August, 2004 archive

MusicWorks Atlanta is now shipping The Guide to MIDI Orchestration, a reference for creating maximum orchestral realism with current technology.
Since its initial release in 1997, Paul Gilreath’s The Guide to MIDI Orchestration has been the premiere text on creating realistic emulations of a symphony orchestra using samplers and computer recording techniques. Recent years have seen [...]

The Pro Tone Springfield Fuzz is born of classic 1969 design with modern improvements in tone, usability and reliability. Designed to achieve the creamy fuzz from the early 70s, it puts everything from Clapton/Hendrix/Zeppelin-esque tube distortion to bluesy fuzz to the sludgy, throaty sounds at your fingertips.
The Springfield Fuzz features:

Durable aluminum housing with an enamel [...]

Peter “Peas” McEvilley’s new release Filters, on Kanpai Records, (Domo Music Group) is a sonic adventure ranging from downtempo to breakbeat. Each track contains a sample from legendary Japanese world music pioneer, Kitaro, which Peas seamlessly weaves into his original beats and melodies.
McEvilley, who has produced and written songs for Hollywood Records, Miramax, ABC and [...]

Manifold Labs has announced that its standalone plugin player Plugzilla now offers the PSPaudioware ProZilla Pack as part of its standard set of studio-grade instruments and effects.
“With ProZilla Pack, PSPaudioware has set the standard for high-end mastering plugin. Marrying this product-set with the power and portability of Plugzilla gives audio professionals a new level of [...]

Voxengo has introduced Transmodder, a transient-driven filtering system in PC VST plug-in format.
Transmodder allows the user to modify the audio material by means of dynamic filtering, in accordance with the transient content of the signal, delivering excellent sonic pronunciation and definition.
The core element of Transmodder is transient analyzer which processes narrow- or broad-band signal and [...]

Electro, the latest CD from Aalacho, re-examines the sounds of new wave and electro-pop, mixing synths, rock guitars and vocals.
Aalacho is made up of Nathan Scott, who handles synths, guitars, vocals and programming. He’s joined on this CD by guitarists Sam McIlvain, Chris “Reemus” Brown & Derek Armstrong; and vocalists Joe Randazzo, Trevor Hesse and [...]

Waves Ltd., developer of the first audio plug-in, has created a new class of limiter to follow the company’s L1 and L2 limiters, the L3 Peak Limiter.
The L3 Peak Limiter begins by using a linear-phase crossover with user-definable frequencies to divide the audio into five bands without phase distortion between bands. The signal then enters [...]

Precisionsound has released Kloo Mandolin, a new sampleset in HALion /Kontakt & SoundFont formats.
This unique Mandolin was built by the instrument maker Ulf Kloo in 1997 for the musician Leif Isebring. Kloo Mandolin has an extended range from G2 to D6. The release contains 489 individual 24 bit Mono WAV samples, 12 programs for HALion [...]

Apple’s GarageBand is one of the hottest new music applications in years, and it brings state-of-the-art music technology to a broader audience than ever before. It’s a fantastic tool for making music quickly and easily, and lets you do a lot using just your computer and the loops that come with the program. Other GarageBand [...]

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LOUD Technologies Inc., a developer and marketer of professional audio equipment under the Mackie, EAW and TAPCO brands, has announced a cross-licensing agreement with Echo Digital Audio. Under the terms of the agreement, LOUD Technologies will license FireWire audio technology from Echo and Echo will license Mackie-branded application and plug-in products from LOUD.
“This partnership leverages [...]