Metalix – a toolkit of morphed metallic instruments
Sample Logic tell us that Metalix is a toolkit of morphed metallic instruments, percussives, atmospheric soundscapes, pads, and tempo-synced audio loops for cinematic music production. Here’s what they have to say about it…
Based on recorded metallic instruments and sounds, Sample Logic has once again revolutionized sample programming by creating never before heard evocative organic instruments and bombastic loops. Following in the footsteps of Sample Logic’s long tradition of award-winning products that “blur the line between music and sound design”, Metallix is a must have for musicians, performers, and producers of all types.
Pricing and Availability:
$99.99
More information:
UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Package updated
Universal Audio has announced an update to its UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Packages. All UAD-2 SOLO, DUO and QUAD DSP Accelerator Packages now feature smaller, “greener” packaging, and include the new “Analog Classics” Software Bundle at no additional cost.
The NEW “Analog Classics” Software Bundle features:
- LA-2A Classic Audio Leveler — Previously only available for purchase online, this plug-in is the world’s most accurate emulation of UA’s revered, electro-optical, analog compressor.
- 1176LN Classic Limiting Amplifier — Also previously only available for purchase online, this plug-in emulates UA’s legendary, FET-based, hardware classic.
- 1176SE Limiting Amplifier — A DSP-optimized version of the 1176LN, yielding higher instance counts and its own unique characteristics.
- Pultec EQP-1A EQ — Pultec EQ’s have been studio staples for decades and this plug-in proves equally indispensable.
- RealVerb Pro Room Modeler — The RealVerb Pro has often been hailed as the most flexible and natural sounding reverb plug-in in the industry.
Beta testing (ver 0.92) Madrona Labs great new upcoming synth called Aalto
Aalto is a new synthesizer coming from Madrona Labs this summer. It looks like this:
Aalto can make many different kinds of sounds, including some that have been difficult or impossible to do with softsynths until now.
Here is a bouncing-ball-style patch made with FM: Aalto FM Bounce by Randy AKA Caro
Here’s a clip demonstrating the timbre and waveshape knobs of the complex oscillator. Aalto Timbre+Shape by Randy AKA Caro
MP3s do not compress single-oscillator sounds very well—to say the least! To hear the full-quality sound, use the download links on the Soundcloud players.
Aalto came about because I wanted Soundplane owners to have a rich and expressive sound making tool right out of the box. I designed a small synth that would be easy to learn, easy to use, rich in possibilities, and tightly connected to the controller. Though we still have some work to do on the controller, the synth is nearly done. So we are releasing a MIDI-controlled version of Aalto as an AU and VST plugin this summer.
Remixing Maroon 5
Multimedia remixer Kutiman remixes Maroon 5 – using footage of the band members playing, jamming and having fun during their latest college tour in the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzfuKhtP3tc&feature=player_embedded
Kutiman edited the videos to create a new track.
Jamming the DIY modular synth
Inverse Room interviews Trevor Pinch, author of “Analog Days” and other books about the history of technology, who demonstrates the DIY modular synth he built in the 1970’s.
Trevor Pinch, a professor at Cornell University and the author of Analog Days, a documentation of the early days of electronic music, is shown here playing with an Ithaca, NY band on the Commons last may.
Music by hand
Your kids will love this Saw figure.” So, too, must have been the calculation of the person who decided to immortalize the film Saw with little toys and figures containing 30 seconds of voice recording, because this toy is now available in quantity for — wait for it — US$2. A $2, 30-second sampler? Now that’s a bend waiting to happen.
Circuit bending blog GetLoFi in 2008 posted a detailed set of instructions for bending the SAW III sampler. Download the full PDF, and you can make one yourself, using the $2 part from All Electronics.
In the spirit of getting everyone in on the noise-making fun, our friends who organize Handmade Music Austin are making this bend the basis of their August event. As usual, you’ll also get a happy Sunday full of learning, making, sharing, and sounds. Details on the Handmade Music blog, if you’re in the Austin area:
Austin #10
Error Tone, a glitchy and circuit bent sound sample library previously released as a Reason ReFill
Tone Manufacture has released a Kontakt version of Error Tone, a glitchy and circuit bent sound sample library previously released as a Reason ReFill.
We’ve been working late into the night to bring you our first Kontakt library and we’ve made sure that it uses Kontakt’s effects, modulators and script programming to their full potential.
All of our Kontakt libraries will include custom Performance Views to let you get straight to tweaking the most important controls and lots of lovely modulation wheel automation.
Error Tone for Kontakt features
- 32 instrument patches, from distorted drones to delicate mallet tones.
- 30 drum and instrument loop patches.
- 200+ singles hits, from tweeter shredding glitches to low end rumbles.
- 8 patches with the single hits mapped across the keyboard for ease of use.
- 46 REX2 loops.
- Includes mod wheel automation and custom Performance Views to allow easy access to the most important controls.
- 600+ Mb of content.
- 24 bit / 48khz high quality audio.
Error Tone is now available to purchase in Kontakt, Reason Refill or Wav / REX2 formats, for the introductory price of £19.99 GBP until August 11, 2010 (regular price £29.99 GBP).
More information: Tone Manufacture / Error Tone
Sneak peak at the New Yamaha Motif XF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlz14qWqY9Q&feature=player_embedded
The New Yamaha Motif XF! Coming Oct. 2010!
Inspiration Comes In A Flash
A high-quality collection of Voices, including powerful piano Voices provided from an enormous 741MB of waveforms
Up to 2GB of additional content available through flash memory expansion modules
Sound engine that increases the expressiveness of instrument sounds
VCM effects that reproduce the unique, natural, warm sounds of vintage instruments
Synth spotting with Robyn
Electron Sid Station, Nord Stage, M-Audio controller and Roland SPD-S
Synthesis with NIs Massive
Brian continues his discussion on Native Instruments’ Massive, demonstrating how to use the performance editor and filters to make sweet bass sounds.
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