AfroDJMac is a songwriter and guitarist/electronic musician from New York. Besides his interesting name he creates free and very inexpensive Ableton Live Racks. Some Racks include “Brostep” inspired by the Jersey Shore, RapMan (Casio VL-1, Teenage Engineering OP-1), Gameboy Glitches and Synth, Ensoniq SQ-80, Glitched Piano, Glitch Machine, Nu Wave Synth (sounds from his oven!) and about 20 more so far. Any Live user should give his website a good look over!
“Futuristic, yet nostalgic. New York’s AfroDJMac is a live electronic musician, drawing influence from the genres of indie garage rock, classic rock, video game music, and modern electronica.” – afrodjmac.com
For more info: afrodjmac.com
This entry was written by , posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:19 am, filed under Ableton Live, plug-ins, sounds and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, AfroDJMac, Jersey Shore, oven, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
French company Arturia will release a software recreation of the Oberheim SEM on October 25th. The original SEM’s trick was a 2-pole multimode filter which along with low-pass had high-pass, band-pass and band-reject settings. This gave the unit some wicked sharp sounds. For a while the SEM sound could only be had if you hit eBay. Then Tom Oberheim followed in Bob Moog and Dave Smith’s footsteps and got things going again. I have to mention my favorite SEM sounding synth the Analogue Solutions Telemark which I had a chance to play with recently. It adds a few tricks to the mix including in my opinion a very important feature: noise. It’s good to see Arturia back in the game emulating classic synths because I think it’s what they do best. It’s going to be tough for them to get the sharp filters right on the SEM. That said, the plug-ins are a good stepping stone to get people into hardware or for when you need SEM on an airplane, beach, hotel room, etc… They sure look very pretty too!
“After years without any addition to their Synthesizer Anthology series, Arturia has announced that it will soon bring back to life in software format one of the world’s most sough-after synthesizers. The Oberheim SEM V accurately emulates the famous sound and interface of the original Synthesizer Expander Module introduced by Oberheim Electronics in 1974. Faithfully reproducing the tone, waveshapes, multi-mode 12dB/octave filter and other detailed characteristics, the Oberheim SEM V also brings the benefits of polyphony, MIDI control, arpeggiation and some innovative functionalities such as the 8-voice programmer, or the advanced keyboard follow.” -kvraudio.com
For more info: arturia.com, tomoberheim.com and analoguesolutions.org.uk/v2
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This entry was written by , posted on October 9, 2011 at 6:52 am, filed under plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged Analogue Solutions, Arturia, filter, hardware, Oberheim, SEM, synthesizer, Telemark, Tom Oberheim. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Celemony has posted a bunch of well produced Melodyne tutorials. I do use Melodyne on a track here and there. I didn’t know I should split off consanants to help avoid artifacts. That alone was worth the view.
“In this video you will learn how to get the most out of your vocal tracks with a few editing tips and tricks in Melodyne.”
View more tutorials: youtube.com/user/celemonysoftware
This entry was written by , posted on October 7, 2011 at 3:58 pm, filed under plug-ins, song writing and tagged Celemony, Melodyne, vocals. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
When I first got into softsynths Linplug’s products were some of my favorites. I have created some wonderful songs using Albino. Curios what they have been up to I went over to Linplug’s website and found they are about to release a new device called Relectro. I’m not sure exactly what it does. Is it a sample manipulator? I couldn’t find any YouTube demos so we will have to wait a few days/weeks for it’s release to really get into it.
“It’s no delay. no eq. compressor. no filter and no pitch shifter. But it does all that on a per wave cyle basis. Fire up some of the most boring, overused, outdated drums you have and relectro them into something completely different.” – Linplug.com
For more info: linplug.com/Instruments/relectro/relectro.htm
This entry was written by , posted on September 8, 2011 at 3:55 am, filed under plug-ins and tagged Linplug, Relectro. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
The Gforce Software impOSCar software synthesizer has been updated to version 2. Some of the new stuff includes a Ring Modulator, New Filter Types with Drive, Chord Memory and more. Far more interesting (to me anyway) is the insane hardware controller for it from Touch Digital Controllers. Just look at that image above! It’s over 1k so you have to ask yourself if you would rather have a real analog synth.
