Arturia Storm Virtual Music Studio (Macintosh and Windows)
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2 ADSR envelopes. 2 oscillators. 2 LFO's. 128 users presets and 64 patterns.
Overview
Storm Music Studio is music creation software, which accurately emulates the universe of a real recording studio: synthesizers, drum machines, sample players, effects, mixing table, sequencer... With the same sound quality, but for less money!
Create Your Studio
With Storm, you can choose the virtual instruments you wish to use: analog synthesizers, drum machines, sample sequencers, scratch decks. Drag and drop and in a few seconds your studio is ready: no more complicated connections and wires everywhere.
Compose in Real Time
Real time synthesis and effects, a user-friendly interface and a fully automated studio provide you with an unprecedented comfort and facility of composition.
Share Your Experience with other Users
As an integral part of the studio, the Hall is a set of interactive tools, giving the user the ability to collaborate on-line with others. The Hall offers file sharing and downloading, chat rooms, newswires, tips and tutorials.
Learn New Styles of Music
The Composition Wizard is made to help users to quickly understand the general use of the program and the different sides of creating a song. And, if you think you already have enough experience in making computer music, it can help you to learn how to compose in music styles you are not familiar with.
Storm presently hosts 13 instrument modules described below. Build your ideal studio by placing these instruments on your rack. Meteor, Arsenic and Orpheus, an example of a dream studio for Trance. Replace… read more them with scratch, Hork, H3o+ and EzTrack: now you've got a Hip Hop studio !
Shadow
Shadow is a synthesizer fully designed for creating convincing chords and pads. Thanks to high-quality features (pulse width modulation, no sampling, no aliasing), it provides you with a very pure sound, while emulating an analog sound close to the famous analog synthesizers of the 80's.
8-note polyphony
2 true analog oscillators
2 waveforms, square and sawtooth
A multi-mode filter
MIDI assignable
64 patterns
128 presets
2 modes of programming: manual/assisted
playable as VST instrument.
Orpheus
Orpheus is a polyphonic synthesizer. It has all the qualities of a classic synthesizer:
2 ADSR envelopes
2 oscillators with a wave table sweeping system, a ring modulator and a synchro mode
a multi-mode filter
2 LFO's
128 users presets and 64 patterns
Like other STORM synthesizers, you can control the knobs with an external MIDI device, and you can play it with a MIDI keyboard.
Bass52
Bass 52 is a bass guitar synthesizer. Sounds are generated by physical modeling. The sounds are much more realistic than the sounds created by sampling: plucking, vibration, and string dampening! You can customize your module, so it can generate various types of sounds: metallic, damped, slapped, hit and so on.
EZTrack
With the EZtrack module, recording sound becomes child's play! EZtrack comes with the following features : Cut/Copy/Paste, Thru mode toggle switch, Punch-in / Punch-out, tempo sync. Record voices, instruments and various sounds to enlarge your personal sample library.
Hork
The Hork module is a new drum machine producing sounds inherited from rock and hip-hop styles, especially designed for those who love "acoustic" drums sounds. Hork is provided with lots of sounds: Bass, Snare, open hi-hat and closed hi-hat, Rimshot, Clap, a number of Ride and Crash cymbals, 2 Tom cymbals, and a Tambourine.
Psion
The Psion drum machine provides you with a percussion kit: cymbals and charleys rendering a light and metallic sound; a bass drum and a tom, giving more of an "electronic" flavor.
Scratch
Drag and drop the samples you wish to mix on the deck. The samples are automatically set on the beat. You can then control the pitch of both decks, as well as the fader between them. Click on one of the decks, a hand is displayed and you can scratch while moving the fader.
H3O+
Four tracks are available on which to place samples to be played in parallel with the synthesis. With the time-stretching and pitch-shifting features, your samples immediately get the proper tonality and follow your piece rhythm. But you may also desynchronize them, change their tonality, or simply duplicate and transpose them. All modifications are made at once, that's the magic of Time Stretching/Pitch Shifting in real time. You can import MP3s, Waves or AIFF, everything is allowed. Moreover, Storm detects automatically the beat of imported samples.
Equinoxe
With this, you may create chords to accompany your composition. This module associates 3 sounds and allows the creation of rich background chords. Three superimposed oscillators... and a maximum control on all envelope and filter parameters: attack, decay, resonance, modulation, and cut-off. Programming the chord grid is very simple and is performed, as always in Storm, in real time.
Puma
The Puma drum machine offers a variety of exotic percussion sounds, with the same facility of programming as Meteor and Tsunami.
Meteor
This drum machine offers the sound samples that gave electronic music its place in history (do you know TR-909). As is the case with Tsunami, it is fairly simple to create a new rhythmic grid with four various dynamic levels for each beat. You may modify the pitch and decay of each sound, everything will be recorded dynamically in your pattern.
Tsunami
The Tsunami module is a 100% synthesized drum machine with 8 oscillators all fitted with various controllers: amplitude, frequency envelopes, band-pass filters, panoramic and level of each sound. Each control is recorded dynamically to create your own patterns with astounding sounds !
