Steal that sound!
Hal Leonard Books has published Steal This Sound by Mitchell Sigman. Presented by Keyboard Magazine, the book is a collection of Sigman’s columns of the same name from Keyboard, detailing the greatest synth sounds from the greatest records, and how they can be achieved with modern gear.
Presented in chronological order as they appeared in the magazine from inception to the present, Steal This Sound includes more than sixty articles describing prominent synth sounds from Prince’s “When Doves Cry” and Nine Inch Nails “Closer” to MGMT’s “Time to Pretend” and Radiohead’s “Everything in It’s Right Place”.
Hal Leonard Books PR officer had this to say, “Steal This Sound is packed with invaluable tips and insights into re-creating these great synth sounds and provides a unique view into how synth technology has evolved over the years. Sigman explains how these sounds were created originally on synths by Moog, ARP, Sequential Circuits, Roland, and Korg, and gives step-by-step instructions to re-create the sounds using widely available modern plug-ins and software instruments from a host of manufacturers. Steal This Sound is a great read for music enthusiasts and an invaluable resource for keyboardists and programmers.”
About the Author:
Mitchell Sigman is a Los-Angeles based keyboardist, guitarist, and producer. His band Celebutante plays the LA area and has numerous TV track placements in shows such as The Jersey Shore, The Bold and the Beautiful, Burn Notice, Monk, and more. Sigman also won a BMI award in 2008 for his work on the Berlin track “Scream”, which is used as the theme song for the Lifetime drama Angela’s Eyes. Sigman has been a writer for Keyboard Magazine since 2004.
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Mr. Soundman – Free Frequency Ear Training Game
Mr. Soundman is a frequency ear training game for music producers and sound engineers. Mr. Soundman enables you to enhance your frequency detection skills, compete with other music producers and sound engineers around the globe, and win special prizes.
Enhance your frequency detection skills, get a precise indication of your abilities, and find out once and for all: who’s got the golden ears? Prove your talent and you might win special awards and prizes!
– Play a challenging ear training game
– Improve your frequency detection skills
– Get a precise indication of your your abilities
– Compete with colleagues around the globe
– Win valuable prizes and awards
Rhythm Studio Browser and Workspace
http://youtu.be/zsekwcLgXxQ
How to turn your iPad into a virtual studio
Rhythm Studio is a workspace style app with a studio of realistic electronic music instruments. It is a universal app available on all current iOS hardware.
Rhythm Studio balances advanced features by using an easy to understand interface resembling real instruments. This means that one button does one thing just like it would with real hardware. Knobs turn, switches slide, and buttons press. You won’t get lost in abstract interfaces or design. Rhythm Studio is the next best thing to having the real hardware.
Rhythm Studio includes a full 808 drum machine, 303 synthesizer, sample based synthesizer, XY style control pad, and mixer with FX.
Rhythm Studio has three ways of creating music.
- Manually program the drum machine and synthesizers like the original hardware.
- Use the Control Pad to play the drum machine or synthesizers live.
- Create randomized patterns based on the key and scale of the song.
Event with Front 242 – How to build an EBM track
On Friday 18 November Front 242’s Patrick Codenys presents workshop ‘How to build an EBM track’ in Lille (France). The workshop is part of the “Children Of EBM” event featuring a Front 242 DJ-set (BE), Suicide Commando (BE), The Hacker (FR) and Khimaira (JAP). Place to be: Gare Saint-Sauveur in Lille (France) at 8 PM and also at the Krak in Avelgem (Belgium) so it seems.
More info to come
iZotope releases The T-Pain Effect
iZotope and T-Pain have teamed up on The T-Pain Effect, a collection of music making tools designed to empower everyone to make music. Users will be able to make beats and record vocals featuring the distinctive sound of T-Pain himself.
“When I teamed up with iZotope my goal was to bring people a quality audio tool that produces quality sound,” says T-Pain. “iZotope’s knowledge of audio technology really impressed me and I knew they were the right team to partner with. This is the technology I use on my own records. I wouldn’t put my name on anything I didn’t stand by, and you can hear it on my records.”
The T-Pain Effect centers on The T-Pain Engine, a self-contained beat-making and vocal recording application for PC and Mac. Aspiring artists can get started immediately by selecting from over 50 professionally crafted song templates comprised of hundreds of T-Pain approved beats. With the backing track in place, users can then sing, rap, or speak on one or two vocal tracks to record a song with ease. Beats and song arrangements can be customized and vocals can be edited, including punch-in recording for retakes. For more vocal flavor, users can add The T-Pain Effect to the vocal tracks, tweaking the hardness and softness controls to dial in just the right sound. Then, after adjusting the levels of the final mix, the completed song can be exported and shared with friends or published directly to SoundCloud to share with the online world.
