Its developer, Klevgränd Produktion, says that it features adaptive distortion algorithms and is suitable for use on any kind of material. What’s more, its interface suggests that it’s pretty easy to use.
SquashIt multiband distortion released for Mac ( Free ) and iPad
Its developer, Klevgränd Produktion, says that it features adaptive distortion algorithms and is suitable for use on any kind of material. What’s more, its interface suggests that it’s pretty easy to use.
Check out the video above to find out more. The Mac AU version of SquashIt can be downloaded for free from the Klevgränd Produktion website, while the iPad app (which offers Inter App Audio compatibility) can be yours for £0.69/$0.99 on the Apple App Store.
UltraChannel™ is Eventide’s new 64-bit native channel strip plug-in for AU, VST, and AAX64 for Mac and PC featuring micro pitch functionality from our flagship H8000, stereo delays with variable feedback paths, plus two stages of compression, gating, and five bands of parametric EQ. UltraChannel is available as a free download through midnight July 8, 2014, after which it will cost $249.
UltraChannel™ is Eventide’s new 64-bit native channel strip plug-in for AU, VST, and AAX64 for Mac and PC featuring micro pitch functionality from our flagship H8000, stereo delays with variable feedback paths, plus two stages of compression, gating, and five bands of parametric EQ. UltraChannel is available as a free download through midnight July 8, 2014, after which it will cost $249.
UltraChannel features a pair of dynamics processors: the O-Pressor™, capable of extreme compression (this is the compressor section of the Omnipressor®) and a conventional compressor with de-essing and side-chain capability.
UltraChannel™ also offers Soft-Saturation, and Transformer emulation which recreates transformer core saturation. This feature adds harmonics to low frequency material while remaining relatively transparent to the rest of signal. While relatively subtle, in aggregate, Transformer can bring life to otherwise dull mixes and help glue disparate sound sources together.
FlexiPath™ routing allows drag and drop for reordering the signal path of the top level components (O-Pressor, compressor/de-esser, EQ, Gate).
UltraChannel includes a variety of factory presets tailored to signal sources such as guitar, bass, kick drum, snare, piano, strings, synths and vocals. A number of the presets were created by Eventide artists.
Eventide UltraChannel does not require you to own or use an iLok dongle, but the iLok License Manager and an ilok.com account are required to use the plugin.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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