Metal Foundry Presets – Andy Sneap
Toontrack has released Metal Foundry Presets – Andy Sneap, a collection of presets for Superior Drummer 2.0 and Metal Foundry SDX.
Andy Sneap is a world-renowned musician, engineer & producer – the “go to” guy for making great sounding metal records.
Andy has partnered with Toontrack to create a suite of Metal Foundry Presets for you, to help bring you one step closer to your ultimate metal sound. This package takes your mixes to the next level!
Just fire up your DAW of choice & insert Superior Drummer 2.0 as a virtual instrument. Load the Metal Foundry SDX and select the preset that sounds best for what you are doing. Mix your masterpiece. It couldn’t get any easier.
Metal Foundry Presets – Andy Sneap is available to purchase as a download for 7 EUR.
More information: Toontrack / Metal Foundry Presets – Andy Sneap
The Kandinsky Effect on music
Just a nice animated video, enjoy
Réalisation & Animation : Manu Meyre
Peinture : Vassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII (1923)
Musique : The Kandinsky Effect, Girl/Boy Song (edit)
www.manumeyre.fr
Vince Clarke on the ARP2600
Vince Clarke has uploaded a new episode of his “Analogue Monologues” series of mini-docs featuring some of his favorite gear. This one takes a look at the mighty Arp 2600.
The return of Plastikman
Long before Richie Hawtin became a renown DJ and mastermind of the Minus label, he was best known for being Plastikman. 2010 saw Richie Hawtin’s return as Plastikman with a live show reworking original Plastikman material from 1993 to 2003. Following on from the success of this show, Minus now presents “Arkives” – the definitive history of Plastikman in a limited edition box set.
“Arkives” will be a strictly limited, made-to-order edition. This means that only as many copies will be manufactured as have been pre-ordered.
Included are remastered versions of all six previously released Plastikman albums and a trove of rarities, unreleased sessions and new material such as classic and hard-to-find remixes for other artists, including La Funk Mob, System 7, New Order, Depeche Mode, Hardfloor, and even an unreleased remix of his own Robotman project. Next to this you may also expect all-new remixes specially commissioned for the project, in which Hawtin’s influences and heroes rework Plastikman’s back catalog. Reaching far beyond the world of techno, the disc features luminaries such as Vince Clarke, Cliff Martinez, François Kevorkian, Moby, Chris & Cosey, Severed Heads, Flood, and Mute’s Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones.
Two CDs will contain previously unreleased material. One features the never-before heard, complete recording session from which “Spastik” emerged, along with an unreleased John Peel in-studio live session from 1994.
The DVD “Optik” is a DVD of classic and rare Plastikman videos plus previously unreleased footage of Plastikman live at Glastonbury, 1995 and Plastikman live at Mutek, Montreal, 2003.
And the cherry on the cake is a digital download code redeemable at plastikman.com, which will unlock additional material not included on the CDs (or other Arkives editions), insuring that each collector receives the most complete Plastikman Arkives to date. Ain’t that sweet?
It will be released in 4 different formats:
- Reference (11-disc CD/DVD/book edition)
- Analog (6 records on 180-gram vinyl in a deluxe box, with poster)
- Digital (digital download version)
- Komplete (including all CDs, vinyl, book, DVD, and bonus digital downloads)
Bit Blog Jr
Dr. Bleep posted this teaser photo of the new Bit Blog, Jr., available for pre-order from Bleep Labs 11/11/10 as a kit or assembled noise synth.
Here’s an older video showing the concept:
Leaked screenshots from the new Ohm Studio DAW
A trio of screenshots from the beta version of Ohm Force’s Ohm Studio online DAW
The interface is looking rather more colourful now, and the session/chat window at the bottom left gives an idea of how you’ll be communicating and collaborating in Ohm Studio come the middle of December, which is when our informant tells us beta testers will be mailed their invitations and download links.
Head over to the Ohm Studio website and get your name on the list!
Via CM
How to warp a song in Ableton
Ableton Certified Trainer and Dubspot Instructor Laura Escudé explains how to warp a song for remixing in Ableton Live 8. Using “Help I’m Alive” by Metric, Laura takes you step by step through the process of warping the stems of a song.
Learn more at the Dubspot Blog: http://bit.ly/dzzca6
New compressor effect released – the SKWOSH
whiteLABEL unveils SKWOSH, a VST Compressor Effect for Windows.
“SKWOSH, is a versatile compressor offering 4 main modes of hard and soft; compression and signal-boosting. Envelope following comes in a choice of peak or 2 RMS modes with optional peak-hold and simple or complex follow modes.
The sidechain can be either internal (1&2) for regular stereo operation, or external; (3&4) for keyed operation. The sidechain filter offers high, low and band-pass with upto 4 poles for a maximum response or 24dB/octave. There is of course a monitoring switch to hear the filtering applied to the sidechain signal too. “
Features:
- Output wet / dry mix control.
- Input / output flip: 1&2 / 3&4.
- Chain audition: on / off.
- Output limiter: on / off.
- Character: clean / static drive / dynamic drive – with controls for filth level and drive factor.
- Lookahead: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 40ms with additional match / half / double modes.
- Key filter: LP / BP / HP: 6/12/18/24 dB/oct – 80hz to 8khz.
- Sidechain: internal or external (2 stereo inputs).
- Operation: hard knee / soft knee / hard boost / soft boost.
- Envelope: peak / RMS 1 / RMS 2 …
Price: £25
Granular synthesis with Curtis
The Strange Agency has updated its granular synthesizer, Curtis For iPad, to version 2.0.
New in the update:
- all new user interface
- amplitude envelope
- scratch mode
- chromatic pitch quantize
Curtis For iPad is $4.99 in the App Store.
About Curtis For iPad
Granular synthesis works by combining many tiny grains of sound from an existing recording, creating new sounds with the texture of the original, now with endless temporal possibilities. Play the sound forward, backward, or even at a single point!
Unlike scratching a record, pitch doesn’t depend on how quickly you move through the recording. Try with spoken word, singing, synths. Mangle your recordings or create soft, gentle textures!
This release allows you to record audio with your iPad or add your own WAV files via iTunes. No more in-app server setup; just drag-and-drop!
Speak n spell with Reaktor 5.5
This is my second voice synthetiser (no samples, only analogic!!)…..
This is my 1st builded version from speak n spell. Made with reaktor 5.5
Via Krumlek
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