How to create your Logic Pro 8 Template
Logic is like a puppy. It can grow into a nasty beast, bite your neighbors and dig up your daisies. Nip it in the bud!
Train it early to obey your commands and it will be a loyal servant to you.
Long time logic user with a bad dog on your hands?
Your old dog can learn new tricks, just be patient.
A template is a reusable Logic song file that you can use as a starting point for your new songs or recordings.
Learn how to:
-Customize Logic Pro 8 for your recording hardware and purpose
-Use groups to reign in your many inputs
-Use busses to set up routing once and for all
-Create your own screensets and quit mousing around
Sugar Bytes Turnado
Sugar Bytes has announced Turnado. Although the video above is in German you can get a good idea of what this thing can do. Available this summer.
“The idea is simple: Turn a knob and the effect is on. Turn the knob further and effect parameters start to move and modulations start to apply. Turn the knob down and the effect is off. This one-knob-action fits perfectly for all kinds of studio or stage situation where you bang your midi controller creating wicked breaks to let the crowd dance even harder. While each effect provides one knob to control it, underneath that easy cover you find effect parameters and modulation engines to be controlled by the main knob in all thinkable ways, which makes loading an effect just the starting point of the way you can go with it. The powerful “Dictator” mode allows you to animate all main knobs and run that animation with just one fader. This way you easily create and control complex effect layerings and arrangements in a new and inspiring way.” – sugar-bytes.de
For more info: sugar-bytes.de/Turnado
Animato – featuring over 1,000 samples and loops, in .wav and .rex formats.
Tonescape has released Animato – a free sample library, featuring over 1,000 samples and loops, in .wav and .rex formats.
Here’s what they have to say about the free sample library:
This pack was carefully crafted in my studio during a period of about four months.
The goal was to deliver some quality loops, drums, fx and vocals for a variety of genres incl. Dubstep, Drum’n’bass, Psytrance and Psydub. It is perfectly applicable to other genres too off course.
Features:
- 407 MB content including Alien, Field recording, Fx, Loops, Moog, Percussion, Tonal, Vocals.
- Tools used to create the sounds include: Moog Voyager, Doepfer Dark Energy, Eventide H7600, NI Deep Freq (used extensively for modulated sounds).
- All samples are 100% royalty free to use in commercial and non-commercial work.
Animato is available as a free download from ToneScape.
Generative Online Sound Sequencer – Otomata
Play with it at: http://batu.in/otomata
Otomata is a musical sequencer that you can play with online. Click the above URL and have fun.
The Harry Potter Gaia Remix
My favourite Harry Potter themes (John Williams) played on Roland Gaia and Yamaha Motif by Fabien Labonde
A good way to try tweaking clean sounds, pads, leads and dirty sounds from the Gaia
Family Portrait – Hedwig – Buckbeak’s Flight – Window to the Past – Nimbus 2000 – Double Trouble
ALESIS ANDROMEDA A6【DEMO】
The 5 Secrets to Writing BETTER Music Faster
Ableton Live Certified Trainer HD tutorial: Learn the secrets to the music production process. http://www.vespers.ca http://www.soundcloud.com/vespers http://www.twitter.com/djvespers http://www.facebook.com/vesperspage
Extremly long evolving drones/soundscapes and on interchangeable synth loops
LoopBased has introduced Ambivalence – a new sound pack with the focus on extremly long evolving drones/soundscapes and on interchangeable synth loops for music styles like Electronica, Chillout, Ambient and as well for cinematic sound tracks.
Features:
- Over 1 GB content in 24 Bit/44.1 Khz WAV format, normalized and free of DC offset.
- Includes 32 long drones and soundscapes, 32 “Main Loops”, 133 “Loop Elements”.
- The drones and soundscapes are 16, 32 or 64 bars long (at 120 BPM), so most of them have a length of more than one or two minutes. These long samples have only short fade outs at the end to give you the freedom to determine the optimal release times for your productions within your sampler or your DAW software on your own.
- All loops are at 120 BPM, 4 or 8 bars long and are carefully edited for seemless looping without glitches.
- The “Main Loops” are small, but complex musical miniatures, consisting of vintage synth lines, modulated analogue step sequences and arpeggios, sweeping pads, atonal fx loops and various other sounds that are mixed together with different levels and pannings.
- The so called “Loop Elements” are looped, isolated layers from the “Main Loops”, but they are centered and at full level now. Each “Loop Element” again consists of several layers on its own. Most of these “Loop Elements” are interchangeable among themselves. This allows you to create 1001 new loop variations or to build up an arrangement progression for the “Main Loops”.
Ambivalence is available now for 15 EUR.
Trans Europa Express in the Superbooth
Studio version of my set at the Schneidersbuero Superbooth event at the Saasfee Pavillion last week.
I took a 6U system to Frankfurt, which was the same rig I used for the recording: 4MS RCD + breakout, Analogue Solutions MX224 & SH-NZ, Cwejman RES-4, MMF-1 & VCA-4MX, Doepfer A-133, Makenoise Wogglebug & Maths, Plan B M15 & M12, Toppobrillo Sport Modulator & Triple Wavefolder and, of course, the EHX Stereo Memory Man w/ Hazarai.
http://navs.bandcamp.com/track/trans-europa-exzess
External Instrument Tutorial – Using Ableton Live and Reason Together
This video demonstrates how to use Ableton’s External Instrument device to achieve a seamless workflow with Propellerhead’s Reason 5.
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