How to Create Orchestral Christmas Music

In this pair of timely tutorials, Dave Bode of Audiotuts+ takes a look at creating orchestral Christmas music arrangements on your computer. In the first video, above, Bode looks at instrumentation and orchestration to see how they effect the overall tone of the music. 

SquareSynth 8-Bit Style Synth Updated With AudioBus

Developer James Navarro let us know that he’s updated SquareSynth, an 8-bit style software synthesizer, based on the NES, adding AudioBus and more. SquareSynth is a table-based synthesizer, and NES simulator for iOS, based on old-school chiptune trackers. Using the tables you can create sounds similar to 8-bit game consoles, and computers.