August, 2007 archive

Drums On Demand has released another volume of its My Co-Writer series. Rockin’ Blues Jam – yep, that’s what they called it – provides a back up band for blues and rock guitar jamming, plus some classic blues and rock chord progressions and song structures to write to.
Choose one of three formats for three levels [...]

Scarbee has released Black Bass, a sample library made for N.I. Kontakt 2.2.
Black Bass is produced and recorded by Scarbee director Thomas Hansen Skarbye himself and developed together with Kontakt script wizard Nils Liberg to create a highly playable instrument for musicians, composers, and producers looking for a unique bass sound.
“I wanted to record [...]

Innovative Music Systems has announced that the Ensemble Edition of their flagship product intelliScore is now available. IntelliScore Ensemble listens to prerecorded or live music (in WAV, MP3, WMA, or CD format) comprised of several different instruments and helps create a multiple-track MIDI (.mid) file containing the notes played, broken down by instrument. The MIDI [...]

This is sort of stupidtacular, but at least it can handle the Prodigy.
Here’s how it works:
A hard drive voice coil circuit is hacked to allow it to be directly connected to a stereo output. This allows audio to move the hard drive read write head. Mirrors are positioned on the center of the platter and [...]

Wizoo has released a new book on creating synths with SynthEdit. Visual VST/i-Programming—A Comprehensive Guide to Creating VST-FX and Instruments with SynthEdit offers users valuable help and background information for the creation of their own VST-Effects and VST-Instruments.
SynthEdit makes it possible for anyone to create their own synthesizer and effects, without previous knowledge of higher [...]

We’ve got more Chemical Brothers news for you – The Chemical Brothers plan to embark on their first proper US live tour in over 5 years this September.
Here are the announced dates:
Sept 21 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
Sept 22 Brooklyn, NY McCarren Pool
Sept 24 Chicago, IL [...]

Sinevibes has introduced a new sample library called Beat Constructor, a large collection of distinct and highly inspiring sounds for professional rhythm composition.
The library features over 500 samples which include everything the most demanding music-making lover needs: loads of kicks, snares, hats, drums, percussion, as well as a wide range of effects, hits, scratches, lo-fi [...]

Jayzen Sound Design has introduced Jayzen Acoustic Bass, a sample library, in Soundfont format, that captures that “old time sound” from a large, 1950’s era stand-up acoustic bass. According to Jayzen, it can be used to recreate those Bass sounds heard on Country and Rock albums of the late 1950’s, or for modern Acid Jazz [...]

Headph0ne Phet1sh is one of the stranger sites that we’ve come across recently. It’s a site devoted to “all manner of ladies wearing all kinds of headphones.”
They aren’t kidding, either. The site has collected hundreds, if not thousands of photos of woman in headphones. The site caters to all manners of headphone fetishists. Here’s a [...]

Check out the sweet synth setup that the Chemical Brothers use to create their quirky synthtronica. They’ve got a page devoted to their synth gear at their site.
We spotted a Doepfer modular, a Roland System 100, a Future-Retro Revolution, and a couple of EMS synths. Did we miss anything?