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Air-Drum into a DAW or Sampler MAC PC

Aerodrums has announced that its air-drumming instrument can now be used to sequence drums in Digital Audio Workstations, or to trigger drum samplers, via MIDI.

Aerodrums has announced that its air-drumming instrument can now be used to sequence drums in Digital Audio Workstations, or to trigger drum samplers, via MIDI.

Aerodrums was launched at the NAMM show in January to serve as a substitute to a drum kit when there are space or noise constraints.

“I had to stop drumming when I went to college because of noise and lack of space. Now I can carry Aerodrums in my shoulder bag and my neighbors can’t hear me drum when I wear headphones.” said Richard Lee, co-inventor of Aerodrums.

The instrument provides musical expressiveness on par with acoustic or electronic drum kits. It works by observing the drummer’s gestures using a high speed camera connected to a computer.

“With Aerodrums you can record your drumming into a DAW without the need to mic a kit or setup edrums” said Yann Morvan, director of Aerodrums.

Aerodrums’ output includes accurate note velocity, continuous hi-hat openness and more. Since MIDI events can be routed in software from the Aerodrums program to the DAW or sampler, there is no additional hardware related latency.

Aerodrums is an air-drumming instrument. It runs on your computer and understands your drumming intent by watching you drum through a high speed camera. Aerodrums fits in a backpack with your laptop, feels and sounds as good as a real drum kit, can be silent to others around you, and is affordable. Here is a teaser video illustrating some of Aerodrums’ advantages:

Aerodrums is available Amazon.com for $160. You will also need a Sony Playstation 3 Eye camera to run Aerodrums

Aerodrums Air Drumming Percussion Instrument

The camera is available on Amazon for between $6 and $30:

PlayStation Eye

Ukulele Sample Library for NI Kontakt & EXS 24 First Look Video

The Wavesfactory Ukulele Bundle is the ultimate sample library bundle for writing ukulele music! The bundle contains two powerful and versatile libraries for Kontakt – “Ukulele Strum” (also for EXS24) and “Ukulele Finger” which are over 1.3GB in total!

Ukulele Strum is divided in 5 octaves – with the right hand you play downstrokes and with the left hand you play upstrokes. Major and minor chords were recorded in upstrokes and downstrokes (5 velocity layers and 3 round robins), along with fret noises, open strings and mutes. Also included are midi files with predefined patterns to use in your track, or to help build your own ones.

Ukulele Finger sampled individual notes of a ukulele played with fingers (4 velocity layers and 3 round robins). All notes have been sampled (no pitch shifting), with fret and release noises sampled also to provide more realism.

If you want to add ukulele to your tracks, you need this bundle! (Full version of Kontakt 3.5 or higher required – won’t work with Kontakt Player!)

Get both here from VST Buzz ( Limited Time )

Wavesfactory Site Ukulele Finger

Wavesfactory Strum Ukuele Finger

Sweet Remix of The iPhone Ringtone [Video]

There have been a lot of remixes of the iconic iPhone ringtone over the years, and this one from itsMetroGnome may be the best.

Download the track here.

Naked Techno Sample Library – Free Samples – EXS24 Maschine, Live, & More

Niche Audio are proud to present “Naked Techno” – an authentic collection of 15 professionally engineered, mixed and produced Techno kits inspired by three decades of the best melodic Detroit and European Techno.
Each Kit has been created from scratch in both Maschine and Ableton Live formats to maximize the use of onboard effects, compression and usability, creating some of the most flexible and inspiring expansions for these DAW’s yet to be heard.

Each Kit has been created from scratch in both Maschine and Ableton Live formats to maximize the use of onboard effects, compression and usability, creating some of the most flexible and inspiring expansions for these DAW’s yet to be heard.

Expect to find 13 Kits with 16 samples in each, including Cool processed Drums, Angular Percussion, Dark and Atmospheric Pads and Chords, Subsonic Basses and Ethereal FX, combining to create a unique and involving sound palette which inspires and excites.

Also included are 2 additional special kits which feature exquisite Bass and Special Fx samples for additional sample layering.

Project files are included with patterns for each kit demonstrating the balance and combination of sounds that can be achieved, and to act as a starting point for your productions.

Each Kit features subtle mix and fx customization to maximize its playability whilst maintaining its balance in the mix and will work perfectly with other external ingredients to create a fantastic track.

Inspiration for Naked Techno includes artists and labels such as Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Larry Heard, Trentemoller, Adam Beyer and Carl Craig, R+S, Redplanet, UR, Bellboy, Music Man, Soma, Aquatrax etc.

All samples and patterns are 100% royalty free and can be used in your music production legally if you have bought an original copy of the content.

Download Demo Here

Logic Pro Tutorial 10 Mixing Essentials [Video]

Point Blank is based in London, the home of electronic music, and has been voted ‘Best Music Production and DJ School’ by DJ Mag. You can learn Ableton Live or Logic Pro via online courses or in thier state-of-the-art studios in Hoxton. More information here :: http://www.pointblanklondon.com

Head of School JC Concato takes you through 10 mix concepts that will improve your tracks and productions.

