Monthly archives: July 2008
Eastwest August special: Symphonic Choirs
The Eastwest August special offer is Symphonic Choirs. The special offer sale price for August is $395.00, a $200 saving. Note that Symphonic Choirs is powered by NI Kompakt, which is not Mac Intel compatible. Mac Intel users will need to run Symphonic Choirs in Kontakt 2.2 or higher (not included). Eastwest
School of shit: crappy pappy?
In my opinion, shit is an important element in a lot of music. With todays technology bedroom musicians are now able to make pretty recordings, something that in the past more or less was restricted to the studios. But what if we don’t want pretty? You’re not going to sound evil, brutal, ugly or fucked [...]
VirSyn previews PRISM – the pitch designer, and makes you an offer
The new Take Five FX bundle contains the five FX plugins BARK, MATRIX, REFLECT, TDESIGN and VTAPE. If you buy TakeFive FX before July 31st, 2008 you will get VirSyns next FX plug-in for free. “Oh yeah? So whatcha bringin’ dude?”, PRISM – the pitch designer (pictured above). It looks like it bears resemblance to [...]
Off Tools: Ableton Live Lite
Most Pro Tools users probably have Live Lite since it’s been shipping with Pro Tools systems for quite some time now. Personally I’ve been a Live user of both the full version and the Lite version since version 2. It’s been a while since I fired up Live but a while back I decided to [...]
Live lately
For the last two or three weeks I’ve started using Ableton Live extensively again. I’ve always been a fan of it, but the amount of use it gets from me has always varied, depending on mood, what work I currently do and what kind of spiritual being currently resides in me. I’ll post about my [...]
RTAS version of Satellite released
Samplebase has announced that their sample-synth players Satellite (free) and SatellitePro are now both available in RTAS. I’ll give it a go next week. If you try it out, let us know what you think. Samplebase
Ebay + Myspace + Audio production = MyMusicSession.com
A new website, called MyMusicSession has been launched. It’s perhaps best described as a blend between Ebay and Myspace but dedicated to online music and audio production. MyMusicSession is a place to sell your work, yourself and your soul, in other words, advertise yourself as a musician, songwriter, producer or whatever your field in audio [...]
Native Instruments releases free feature updates for Traktor 3 and Traktor Scratch
Native Instruments just released TRAKTOR 3.4 and TRAKTOR SCRATCH 1.3, free software updates that brings some news to the two DJ products.
5.1 Music says “market demands launch of first music library in surround”
And who am I to argue? 5.1 Music recently launched what they claim to be the first production music library fully available in both surround and stereo.
Learn about studio acoustics and monitors – comic book style!
M-Audio has launched a new comic book styled guide to project studios. The first part deals with acoustics and studio monitors. I guess the nerd woke within me, because I was a little disappointed to see that there wasn’t more of the comic book styled drawings! Go grab it here at M-Audios website (PDF)
