One of my favorite city’s streets has been recorded into 55 takes and 10 Ableton scenes. Download the City Traffic set over at Detunized. The set is 4.80€.
“City Traffic brings the daily noise of Berlin to the your library. The Pack contains recordings of main roads during the morning rush hour, when the trolley car rumbles over the rails and the trucks are roaring through the kettles. In between a bunch of honking mopeds and cars with broken exhaust pipes are fighting for their space. Commuter trains are crossing every minute, the omnibus arrives just in time and the long-distance trains pass the station with squeaking brakes. In the evening it is rainy and at least the suburb calms down a little bit.” – detunized.com
For more info: detunized.com
photo credit: cattleclasstraveler
This entry was written by , posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:11 am, filed under sounds and tagged Berlin, City Traffic, Detunized, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I’m pretty excited about this plug-in. While aimed at Filmakers NI’s new plug-in Damage has my inner Einstürzende Neubauten feeling happy. Beyond the sound set the plug-in has a lot of tricks up it’s sleeve such as an Rhythmic patters, AMP sequencer, filters, compression, saturation, trigger effects (yay), 3 mic mixer, etc… $339 and 30GB of space required will keep the amateurs away which is a plus. Be sure to check out the sound sources gallery on the NI site to see all the places they went to record all the klanging.
“Dark, aggressive, thrilling and threatening — DAMAGE is breathtaking cinematic percussion with a tense, epic edge. DAMAGE gives you 30 GB of drama, fusing industrial sounds and orchestral drums into a devastating electro-acoustic barrage. Percussive Kits provide more than 200 deeply sampled percussion sources, and over 500 single-shot elements, recorded in up to seven velocity layers and with up to nine round-robins per drum. Over 700 beat-sliced loops come as menu-style loop suites or as single loops for detailed tweaking. Even the most complex sounds are instantly usable, and it’s all in hair-raising, big-screen quality.” – Native Instruments
For more info: native-instruments.com/powered-by-kontakt/damage
This entry was written by , posted on November 1, 2011 at 8:30 pm, filed under plug-ins, sounds and tagged Damage, native instruments. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Every musician knows by now Soundcloud is a great way to share and explore music. I share my own tracks to Groups and often explore them. Here are 14 that are non-genre specific but more “pro-audio” based. What are your favorite Soundcloud groups? Have you started a Group of your own?
1. The Singer/Songwriter Group link
2. Analog or Modular Synthesizers link
3. Samples link
4. Sound Concepts and Experimental Feeds link
5. Hardware Samplers link
6. iOS Music link
7. Creative Commons link
8. iOS Musicians link
9. Hardware Synthesizers link
10. Circuit Bent link
11. Synth Samples link
12. The Sound of Airports, Planes, Trains & Train Stations link
13. Vocoder Love link
“SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss. It had the intention of allowing musicians to share recordings with each other, but later transformed into a full publishing tool which also allowed musicians to distribute their music tracks.” – Wikipedia
Follow me on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/thingstocome
This entry was written by , posted on October 25, 2011 at 5:44 am, filed under music, song writing, sounds and tagged SoundCloud. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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.
A few weeks ago I purchased a Hard Soft Synth 3i or HSS3i from Bleep Labs. It’s a creation of a Dutch man know as Gieskes. The unit creates analog video and audio. As you can hear in the recording I made above it’s quite interesting. You will know instantly if your the type of person who will like this thing. It’s very THX1138. For some more photos of what you get: click here. Expect to see some of the video output from the HSS3i in my live shows.
“The Hard Soft Synth 3i is an indescribable audio / video generator by noisemaker extraordinaire, Gieskes.” – Bleep Labs
For more info: gieskes.nl
This entry was written by , posted on October 8, 2011 at 5:42 am, filed under circuit bending, hardware, sounds and tagged Bleep Labs, Gieskes, HSS3i, video synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
In case you were wondering WE are the aliens.
