SignalToNoize has released an all-analog drum synth sample set – Analog Impact One. Features: Captured from a Modded Vermona DRM1 MKIII 8 analog instruments captured @ 24bit/96k Four individual velocity samples per instrument. Format = Mono 24/96 .wav It’s donationware – so download it, check it out and pay for it if you like it.… Read More Analog Drum Synth Sample Library
Sonic State’s Nick Batt takes a look at the $129.95/£79.95 Sonuus G2M Guitar to MIDI converter. He may not be a bionic guitarist, but he gives the G2M a workout. See his full review at the SS site. He gives it the ultimate praise, saying “I’m hoping they don’t want it back!”
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=19D3084F7F1D8833 This tutorial looks at creating glitch effects using Ableton Live 8, using slice and dice techniques, reversing, duplicates, volume edits, and transpose. The tutorial was created by DJ Vespers.
Daniel James’ new book Crafting Digital Media: Audacity, Blender, Drupal, GIMP, Scribus, & Other Open Source Tools is a guide to open source software for digital media. According to the publishers, it offers a “foundation course in photographic manipulation, illustration, animation, 3D modelling, publishing, recording audio and making music, DJ’ing, mixing and mastering audio CDs,… Read More Crafting Digital Media: Audacity, Blender, Drupal, GIMP, Scribus, & Other Open Source Tools
Bolder Sounds has released Toy and African Marimbas, a free sample library for Kontakt and EXS24. Here’s what they have to say about it: This FREE sound offering originated from a musician named Barry Higgins. Barry contacted me and wanted to “give something back” for all the Bolder FREE Sound offerings. He sent me a… Read More Free Sample Library For Kontakt, EXS24 Features Toy And African Marimbas
KVR has announced the winners of their 2009 Developer Challenge – and they are three great free audio applications to check out: FerricTDS by bootsie – a Windows VST effect Tape Dynamics Simulator plug-in, is the clear favourite in this year’s Challenge. HybridReverb2 by c.borss – In second place, and top placed Mac entry, is… Read More Three Fantastic Free Audio Effects
Ableton has released an update to Ableton Live 8, version 8.1. Here’s what Ableton has to say about the update: We just released the latest Live 8 version, Live 8.1. The main focus of that 8.1 version is the release for the “Max for Live” product. Additionally, Live 8.1 contains a bunch of bugfixes compared… Read More Ableton Live 8.1 Available Now
Cellular automata music on Novation Launchpad was uploaded by: hotchk155
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KV331 has introduced SynthMaster 2.0 is the sequel to their semi-modular software synthesizer and multi-effects plug-in SynthMaster.
http://vimeo.com/7955042 Ableton Live guru Tom Cosm put together this demo video of 10 simple but useful Ableton Live tips. See his site for details on these tips! See the earlier post, 10 Ableton Live Tips, too, for more Ableton Live tips from Cosm.
