Info at the listing...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Open Thread Monday
As you read this, I am likely hung over and flying home from the Kinetik Festival in Montreal. So feel free to post whatever you feel like (be nice). Are there any gear purchases you're looking forward to this year? Do you have an album to plug? Any questions or requests for topics you'd like to see covered here? Sound off!
Friday, May 15, 2009
Leaving on a Jet Plane...
No post today, as I am headed off to Montreal for the Kinetik Festival where my band will be performing Sunday night. I'll be coming back on Monday, so until then, have a great weekend!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
16 Free Gladiator 2 Patches from Waveformless
"Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" - Airplane
What does this have to do with anything? Nothing, really. I just love that movie. At any rate, today I am happy to offer you 16 free patches for Tone2's excellent Gladiator 2 softsynth.
Use them and distribute them as you like. All I ask is that you not try to sell them, and that if you upload them or pass them on to your friends, that you let them know about Waveformless. Enjoy!
GO GET THEM!
VST Cafe Releases Free Soundset for TAL Elek7ro
Via Rekkerd.orgVST Cafe has posted a free soundset for Togu Audio Line's excellent free softsynth TAL-Elek7ro called "Greeg Tal Elek7ro Progressive Soundset". Here's what they have to say about it:
"Great, freeware synth - TAL Elek7ro inspired my to create another soundbank. This time it's 38 patches - 24 progressive leads and 13 bass sounds. Greeg Tal Elek7ro Progressive Soundset is suited mostly for all kind of club music which means - progressive house, trance, elektro etc. I was focused mainly on creating some raw, powerful sounds because that's the nature of Elek7ro synth :)"
GO GET IT!
Ohm Force Releases Free "Cohmpost' Plug-in
Pretty much every music tech blog in the universe posted this a couple days ago, but in case you missed it, French insane asylum and plug-in developers Ohm Force have released an aggressive, free sound mangler called Cohmpost. (Be sure to check out the hilarious 'license agreement'.) It's available for both PC (VST) and Mac (AU & VST).GO GET IT!
Roland HS-60 on Ebay
It's pick-up only, but the price is really good. If you haven't heard of it before, the HS-60 was a consumer-oriented version of the Juno-106. It has built-in speakers, but you can use the headphone jack to bypass the speakers and plug it into your system. The sound engine is absolutely identical to the generally higher-priced 106.
Info at the listing...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Access Releases Virus OS 3
From the Access website:
"After an extensive public beta test phase OS3 is ready to roll. The new operating system for the entire Virus TI product line introduces new and existing effects such as additional distortion types, a tape delay and last but not least a ring shifter. The new version is recommended for every user and can be downloaded free of charge as of today. We also launched the next public beta cycle for OS version 3.0.2 which will focus on stability and performance. The new OS version is available for public testing today."
One You Might Have Missed: Steven Massey's TapeHead Medium
It's ironic, but now that pristine digital audio is the norm, most of us like to find ways to introduce some of the imperfections and artifacts of he old days. Tape saturation is one such effect and there is no denying that it adds a great punch and sense of weight to nearly anything it is applied to.
For many years, Steven Massey's TapeHead plug-in was only available as a high-end plug-in for ProTools, but a little while back, he put out a free AU version for Mac. I never saw this get much mention, so I thought I'd bring it up here. TapeHead Medium is absolutley free and replicates the ProTools plug-in at its middle setting. It uses the generic AU shell, so there is no fancy interface, but it's free, so why complain? Requires at least OS 10.4.
GO GET IT!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Spotting Accidentally Layered Regions in Logic
Part of what makes DAW programs so great is the simple ability to cut and paste parts of an arrangement into other parts of a song. It really helps speed up the workflow of building a song's structure and lets you experiment with it quickly and freely without a lot of effort.
If you're like me, however, you've probably accidentally pasted a region (or whole section of regions) over an existing region without realizing it once or twice. There are usually audio clues to point this out to you (either a sort of comb filtered/flanged sound to the layered section, or a dramatic increase in volume in the offending spot...), but Logic also gives you a subtle visual cue, which can help you spot these goofs quickly.
As in the above picture, the section that has other regions 'hidden' beneath it shows up in a slightly lighter shade of gray than normal. It's a simple thing, but little visual clues like this can be very helpful when you initially can't figure out why the volume of your bassline suddenly leaps during one section when you haven't written any volume automation.
Monday, May 11, 2009
This is So Stupid It Makes My Brain Hurt
Apparently the wonderful Synthtopia blog got an e-mail from Propellerheads to ask them to stop calling the company's new Record software a 'DAW'. You can read all the face-palmingly dumb details here. (Have a look at the comments section to and see if you can pick out the comment that was almost certainly written by a Propellerheads marketing person...)
Make no mistake, this is solely about marketing. Propellerheads know they can't compete with the likes of Ableton Live, Steinberg Cubase, Apple Logic, etc., so they want to pretend that this is somehow something different than just a DAW with a feature set that doesn't measure up to the competition.
Let me be clear that I have nothing against Propellerheads. I have fond memories of playing with Rebirth back in the day, I still use Recycle a lot, and although I didn't find Reason to be to my liking, I can understand why others do like it. I'd love to see Record develop into something exciting if for no other reason than that it will push the other DAW makers to innovate further, and that benefits us all. But I think they've got a long way to go before they achieve that and most of the chatter I've seen around the net today suggest a lot of other people do as well. I would hope the company would have a bit more respect for the intelligence of their potential customers and realize that if it walks like a DAW, and quacks like DAW, people are going to call it a DAW.
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