“101 control inputs comprising; 83 knobs, 7 led lit buttons, 2 punch in/out switches and 9 momentary buttons with 9 linked led, midi in/out led, MIDI-in and 128 channel simultaneous USB and MIDI out processor. The 101 panel controls are all voltage controlled components so give the player the highest possible resolution into the digital domain. Beautiful custom made aluminium knobs – old school vibe!” – touchdigitalcontrollers.co.uk
For more info: gforcesoftware.com and touchdigitalcontrollers.co.uk
This entry was written by , posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:05 am, filed under hardware, plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged controller, impOSCar, impOSCar 2, synthesizer, Touch Digital Controllers. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I use panning and pan plug-ins for numerous tricks in my music. I love the 80s UI in Audio Damage’s Panstaion. It’s a pseudo recreation of the Drawmer M500. $39.
“Panstation is, without question, the most sophisticated autopanner plug-in available. We started with a loose model of the venerable Drawmer M500′s panning engine, then added the counting features from the Audio & Design PanScan (probably the most famous vintage autopanner, and the “secret weapon” of many well-known producers.) The result is an autopanner plug-in that is second to none in both feature set and sound.” – audiodamage.com
For more info: audiodamage.com
This entry was written by , posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:50 am, filed under plug-ins and tagged Audio Damage, panning, Panstation. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
First look at the Turnado by Sugar Bytes from Richard Devine on Vimeo.
Sugar-Bytes has released Turnado. As someone who has been making music since the early 90s to be able to mangle stuff so easily always blows my mind. There’s a demo version so go crazy. $180 to own it.
“With its instantaneous, one-knob, multi-parameter modulation features, Turnado will lay waste to the audio landscape. Giving you the power to crunch, chop, twist, mash and elevate your music to new levels, Turnado will have you creating wicked new sounds that will blow any crowd away.” – sugar-bytes.de
For more info: sugar-bytes.de/content/products/Turnado
This entry was written by , posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:19 pm, filed under plug-ins and tagged effects, plug-in, Sugar Bytes, Turnado. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
My favorite effect is a toss up between Analog Tape Echo and Spring Reverb. The new Nomad Factory Echoes plug-in emulates some classic Tape Echo boxes. I have a Boss DM100 (not actual Tape) and often use Fabfilter’s Timeless both which I highly recommend. I love the detuning effects you can achieve as you mess with the delay time.
“ECHOES faithfully models the greatest delay effects of all time, PLX-1 based on* Echoplex® 1, PLX-3 based on Echoplex 3, OILCAN based on Tel-Ray® Oilcan Delay, EHX-DM based on Electro Harmonix® Deluxe Memory Man, and ADM-2 based on Boss® DM-2 Analog Delay.” – nomadfactory.com
For more info: nomadfactory.com/echoes
This entry was written by , posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:36 am, filed under plug-ins and tagged Boss DM100, delay, Echoes, Fabfilter Timeless, Nomad Factory, plug-in, Tape Echo. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Sugar Bytes has announced Turnado. I used to spend quite a lot of time mapping several effect paramaters to one single knob. Take that concept and have all your paramaters increase in strength from 0 to 100 and back to off and I think you can start to get the idea of Turuado. Although the video above is in German you can get a good idea of what this thing can do. Available this summer.
“The idea is simple: Turn a knob and the effect is on. Turn the knob further and effect parameters start to move and modulations start to apply. Turn the knob down and the effect is off. This one-knob-action fits perfectly for all kinds of studio or stage situation where you bang your midi controller creating wicked breaks to let the crowd dance even harder. While each effect provides one knob to control it, underneath that easy cover you find effect parameters and modulation engines to be controlled by the main knob in all thinkable ways, which makes loading an effect just the starting point of the way you can go with it. The powerful “Dictator” mode allows you to animate all main knobs and run that animation with just one fader. This way you easily create and control complex effect layerings and arrangements in a new and inspiring way.” – sugar-bytes.de
For more info: sugar-bytes.de/Turnado
This entry was written by , posted on April 16, 2011 at 2:22 pm, filed under plug-ins and tagged effect, plug-in, Sugar Bytes, Turuado. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Another piece of software to help me build my audio time machine has been announced at Musikmesse 2011. Universal Audio and Lexicon are bringing the 224 to the UAD-1 platform. Wash the snare and spray your hair.
“The result of UA’s acclaimed modeling expertise, the Lexicon 224 plug-in for UAD-2 precisely captures all eight reverb programs available in original 224 firmware version 4.4, including every tunable parameter, with unique fader-style controls — inviting easy experimentation and sonic exploration. In UA’s exhaustive modeling tradition, the Lexicon 224 emulation also incorporates the original unit’s input transformers and early AD/DA converters — nailing the entire signal path right down to the last detail.” – sonicstate.com
For more info: uaudio.com
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This entry was written by , posted on April 6, 2011 at 3:33 am, filed under plug-ins and tagged Lexicon, plug-in, reverb Lexicon 224, UAD-1 Universal Audio. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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