Panipulator 2 Free Plugin Check How Your Mixes Will Translate to Different Systems

Even though you spent considerable time and effort getting your mix to sound amazing on your monitors, there is still one very important question: What will it sound like playing at a theme park? or at the dentists office? or on your old radio? What if they wired one of the speakers backwards?

As much as we’d like to think that everyone is listening our music in stereo, the truth is that many many people are listening in less than ideal environments. Panipulator lets you hear what your mix will sound like in those environments so you can be sure that your mixes will translate across all systems.

What will your mix sound like summed to mono? Flip a switch to find out. What if someone wires their system so that they can only hear the left channel? Flip a switch to hear what that sounds like. What if they reverse the wiring on one of their speakers? Flip a switch to find out to see how that will affect your song. These are all common scenarios, and the last thing you want to do is find out is that your mom’s voice, that you thought was buried in the mix, pops out when played over the loudspeakers at Nordstrom.

Panipulator will barely make a dent in your CPU usage, so there is no reason that this plugin should not be a default on every single song you mix.

Download For Free Here

Samplephonics release free “Leeds Town Hall Organ” for Kontakt, Ableton Sampler, EXS24 and Reason NN-XT

Samplephonics have released a free virtual instrument containing multi sampled sounds from the huge organ based in Leeds Town Hall, United Kingdom.

It comes with 3.2GB of sounds, 6 organ presets with separately sampled pedal and key presets and multiple round robin layers.

This release is to mark a new imprint of Samplephonics known as Sonas, who will be releasing a range of virtual acoustic instruments over the next few months.

Samplephonics have released a free virtual instrument containing multi sampled sounds from the huge organ based in Leeds Town Hall, United Kingdom.

It comes with 3.2GB of sounds, 6 organ presets with separately sampled pedal and key presets and multiple round robin layers.

This release is to mark a new imprint of Samplephonics known as Sonas, who will be releasing a range of virtual acoustic instruments over the next few months.

Leeds Town Hall Organ is available for Kontakt, Ableton Sampler, EXS24 and Reason NN-XT.

Plugin Boutique Big Kick – Kick Drum Design Plugin Mac PC

PluginBoutique – Loopmasters’ sister site selling music software – has just released their first proprietary plugin, “Big Kick”. Created in collaboration with Credland Audio, Big Kick was Developed to help producers make kick drum design easy and enjoyable and includes a set of features to help them get results quickly. With ease of use in mind, the interface is simple to grasp and controls are limited only to those useful in achieving the plugin’s purpose of producing great drum sounds.

PluginBoutique (www.pluginboutique.com ) – Loopmasters’ sister site selling music software – has just released their first proprietary plugin, “Big Kick”. Created in collaboration with Credland Audio, Big Kick was Developed to help producers make kick drum design easy and enjoyable and includes a set of features to help them get results quickly. With ease of use in mind, the interface is simple to grasp and controls are limited only to those useful in achieving the plugin’s purpose of producing great drum sounds.

http://youtu.be/61fP15E1uk8

Key Features of the plugin include the following:

·         Kick drum synthesis – can replicate the majority of today’s and yesterday’s kick sounds*
·         Factory library includes 300 attack types and 110 presets*
·         Tuned kick drums
·         Easily integrates with your existing sample libraries
·         Easier to use than any previous kick drum design tool
·         Drag-and-drop sample creation
·         Auto-play mode for instant start and jamming
·         No-phase-shift free-sound-shaping Overdrive
·         High pass filter (again, phase-shift-free): avoid nasty surprises in the bottom end.

*Preset designers include Audialize, Cutline, Daniel Daly, D-Product, Freemasons, Jamie Anderson, Jim Credland, John Lead, Kris O’Neil, Niche Audio, Rasmus Faber and Timo Garcia. With some extra input from Nick Sentience.

“Big Kick” is available for both Mac and PC and is available in both 32 and 64bit formats.

Full product details available HERE

EZdrummer 2 Product Preview [Videos]

Toontrack’s Ezdrummer 2 has been a big hit with musicians who want a simple way of creating high-quality rhythm tracks for their productions, so it comes as no surprise that the company has now announced version 2.

Said to be a completely new program, this brings new features for songwriting, a new user interface, a remodelled audio engine, a new mixer with effects chains, two new sound libraries and a selection of percussion sounds.

Check out these preview videos:

Toontrack has also updated its range of EZX expansion libraries for use with EZdrummer 2. Each one now has new effects chains and optimised graphics.

You can find out more about EZdrummer 2 on the Toontrack website. It’ll be available on 6 May at a list price of $179/€139. Upgrades will cost $99/€79

Convert CAF Apple Loops to Wav & AIFF Files to Use in Other DAWS

Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro automatically converts Apple Loops installed with Logic Pro 9 and X to uncompressed audio formats (aiff and wave).

Audio Helper Project has released Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro v1.0.2 on the Mac App Store.