible with any sequencing program or keyboard workstation.
 In addition to the MIDI Files, the package includes the Drumtrax Librarian.  This database keeps MIDI files organized and offers a search function.  The list screen shows file name, description, and meter of each entery, with a field for user comments. You can look up a Drumtrax MIDI file in the Librarian and, with a mouse click, launch it in your MIDI sequencing program.

 Drumtrax 3.0 requires Windows 95 or Mac OS 7.1 or later and at least 8 MB RAM.  Vamtech Enterprises; tel. (800) 435-1889 or (978) 977-0570; fax (978) 977-0809; e-mail info@drumtrax.com; Web www.drumtrax.com.