50% promotion on the popular sample library Minimal Pop
Samplerbank is starting a 50% promotion on their popular sample library Minimal Pop.
URL: http://www.samplerbanks.com/minimal-pop-techno-loops-by-samplerbanks.html
This promotion is valid for 4 days only, starting from now on and expires at midnight 27/12/2010 GMT.
Minimal Pop is a massive collection of brilliant minimal loops recorded from vintage and analog stuff, then edited in an old-fashion way: chords, grainy synths, fat basslines, electro breaks, glitched sounds and high-quality drum loops prepared to use in your upcoming track!
All loops and samples are in Minimal House style with a pinch of popularity. Add a teaspoonful of creativity and bake it for a hot, danceable production!
Reaktor – makes people talk
Analogue Microcosm – Sample pack by Richard Devine
ANALOGUE MICROCOSM is an intricate arsenal of unique analogue sounds by legendary sound designer and producer, Richard Devine. The samplepack comes coupled with sampler presets for most major sample formats. To top it off, the package comes with a new Twisted Tools sampler, MP16, for all versions of Native Instruments Reaktor 5.
Samplepack Features:
570 handcrafted analogue oneshot sounds from Richard Devine’s fantastic hardware collection
Drum hits, fx, massive sub bass, glitch and atomspherics sounds.
40 kits in .Wav, Kontakt, Battery, EXS24MKII, Ableton, NNXT, Reaktor and Maschine formats
Intuitive sample mapping
A brand new Twisted Tools utility sampler, MP16
MP16 Sampler Features:
16 Voice Polyphonic Sampler
Pad style layout
Unique parameter and modulation settings for per voice
Grain delay effect per voice
Note repeat effect
Two LFOs per voice
Modulation routing per voice
Kore and Maschine Templates
Kari Berg of Ashbury Heights takes on new projects
Model and singer Kari Berg, former singer of Swedish Ashbury Heights is now current with a variety of new projects.
In addition to various guest appearances in Ad Inferna, The Tot Cor and Psy’Aviah which releases with Karis vocal performance is in question in 2011, she is also part of the Chaos All Stars along with OlkK and Nik.
The trio is now current with new material on the legendary Nangijala Records has given new life.
In cooperation with Echolize is the introduction by two songs for free download – here! Enjoy!
Via ES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvFMV_NSfkY
Ashbury Heights – Invisible Man – live @ electriXmas 2010
An aggressive new M-Audio sound
Get ready for an aggressive new M-Audio sound. Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan of the Crystal Method are talking about something wicked in the works over at Avid. What is it? We don’t anymore more than it is a synthesizer. They have called their “new favorite toy” and and say things like “something we haven’t really heard before” and “hard to believe someone went in and tried to do something unique.”
Check it out 
The disco is always with you!
BitDisco is a playful music app for the iPad. It’s specially designed so that anyone can easily play great-sounding tunes, whether you’re the least musical person, or a seasoned professional.
We’ve achieved this simplicity by creating a grid-like interface. Simply tap or trace your finger over the iPad’s screen to create stunning sounds. There’s no need to memorise complex scales as some of the lesser used notes have been removed to make playing easier. You can even select from a range of sounds, tones and backing beats to start a disco in your bedroom!
Awaken your inner musician! Download BitDisco from the App Store now.
Diatonic granular pitch shifting delay effect
Loomer has updated Shift,its diatonic granular pitch shifting delay effect for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, to version 2.0.
Details on Shift 2.0 below.
Features:
- Five independent true stereo delay lines, with discrete delay, feedback, pitch shifting, filters, pan, and volume.
- Pitch shifting comes courtesy of a powerful granular synthesis engine: with a few simple grain parameters, you can create the perfect granular sound, be it for guitar, synth, drums, loops, or anything else.
- Fast and accurate monophonic audio analysis component extracts pitch information, in real-time, for intelligent in-scale pitch shifting and harmonies. Calibrate the tracker to your sound and style using the built-in tuner.
