All you can eat drums – Neil Peart Drum Solo
This is from the first show of the second leg of the Rush Time Machine Tour
The drum solo you’re performing on the current Time Machine tour – how would you say it differs from past solos?
“Well, as I said, it’s much more about improvisation. When I did the Anatomy Of A Drum Solo DVD, and that was only five years ago, I defined myself as a compositional drummer, and my longtime teacher, Freddie Gruber, would say, ‘When I watch you play, you’re composing.’ So I accepted that. OK, cool, I’m composing. But then I thought, No! I want to be an improviser, and I’ve worked very hard at that. It’s an art. You don’t just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do. That’s the way I look at it: I improvise very deliberately, and I try not to repeat myself. That’s been a very big change in my playing over the last five years, and I’m moving more and more towards improvisation.
“It doesn’t just happen, of course. You have to practice…and trust yourself. After 45 years of playing, I had to learn to trust my instincts at a very basic level. Certain patterns would recur, but I’d force myself to set them up differently or conclude them differently. ‘Wait a second…I did that last night. I’m not going to do that tonight.’ In a way, like I said before, you have to think like an editor. A producer is in my head selecting what I’m doing. It’s a whole different level of thinking. And then, of course, there’s that great jazz saying: ‘If you make a mistake, do it twice!’ [laughs] It takes a while for all of this to become second nature, but I’m working on it.”
Teenage Engineering: Wire Flanger & Ruler Ring Modulator
“I’m visiting Teenage Engineering in Stockholm and developing my physical effect for the OP-1 synth”
Sometimes I dream that I’m flying
“Sometimes I dream that I’m flying, not like a bird, more like I’m floating in air.
Few days ago it was very windy outside and for a moment the image of those dreams came to my mind.
I always wanted to capture that feeling I experienced in those dreams, and so without too much thinking I grabbed a guitar, a double bass bow and went outside recording.
All the sounds are generated from the trees, the wind, wind chimes and bowed acoustic guitar harmonics, processed with granular synthesis. I’d suggest listening to this piece with a good set of speakers, possibly with a subwoofer. I hope you’ll like it.”
Want to add some sausage to your mix?
Dada Life has released the Sausage Fattener, an effect plug-in for Windows and Mac in collaboration with Tailored Noise.
The Sausage Fattener only has two knobs. But don’t be fooled. With those seemingly simple parameters you can create loads of different sounds. Use the Sausage Fattener on a single channel with moderate settings as a musical compressor. Turn it up and you have a dirty bastard of distortion. But you can also use the plugin on a bus (for example all the drums and the bass) or the whole track as a mastering plugin.
The Sausage Fattener is used by Tiësto, Kaskade, Diplo, Laidback Luke, Chuckie, Sebastian Ingrosso, Dirty South, Hardwell, Angger Dimas, Frank E, Zedd, Lazy Rich, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, Marcus Schossow, John Dahlbäck and many other DJ/producers.
The Sausage Fattener is available as an effect plugin for PC and Mac (VST/AU) for $29 USD.
The world’s most powerful keyboard production station
Judge for yourself, this is how they market it:
The StudioBLADE (Gen2) is the world’s most powerful keyboard production station. Powered by Dual Xeon 6-core processors (12-cores total), 192GB of RAM and 6TB of hard drive space, the StudioBLADE (Gen2) can run over 2,000 plug-ins at once, sequence thousands of tracks simultaneously and hold millions of sound presets. Based on Windows 7 (64-bit), it can run virtually any software or plug-in and is user upgradeable.
Custom configured and ready to use right out of the box, the StudioBLADE is your entire studio in a single instrument. Order direct at http://www.MusicComputing.com
How to Record a Song – Recording Guitar and Bass
Have great ideas on your guitar or bass that you want to record? Line 6′s Propellerhead Product Specialist Matt Piper shows you how to get started recording guitar and bass with your computer at home using Propellerhead Record + Reason Duo software. This video also includes a section on microphone placement for recording a guitar amplifier.
This video is the second part in a series. The first video on how to get set up is here: http://youtu.be/gvzS2jS7bRc
Next time, Matt will show you how to program drum and percussion parts!
A delicate Sci fi Ambient drone
“A delicate Sci fi Ambient drone. This is part of a 36 piece soundbank I have created to be used in Scapes, lurker and graincube. I’m thinking about making the Nki and reaktor map available once I find a decent online host to post on. You can listen to the rest of the samples on my soundcloud page.”
http://soundcloud.com/pnortnaomi/sets/pnortnaomi-drain-rom
A lot of bleeps and bloops
Welcome to the world of geeks at the Leeds Meet June 5 2011
A group of like minded people meet to make bleeps and bloops on various types of electronic kit
Effectively control Native Instruments’ Prism synth
Jacques returns with some more creative ways to control Native Instruments Prism synth. Using a Starr Labs Ztar Jacques can control any number of parameters found within this soft-synth, such as decay, harmonic ratios, delays, FX, tempos etc. he’s easily programmed the touch pads, ribbon, joystick, and volume knob to interact with Prism, allowing for quite an expressive and creative journey into sound!
Eager to test the Cakewalk Sonar X1?
Want to try Sonar X1 with no strings attached? Now you can do just that with the free Cakewalk Sonar X1 Trial, now available for download at cakewalk.com.
The free Sonar X1 Trial is a fully-functional, 30-day version of the Sonar X1 DAW. Sonar X1, the latest version of Sonar software, offers new tools and features not found in previous versions of Sonar, such as the Skylight Interface that streamlines workflow.
The trial provides the full capability of the Sonar X1 Producer edition, including the Pro Channel console strip, which provides two types of compression, musical equalization, tube saturation, and flexible routing options. For a whole month, you can use the trial version to do just about everything possible with the full version — you can save projects (a major plus) and use most of Sonar X1 content minus a few synths, processors, and other features that ship with Sonar X1. It’s free, so don’t complain. Plugins included in the trial are the V-64 Vocal Strip, PX-64 Percussion Strip, and Rapture LE.
What you need to know about the Sonar X1 Trial:
- It’s a fully functioning version of Sonar X1 Producer
- Works for up to 30 days if registered
- Includes ProChannel, Rapture LE, VX-64 Vocal Strip, and PX-64 Percussion Strip
- Lets you experience the new Skylight Interface
- Trial version download is 612 MB
- Tutorial content download is 624 MB
- For Windows PC only
The Sonar X1 Trial is a fully functioning version of Sonar X1 that will work for up to 30 days if registered. To download the trial version, visit cakewalk.com and fill out the necessary information. Valid download links will be emailed to you. Note that there are two installers — one for the application and one for the optional content.
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