Arsenic
The Arsenic module is a real-time bass line synthesizer. It includes 64 programmable presets, several shapes of adjustable waves, a set of different dynamics for each note, and a low-pass resonance filter modulated by a cut-off frequency. Conclusion: an immense variety of vintage sounds with a few clicks. read less
Create Your Studio
With Storm, you can choose the virtual instruments you wish to use: analog synthesizers, drum machines, sample sequencers, scratch decks. Drag and drop and in a few seconds your studio is ready: no more complicated connections and wires everywhere.
Compose in Real Time
Real time synthesis and effects, a user-friendly interface and a fully automated studio provide you with an unprecedented comfort and facility of composition.
Share Your Experience with other Users
As an integral part of the studio, the Hall is a set of interactive tools, giving the user the ability to collaborate on-line with others. The Hall offers file sharing and downloading, chat rooms, newswires, tips and tutorials.
Learn New Styles of Music
The Composition Wizard is made to help users to quickly understand the general use of the program and the different sides of creating a song. And, if you think you already have enough experience in making computer music, it can help you to learn how to compose in music styles you are not familiar with.
Storm presently hosts 13 instrument modules described below. Build your ideal studio by placing these instruments on your rack. Meteor, Arsenic and Orpheus, an example of a dream studio for Trance. Replace… read more them with scratch, Hork, H3o+ and EzTrack: now you've got a Hip Hop studio !
Shadow
Shadow is a synthesizer fully designed for creating convincing chords and pads. Thanks to high-quality features (pulse width modulation, no sampling, no aliasing), it provides you with a very pure sound, while emulating an analog sound close to the famous analog synthesizers of the 80's.
8-note polyphony
2 true analog oscillators
2 waveforms, square and sawtooth
A multi-mode filter
MIDI assignable
64 patterns
128 presets
2 modes of programming: manual/assisted
playable as VST instrument.
Orpheus
Orpheus is a polyphonic synthesizer. It has all the qualities of a classic synthesizer:
2 ADSR envelopes
2 oscillators with a wave table sweeping system, a ring modulator and a synchro mode
a multi-mode filter
2 LFO's
128 users presets and 64 patterns
Like other STORM synthesizers, you can control the knobs with an external MIDI device, and you can play it with a MIDI keyboard.
Bass52
Bass 52 is a bass guitar synthesizer. Sounds are generated by physical modeling. The sounds are much more realistic than the sounds created by sampling: plucking, vibration, and string dampening! You can customize your module, so it can generate various types of sounds: metallic, damped, slapped, hit and so on.
EZTrack
With the EZtrack module, recording sound becomes child's play! EZtrack comes with the following features : Cut/Copy/Paste, Thru mode toggle switch, Punch-in / Punch-out, tempo sync. Record voices, instruments and various sounds to enlarge your personal sample library.
Hork
The Hork module is a new drum machine producing sounds inherited from rock and hip-hop styles, especially designed for those who love "acoustic" drums sounds. Hork is provided with lots of sounds: Bass, Snare, open hi-hat and closed hi-hat, Rimshot, Clap, a number of Ride and Crash cymbals, 2 Tom cymbals, and a Tambourine.
Psion
The Psion drum machine provides you with a percussion kit: cymbals and charleys rendering a light and metallic sound; a bass drum and a tom, giving more of an "electronic" flavor.
Scratch
Drag and drop the samples you wish to mix on the deck. The samples are automatically set on the beat. You can then control the pitch of both decks, as well as the fader between them. Click on one of the decks, a hand is displayed and you can scratch while moving the fader.
H3O+
Four tracks are available on which to place samples to be played in parallel with the synthesis. With the time-stretching and pitch-shifting features, your samples immediately get the proper tonality and follow your piece rhythm. But you may also desynchronize them, change their tonality, or simply duplicate and transpose them. All modifications are made at once, that's the magic of Time Stretching/Pitch Shifting in real time. You can import MP3s, Waves or AIFF, everything is allowed. Moreover, Storm detects automatically the beat of imported samples.
Equinoxe
With this, you may create chords to accompany your composition. This module associates 3 sounds and allows the creation of rich background chords. Three superimposed oscillators... and a maximum control on all envelope and filter parameters: attack, decay, resonance, modulation, and cut-off. Programming the chord grid is very simple and is performed, as always in Storm, in real time.
Puma
The Puma drum machine offers a variety of exotic percussion sounds, with the same facility of programming as Meteor and Tsunami.
Meteor
This drum machine offers the sound samples that gave electronic music its place in history (do you know TR-909). As is the case with Tsunami, it is fairly simple to create a new rhythmic grid with four various dynamic levels for each beat. You may modify the pitch and decay of each sound, everything will be recorded dynamically in your pattern.
Tsunami
The Tsunami module is a 100% synthesized drum machine with 8 oscillators all fitted with various controllers: amplitude, frequency envelopes, band-pass filters, panoramic and level of each sound. Each control is recorded dynamically to create your own patterns with astounding sounds !
