Electronic Musician has an interesting article penned by Dennis Miller that looks at 8 tools for turning photographs into audio and manipulating audio visually: Eerybody knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. But did you know that a picture can also buy you the frequencies of a thousand oscillators? Using any of several modern music… Read More 8 Ways To Turn Photographs Into Audio
Bill Holland demos Sugar Bytes WOW Filter
Photosounder is a one-of-a-kind image-sound editing program that can open images and sounds indiscriminately, treat and processes them as images, and synthesize them as sounds. Sounds, once turned into images, can be powerfully modified to achieve effects and results that couldn’t be obtained in any other way, while images of all sorts reveal the infinite… Read More New Windows App Brings New Meaning To Photo Synthesis
Audio Impressions will be demonstrating the first official release version of their 70 piece DVZ Strings 2.0 sample library at The NAMM Show 2009 in Anaheim, CA. Description: DVZ Strings 2.0 allows you to produce compositions in real time with the real-world balance of live musicians that will translate directly to accurate MIDI mock-ups as… Read More Audio Impressions DVZ Strings 2.0
Line 6 has announced POD Farm and POD Farm Platinum, two software plug-ins based on their POD amp simulation technology. POD Farm Platinum provides the sounds of amps and effects integral to a pro-sounding recording, from vintage essentials to modern monsters. It includes: 78 guitar amp and 24 guitar cab models 28 bass amp and 22… Read More Line 6 Turns POD Amp Simulators Into Plug-Ins: POD Farm And POD Farm Platinum
zplane.development has released version 1.5 of vielklang, its audio harmonization instrument. The utilization of voice leading and harmony progression models allows vielklang to create harmony parts in a more musical way than traditional harmony processors and makes it a versatile and creative tool for musicians, songwriters and producers. The new version adds the following features: … Read More vielklang Automatic Harmony Plugin Updated
Rockifone’s Easy Recorder (App Store link) is a free iPhone audio recorder. Easy Recorder lets you record audio at three quality levels and is a no brainer to record with. To sync recordings, Easy Recorder has a built-in Web server that runs over WiFi. This isn’t an elegant solution, but it works fine. If you’re an iPhone user,… Read More Free iPhone Audio Recorder
This demo video introduces SONAR 8’s TS64-Transient Shaper and the effects it has on various instrument loops.
This video features Thomas Dolby’s take on the Muse Research Receptor 2 Pro and the Receptor 2 Pro Max. According to Muse: These new models of Receptor are faster, smarter, and better in all respects than the previous generation. They feature entirely new computational engines including incredibly fast dual-core processors that offer twice the power… Read More Thomas Dolby On the Muse Research Receptor
i\ Rob Hensley’s Audio Scope (App Store link) is a $.99 iPhone app that uses the remote i/o audio unit for handling audio input and output. The application can display the input audio in one of the forms, a regular time domain waveform, a frequency domain waveform (computed by performing a fast fourier transform on… Read More iPhone Audio Scope
