The Loudness War - Part 4
LearningAfter discussing volume in the previous article, this time we'll focus on your ears.
Friday’s Freeware: Bassdrum::Murda
Hot newsFreewareThis week’s freeware is a bass drum synth in VST plug-in format for Windows, that was recently updated by DistoCore.
A review of SONiVOX Tony Coleman Drums
Written testSONiVOX's Tony Coleman Drums (Mac/Win), is a virtual drum plug-in featuring sampled kit sounds from Coleman, who’s played with a who’s who of blues and R&B artists including B.B. King, Bobby Blue Bl…
Omnisphere 2 has been released
Hot newsSpectrasonics released a few minutes ago the new version of its Omnisphere virtual synth and sample player.
The Loudness War - Part 3
LearningIn this installment, we'll look at the consequences of the loudness war on music, sound and human ears.
How to get killer sounds with your amp-modeling plug-in
LearningThe debate about real amps versus modeling amps is over. Numerous blind tests among players and engineers have revealed that it’s often impossible to distinguish modeled amps from the real thing, esp…
Beta 9 for the MeldaProduction plug-ins
Hot newsMeldaProduction released beta 9 for all its audio processing plug-ins and MPowerSynth, along with two new plug-ins, one of which is free.
Positive Grid launches Bias FX
Hot newsPositive Grid has officially released the eagerly-awaited Bias FX guitar effect and amp emulation system for Mac, PC and iPad.
Trackbits, an online project manager
Hot newsAustralian start-up Audeezy developed an online solution that allows bands and professional studios to manage their music projects.
Comparing different ways to approach the beginning of a mix
LearningMixing a song offers a cornucopia of creative choices. You decide how loud to make every instrument, where to place it in the stereo image, which effects to use, which tracks to mute, and so forth. I…
The Loudness War - Part 2
LearningToday we'll continue our series on the volume wars. This time, we'll focus on mainly on compression.
Understand and minimize latency when recording in your DAW – Part 2
LearningFinding an acceptable level of latency is something everyone making music with computers must deal with at times. For some of us it's child's play, but for some others it can get complicated very qui…
Review of Synchro Arts Revoice Pro 3
Written testThe folks at Synchro Arts, renowned for their VocAlign software, recently came out with Revoice Pro 3, the latest version of their software that incorporates vocal alignment, pitch correction, doubli…
EastWest launches a subscription system
Hot newsEastWest follows the new trend and launches the ComposerCloud subscription plan that allows anyone to access all their sound libraries.
Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 23
LearningAfter having explored synthesis methods that have opened the doors to the most extravagant worlds of sound, today I invite you to tread a more conventional path: The artificial reproduction of well-k…