Arsenic
The Arsenic module is a real-time bass line synthesizer. It includes 64 programmable presets, several shapes of adjustable waves, a set of different dynamics for each note, and a low-pass resonance filter modulated by a cut-off frequency. Conclusion: an immense variety of vintage sounds with a few clicks. read less
Specs
System Requirements
Windows
Pentium II 400 MHz processor
Windows 9x / 2000 / ME / XP
Java Runtime Environment 1.4 (provided with the installation)
DirectX 8 (provided) or higher
128 MB of RAM
Any DirectX, SoundManager or ASIO compatible sound card
About 150 MB of available hard disk space
MAC OS Classic
G3 400 MHz processor
Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x
MRJ 2.2 or higher (provided with the installation)
OMS 2.3.7 (provided)
128 MB of RAM
Any DirectX, SoundManager or ASIO compatible sound card
About 150 MB of available hard disk space
Mac OS X
G3 500 MHz processor
Mac OS X Version 10.1.4 or higher recommended
128 MB of RAM
Any DirectX, SoundManager or ASIO compatible sound card
About 150 MB of available hard disk space
To access the Internet functionalities of Storm, you should have Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or Netscape Navigator 4.x or higher.
Windows
Pentium II 400 MHz processor
Windows 9x / 2000 / ME / XP
Java Runtime Environment 1.4 (provided with the installation)
DirectX 8 (provided) or higher
128 MB of RAM
Any DirectX, SoundManager or ASIO compatible sound card
About 150 MB of available hard disk space
MAC OS Classic
G3 400 MHz processor
Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x
MRJ 2.2 or higher (provided with the installation)
OMS 2.3.7 (provided)
128 MB of RAM
Any DirectX, SoundManager or ASIO compatible sound card
About 150 MB of available hard disk space
Mac OS X
G3 500 MHz processor
Mac OS X Version 10.1.4 or higher recommended
128 MB of RAM
Any DirectX, SoundManager or ASIO compatible sound card
About 150 MB of available hard disk space
To access the Internet functionalities of Storm, you should have Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or Netscape Navigator 4.x or higher.
Documents and Manuals
For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Web: https://www.arturia.com/support
Web: https://www.arturia.com/support
Reviews
Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars.
(25 ratings)
Submitted May 2, 2004 by a customer from shaw.ca
Arturia Storm Customer Review
Need more synths. Rewire allows you to multiply Storm in sync (ie basic setup is 4 instruments + 3 effects machines, but you can added a couple more Storms simultaneously on 1 machine, plus record the master into a sample and multiply the tracks/voices infinitely). This is not as flexible as major pro sequencers such as Cubase ($$$$$$). Other have had problems using Storm as VST module, this will change with version 3.0, I imagine.
Sound
Arturia claims that some pros use this to generate some of their sounds. I'm no pro, but for home use and composing electronic music this package sounds very rich and rewarding. The loop-based synths are both easy to generate repeated sequences, but it is more difficult to emulate longer passages. In other words, this works out fine for traditional rock and especially Dance/Trance/Techno, maybe even hip-hop. You still need to be a musician to play good long passages via a Midi controlling keyboard (or other instrument sources), then use these passages in the samplers for other kinds of music (classical, jazz, longer solos, etc). For ease of learning, I give this a big fat ten, though. You will be making Superb tunes using the handy wizards in about 10 minutes! Moving towards more creative veins will take due time and talent, however. Hours of fun. The most distracting toy for the computer I have ever bought. Love it. Now I want to build a VST studio, also.
Quality
There… read more are a few bugs. This will likely change with version 3.0 this spring. (all upgrading is free)
Value
have you priced the other packages? At $75US, Storm is a bargain. A pro VST studio can involve $3000+ in software alone.
Manufacturer Support
quick response
Musical Style:
Jazz, electronica, classical piano, techno addict read less
Sound
Arturia claims that some pros use this to generate some of their sounds. I'm no pro, but for home use and composing electronic music this package sounds very rich and rewarding. The loop-based synths are both easy to generate repeated sequences, but it is more difficult to emulate longer passages. In other words, this works out fine for traditional rock and especially Dance/Trance/Techno, maybe even hip-hop. You still need to be a musician to play good long passages via a Midi controlling keyboard (or other instrument sources), then use these passages in the samplers for other kinds of music (classical, jazz, longer solos, etc). For ease of learning, I give this a big fat ten, though. You will be making Superb tunes using the handy wizards in about 10 minutes! Moving towards more creative veins will take due time and talent, however. Hours of fun. The most distracting toy for the computer I have ever bought. Love it. Now I want to build a VST studio, also.
Quality
There… read more are a few bugs. This will likely change with version 3.0 this spring. (all upgrading is free)
Value
have you priced the other packages? At $75US, Storm is a bargain. A pro VST studio can involve $3000+ in software alone.
Manufacturer Support
quick response
Musical Style:
Jazz, electronica, classical piano, techno addict read less
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