Free Music Software: KR-Reverb FS is designed for ease of use by adjusting internally the equalization and damping controls to optimal levels to produce a “warm reverb sound suitable for a wide range of applications.”

It’s available for Mac, Windows & Linux as a free download here >>

Features:

• Output Gain control with range
• -12db to +12db adjustment.
• Adjustable Early Reflections Size
• Adjustable Late reflections size
• Adjustable Diffusion control
• Adjustable Decay control
• Adjustable Listener position control
• Dry/Wet Mix adjustment.
• Windows XP,Vista (VST)
• Mac OSX UB (VST,AU)
• Linux Native VST
• Support for User definable presets
• (Save & Load) via Host interface

Deine Lakaien announce acoustic tour

Deine Lakaien will perform a series of acoustic shows throughout Germany this winter, with performances December 1 in Dresden, December 2 in Cologne, December 3 in Ludwigsburg, January 14 in Munich, January 15 in Dresden, January 16 in Dortmund, January 17 in Offenbach and January 18 in Berlin. Please follow the links for more information.

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1. As well as using Time Commands in the main Arrangement view, you can use them in the MIDI Editor too! This is really handy for cutting out/adding in chunks of MIDI notes while preserving everything surrounding them.
2. Need to free up lots of CPU? Select multiple Tracks, right click and choose “Freeze Track”, then go make a cup of tea. Live will Freeze each individual Track down into audio, removing the need to process any effects or instruments (don’t worry, you can always right click and unfreeze the track to go back to the original when you need to edit again).
3. To give each one of your Chains an equal amount in the Chain Selector, drag each chains Zone out so it ranges 0-127, then right click and choose “Distribute Ranges Equally”.
4. Turning on the MIDI Editor Preview also turns on a very easy to use step sequencer. Just push whatever note(s) you want on your MIDI keyboard (or virtual MIDI keyboard) and use the left and right arrow keys. If a note is held, when the key is pushed, it will insert a note.
5. Holding down the command key lets you drag slopes that change the velocity of each note selected in the MIDI Editor.
6. You can Freeze a track, duplicate it to a new audio Track by option + dragging, then unfreeze the original. This is really hand for doing a quick resample, just remember you can’t freeze a track if any of its effects have an active sidechain input!
7. In Arrangement view, holding option + command and will let you scroll/pan left and right when you click anywhere in the Arrangement.
8. If you are multi-track recording in Session view, make sure “Start Recording on Scene Launch” is selected in the Preferences (under Record / Warp / Launch). That way you just have to arm the right tracks and trigger a scene to start recording clips in all tracks.
9. You’re not restricted to grouping tracks that are next to each other. Instead of shift, hold down the command key and click on the tracks you want, then push command + g. All the tracks will be put into a neat group for you.
10. A few little extra assignable goodies pop up when you enter key/midi map mode (command + k and command + r). Turn the map modes on and look around, you can assign external events to move up and down Scenes, trigger the selected Scene, or even trigger the selected Clip in that Track.

Read it all here >>

If you like chiptunes or old video games, you won’t want to miss Rush Coil’s 8-Bit Christmas, an album of holiday music inspired by the golden age of video game music.

You can stream the entire album online. Don’t miss the 8-bit Deck The Halls.

There’s no plan for a CD release, but Rush Coil says “I will be offering a digital download of high quality music files soon with some bonus material, commentary, as well as additional music.”

Merry Xmas in advance

Thanks to S for the post