- Perfect your preset design: use the XY grid to maneuver the seven main delay line parameters in real-time or to get at-a-glance feedback on the overall preset shape.
- A comprehensive modulation matrix allows each delay voice parameter to be individual contoured. Modulation sources come in the form of four tempo-syncable LFOs, each producing five modulation shapes: sawtooth, sinus, triangle, square, or stepped random noise.
- Over 100 presets included, from the simple to the exotic, each tagged ready for searching, and annotated with playing suggestions. Listen to a preset in context with ‘hot-swap previewing’. Create partial presets to build up a library of delay voices, grain engine, and diatonic tracker settings.
Shift is available for £45 GBP (+ VAT). It’s a free upgrade for registered owners of Shift 1. A demo version is available.
The “Nordlead Pluck” Trick – tutorial
And for the 1st time, i’m showing you how to create a specific sound from scratch and what’s the concept behind it!
Now before you ask, NO I won’t share the MIDI file of the melody, I’m sorry but I always go careful with copyrighted stuff even when I’m the creator, because labels own the all the rights when something gets singed.
Anyway hope this will be something useful and who knows, maybe will inspire some sounds used in your future hit
Please rate and comment the video if you like it
Also read what I wrote about Eq and compression on my blog (7skies-music.com/blog) if you intend to ask about it, I will cover eq and compression in a VERY simple and basic way in further videos but I’m sure it won’t be anything you don’t know already.
Well enough, now enjoy the video and thx for watching
Cheers
D.
Interactive music concept with Remiix: Plastikman Replikants
Richie Hawtin introduces Liine’s new interactive music concept with Remiix: Plastikman Replikants. Available on the iTunes App Store now, Remiix lets you combine and transform original Plastikman tracks and reinterpretations from your iPhone or iPad.
Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman alias is synonymous with blurring the concept of performance and experience, with stripping back the boundaries between music and technology and merging artist and audience.
With Plastikman Live in 2010 and its mind-bending melting-pot of sound and light we were introduced to a world first in electronic music performance: the SYNK app allowed the audience to experience Richie Hawtin’s audio-visual manipulations on their mobile devices in a new and personal way. It even allowed the audience to interact with his audio computer and the sound coming from the speakers themselves at certain points in the show.
Remiix is part of this natural progression of immersing the audience further into the spectacle, an opportunity for music fans to interact with, manipulate and Remiix both classic Plastikman material and newer reinterpretations.
With Remiix: Plastikman Replikants, Richie Hawtin is setting the tone for Liine’s new interactive music concept. The Remiix series of apps for iPhone and iPad, created alongside forward thinking artists, allows users to experience music in a completely new way. Instead of being recorded and rigid, the music is delivered in parts alongside all the tools needed to put it back together or recombine it, irrespective or whether you are a studio pro or novice.
With this first in the Remiix series, Richie Hawtin offers loops and parts from classic Plastikman tracks, from remixes specially commissioned for Replikants (part of the extensive Arkives package) as well as bits and pieces discovered in the hidden depths of his studio. This is the user’s opportunity to combine things that were never intended to be combined and to twist things into even deeper, darker, stranger places.
As well as giving access to the loops themselves, Remiix apps also allow you to mix the material as you wish, and apply EQ and special effects tailored to the artist in question. For Plastikman, expect disorientating reverbs and twisted, pitched tape delays. Liine has integrated professional grade effects, but with the user interface reduced to the bare minimum to allow a huge range of expression with simple macro-controls. This is all tied together with a specially created themed user interface so that you’re actually interacting with the cover-art itself.
Pricing and Availability:
$2.99
More information:
Singing AudioCubes with Ableton Live 8
A short video showing a Percussa AudioCube controlling 4 synthetic voices in Ableton Live 8 (voice-vocosyn.adg preset). Hand movement around the cube’s four sensors determines the final mix of the 4 voice sounds which are placed in a loop at certain pitches. Learn more about AudioCubes at http://www.percussa.com/ and become a fan on our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/PercussaAudio…
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