Gustavo Bravetti has put together a free, exclusive FM8 drum kit in Ableton Live for CDM readers. More on the kit, FM8, and how to make the most of it, plus our download, at the Kore@CDM NI minisite:
Free Exclusive Download: FM8 Drum Kit for Ableton Live from Gustavo Bravetti
Beatmatch.info just released 4 new loop libraries. More than 100 premium loops to use in your music software.
“Mnml data Vol.3”, “GTL Vol.3”, “Dubstep Vol.2” and first part of completely new series “Future Hip-Hop Vol 1”.
The site is currently hosting almost 400 premium loops in Wav and Aiff file formats ready to use in your tracks.
All loops are available for free for non-commercial use at www.beatmatch.info
Futurepop duo Informatik, featuring Da5id Din and Tyler Newman (Battery Cage), has announced that its new album, Beyond, will be released September 9 on Metropolis Records. The 10-track album is the project’s fifth full-length release, and its first since 2004.
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Reaktor is a great piece of software but somehow somewhat forgotten in the music production scene, at least to my knowledge. I am very fond of my Reaktor and today I stumbled over something that might light things up a little on the Reaktor front, sure hope I am right, hehe
Anyone who uses Native Instruments Reaktor should prepare for a positive reaction because Musicrow has just the thing for you: Golden Ensembles 2. It’s a huge pack of 38 ensembles for use with Reaktor 5.
These ensembles include synthesizers, effects and creative audio tools, and all of those include hundreds of presets. The main event in this package has to be Musicrow’s new mega-synth Cobra, but it’s stacked up nicely with instruments like Orpheus 2, Oberline, Piano Magic, Trancoid and more. Effects include vintage processor emulators such as Vintage Chorus and Plate Reverb, and sound design tools include White FX and Executer, a boldly named plugin coming from Haifa.
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QuikQuak has announced the release of Fusion Field, an easy to use diffusion reverb that QuikQuak has created in response to requests for a RaySpace ‘light’ and a version of Glass Viper’s own diffusion reverb.
Features :
– A clean stereo reverb, with an even decay.
– High quality standards, with low CPU resources.
– Fast editing, for that quick grab effect.
– A single impulse source quickly gathers a complex diffusion.
– Intuitively linked Decay and Spread dials.
– Clear reflected sound, with a fast diffusion build up.
– Great for adding sheen to vocals, strings and ambiences.
– Plain visual feedback of filters.
– Zero latency.
– Completely reworked and enhanced diffusion reverb, based on RaySpace and Glass Viper.
Removing the character of uneven early reflections and various room shapes leaves the sound pure, so it’s able to hold the sound in time. Simply enhancing the sound image without obtrusive additional tones allows for more space in the mix.
While not using traditional all-pass filters, Fusion Field gathers reflections immediately, using unique ‘leaky’ feedback technology. This has the accuracy of an intensive frequency based algorithm, with the movement and zero latency of time based calculations. It also has relatively low CPU usage for such a high quality sound.
Try the demo yourself and choose the “Fusion Field Full” preset, this gives the longest decay and no filtering.
If you send a short sound through the plug-in you will hear the sound as though frozen in the air, and decay perfectly smoothly in about two minutes.
Superior Drummer® 2.0 has been re-developed for optimized use with e-drums with more effective use of sample layers and much improved loading times. It will include custom MIDI played by Nir Z accessed through the all new customized MIDI engine and arranger EZplayer® pro, it will feature stand alone capacity through Toontrack solo. From premium UK based software developer Sonalksis Superior Drummer® 2.0 has been fitted with, 5-band EQ, high and low pass filter, compressor, gate and transient designer filters.
The new interface is reminiscent of EZdrummer® with its simple handling and lay out but gives its user layer upon layer of in depth features to create the ultimate drum track.
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All new construction windows with features such as: • ADSR • X-pads – Load instruments from any Toontrack® library to add positions or to double instruments on the position of your choice. • The ability to read and combine all dfh Superior and EZdrummer® sound librarie |
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All new internal mixer featuring bussing capabilities and with built in FX delivered by Sonalksis such as: • 5 Band EQ • Highpass and Lowpass filter • Gate • Compressor • Transient |
Ben Burtt, he’s the sound designer who worked on huge films such as Star Wars, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and Indiana Jones to name a few.
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If a robot falls on a deserted planet, does it still make noise? According to sound designer extraordinaire Ben Burtt, the talent behind the stars of Disney·Pixar’s “WALL·E,” it most certainly does. And you’d be surprised at how many years of research and development it takes to make every squeak, creak, click, and clank seem so real.
“The assignment was inventing original voices and all the sounds associated with the main characters … mechanisms, movements, force fields. Since WALL·E doesn’t use conventional dialogue, I had to convey the story through the types of sound each character made. By providing the illusion that they had feelings, the audience would care about them,” Ben explains. With a visual start from preliminary paintings and sketches, he …
The second Music Tech Focus edition is on sale now. This 132-page special edition magazine concentrates purely on Propellerhead’s Reason and features:
Music Tech Focus is on sale priced £7.99 in WH Smith in the UK, Barnes & Noble and Borders in the USA, and larger foreign press bookstores in Canada, Australia, Sweden and Germany, or buy online (£9 UK, £11 Europe, £14 Rest of World – inc Post & Packaging