“A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data. Modems can be used over any means of transmitting analog signals, from light emitting diodes to radio. The most familiar example is a voice band modem that turns the digital data of a personal computer into modulated electrical signals in the voice frequency range of a telephone channel. These signals can be transmitted over telephone lines and demodulated by another modem at the receiver side to recover the digital data.” – Wikipedia
photo credit: Koluso DX
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This entry was written by , posted on June 29, 2011 at 3:48 pm, filed under sounds and tagged Modem. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Blood and Guts Sound Library Preview CRFX-013 by crussom
477 samples of Blood and Guts for $50. These were created using pumpkins, yogurt and other gut like sounding products. I wonder how much more this sample library would be worth if they used really living humans?
“Recorded and produced in collaboration with Sound Designer Rob King, this is a collection of gore, stabbing, and impact sounds. Use these sounds as source effects to layer into your fight scenes, zombie feasts, dismemberments, autopsies, or anywhere else you might need to add a little bit of blood, guts, flesh ripping, or bone breaking sounds.” – chuckrussomfx.com
photo credit: g000nz0
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This entry was written by , posted on May 3, 2011 at 4:17 am, filed under sounds and tagged blood, guts, sample library, samples. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Dither of course. The video above shows you why. It’s been a while since my last album so in preparing the files for the new baby I realized I need to get things from 32bit to 16bit. As per some Gearslutz advice I’m going with the Pow-r type.
“Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as “banding” in images. Dither is routinely used in processing of both digital audio and digital video data, and is often one of the last stages of audio production to compact disc.” – Wikipedia
For more info: wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither
This entry was written by , posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:33 pm, filed under sounds and tagged Dither, pow-r. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
80′s awesome wonderful! In England in the summertime…
“Introducing the Fairlight App for iPhone & iPad, available from the Apple App Store in March 2011. Over 30 years since the original Fairlight CMI first changed the way we make music, we are proud to present the iPhone & iPad Apps, giving you the experience of a CMI Series IIx in the palm of your hand, complete with the full Series IIx factory library and expandable to include the best of the Series III library and even your own samples. Marvel at the then revolutionary Page R step sequencer, gasp at the three dimensional waveforms in Page D and bask in the wonder of some of the most famous sounds of the Eighties! The sound track of this video is also one of the app’s built-in demos. ‘Octagonalle’ was created using original Series II library sounds on the Fairlight iPad app by producer/composer Justin Shave. Shave confronted his first CMI in 2006 when he co-produced Darren Hayes’ album “This Delicate Thing We’ve Made.” Darren had decided that the Fairlight was the only instrument which could deliver the ’80s sensibility he was seeking, bought one on eBay, and handed it to Shave to tame. The rest is history.” – FairlightInstruments
Get the App: itunes.apple.com/us/app/fairlight/
This entry was written by , posted on March 18, 2011 at 5:19 am, filed under iPad, iPhone, sounds and tagged Fairlight, iOS. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s a trio for Tuesday. Three new interesting pro-audio related products. Number one we have Steinberg LoopMash. LoopMash mangles four loops. It’s an iPhone App. I grabbed it and it has a pretty cool faux 3D swipe to different screen effect worth checking out. Years after abandoning Cubase I’m using a Steinberg product again. Number two is Mike. It’s a microphone from Apogee that goes directing into your iOS device. It’s from Apogee so it deserves mention. Convenience and AD/DA conversion wise it should be a winner however I’m all about high end mic pres and Mike can’t use one. Number three we have SuperAnalog808 a Roland TR-808 sample pack from Goldbaby designed for Loopmasters. If you don’t own a real 808 or Acidlab Miami then samples are your friend. Goldbaby does them right and there’s a million suble differences between 808s and ways to record them so another sample set is always welcome.
For more info: LoopMash, Mike, SuperAnalog808
This entry was written by , posted on March 15, 2011 at 2:35 am, filed under drum machine, hardware, iPad, iPhone, sounds and tagged Apogee, drum machine, iOS, iPad, iPhone, LoopMash, microphone, Roland TR-808, samples, Steinberg. 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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