“We’re very proud to partner with T-Pain to develop and evolve the world’s first signature vocal effect,” says Alex Westner, Director of Business Development at iZotope. “As an influential and tech-minded GRAMMY® Award-winning artist & producer, T-Pain has captured the attention of hip-hop, pop, dance and electronic musicians worldwide with his distinctive vocal style.”
In addition to the standalone T-Pain Engine, the product includes a VST, AU, and RTAS plug-in version of The T-Pain Effect for use with popular digital audio workstations (DAWs) such as Pro Tools, GarageBand, Cubase, SONAR, Logic, and many more. The plug-in is a professional tool designed for music production studios and includes real-time monitoring through the host program, hardness/softness controls for dialing in the sound, and scale presets to match the key of a song. Advanced users can also create their own scale presets using the built-in keyboard or a MIDI controller.
The product also includes iDrum: T-Pain Edition, a virtual drum machine that includes hundreds of custom beats of different musical genres, inspired by over 50 new T-Pain iDrum kits with all-new samples. Used as a standalone application or a plug-in, users can arrange beats into songs, create new kits and patterns, import their own samples, and edit samples with effects like pitch, filter, and decay. iDrum T-Pain Edition is fully compatible with other content from iZotope’s various iDrum titles.
The T-Pain Effect for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/MAS/DX/Standalone) is available to purchase for $99 USD MSRP.
Kinect Synapse Ableton Dubstep Raw Bass Virus TI
This is the configuration of Synapse Kinect hack Ableton
The right hand Y (LFO) and Z (Tune) Bass Virus TI patch Raw and the left hand stutter iZotope plug combined with the right hand ..
Visuals by Quartz Composer synapse hack ..
Synapse is an app for Mac and Windows that allows you to easily use your Kinect to control Ableton Live, Quartz Composer, Max/MSP/Jitter, and any other application that can receive OSC events. It sends joint positions and hit events via OSC, and also sends the depth image into Quartz Composer. In a way, this allows you to use your whole body as an instrument.
Check out this video for an explanation of how this is done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teHCHsjxI00
This is an example performance of what you can make with the Synapse for Kinect tools combined with Ableton Live and Quartz Composer. You can have this running on your computer within minutes! Head to http://synapsekinect.tumblr.com to download.
How to make your own sounds for Mixtikl
Mixtikl is an app that lets you uniquely combine, tweak, perform & play up to 12 tracks of any combination of top quality generative music & audio or MIDI loops together with live FX. And, with Mixtikl 4, you can also now customise all the core parameters in Noatikl generative content, including note patterns (e.g. arps etc.). You can tweet your mixes* (“mixtikls”) for others to listen to, and they might even remix and/or retweet them!
In this video:
An introduction to Partikl sound editing. How to make your own sounds for Mixtikl. Covers using the Noatikl seed pak, simple subtractive synthesis and using an LFO to do basic waveshaping.
(Apologies for audio the sync problems. Some problem with the encoding process)
Enabling efficient knob recording
This short video shows how to record knob positions for playback, aka controller automation.
This new feature lets you add much more character to your songs by changing values over the length of the track. You can accomplish classic things like filter sweeps and volume fades. Any automation will be saved into your file and exported into output files.
Rhythm Studio goes TRON (Daft Punk)
Rhythm Studio demo, a new universal app. Featuring Daft Punk’s Tron Legacy (End Titles) song. Coming soon to the iTunes appstore and available on all iOS devices (including iphone 3G!) with the latest iOS installed.
“Rhythm Studio is a premier universal electronic music making app, boasting richly detailed graphics and incredible sound, with impeccable recreations of classic synths and drum machines such as the 303 and 808 along with other amazing studio hardware.”
Rhythm Studio Demos by PulseCodeInc
Learn more at www.pulsecodeinc.com
New plugin to add more color and character to your sounds
Sinevibes has introduced Filther, an AudioUnit effect plugin designed to add color and character to any sound.
Here’s what they have to say about Filther:
At it’s heart is a steep -48 dB/octave low-pass filter with innovative dual-stage waveshaping distortion. Coupled with an input envelope follower, this filter can do anything from deep low-end isolation, juicy wah-wah to growling sweeps and waveform sculpting. And with clever automatic balancing, Filther always stays incredibly smooth and punchy.
Features:
- Eight-pole, -48 dB/octave low-pass filter with dual-stage waveshaping distortion.
- One-pole finishing high-pass filter.
- Input envelope follower with adjustable sensitivity and smoothness.
- Intuitive, resolution-independent user interface.
Filther is available now for $19. Audio demos and a demo version are available at the SoundVibes site.
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