HACK A DAY Has a cool tutorial on how to make a really simple digital synthesizer.
Looperman has some free acapella and vocal samples.
If you like crazy musical gadgets you should check out Found Electronics.
IG Blog has a post about a soon to be launch vintage guitar hedge found. Thats right a vintage Guitar Hedge fund. Well, it can’t do any worse the than my 401k has lately. Maybe it will make rich people even richer it the nature of investment but it is a same if more cool vintage guitars will be locked up out of site and out of the hands of guitarist.
Ambience has a great library of free field recording capturing you guessed the ambient sounds of different environments.
Yellow Tools has 2 gigs of free samples for the download. If your German is, like mine, is consits of a few words used on Hogans Hero’s use google transalte or babble fish.
Captain Beefheart is awesome. So are his 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing. Not your normally tips but what else would you expect. Moses would approve.
Sound Delay is an auxiliary multi-channel signal delaying plug-in for professional audio applications. You may specify delay time in both milliseconds and samples, with a high level of precision. This plug-in - being technical in its purpose - provides a basic signal delaying function only, without signal feedback or modulation capabilities.
Sound Delay also features internal mid/side encoding and decoding, and allows you to delay mid and side channels independently.
Seems to be a useful tool and a little different from the other free delays plug-ins out there.
Available in Windows Vst and Win64 VSTand Mac Audio Units and VST.
These new tiny tiny controls from Korg seem pretty damn cool. I am sure the is a market for these with all the mobile muscians out there. What took so long.
Desktopvibes same how nice images of some cool desktop areas. So if you workspace needs some work take a look.
I have been listening to quite a bit of 8-bit music lately. I get all nostalgic think about old video games. I must have rubbed off on my buying habits because I brought a CD for the first time for ever. I used to spend all my money on music in my starving dropping out of college days. I used to wait in line at midnight to get new releases. I kind of miss CD’s but the digital download is just to easy and practical. What inspired this purchase was Unicorn Dream Attack’s Love Bits. It is a damn good album if you like chiptune and 8-bit music. I don’t mind at all giving a little notice little artist in the big bad music world.
Oh, here is a vid of Les Paul & Mary Ford having a laugh and performing a little just because I think Les Paul is awesome.
Nine Inch Nails have released another album and it is free to download. The Slip is available in multiple formats MP3, FLAC, M4A & amazingly 24/96 wave. Better than CD quality is a surprise from any downloadable music especially a free one. It also comes with a pdf album art again. Nine Inch Nails used a Creative Commons License for the album. Once again I find this great news and think it is cool.
“thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me” -Trent Reznor
I love that. A very successful artist appreciating his fan base that allow him to do what he loves for a living and most likely living a pretty good life style. This is better than a lot of acts that try to milk it for every dollar.
Of course NIN are selling CD and Vinyl versions of the album that will be available in July. So, I imagine they will do alright financially they have a lot of very obsessive collector type fans. Do something good doesn’t always mean giving away the farm. Plus this is great free publicity in advance of their summer tour.
I am still waiting for my download link. So, I have yet to hear the album. I imagine their servers are getting pummeled again.
If you like for web pages plain, information limited and samples in great numbers I have the site for you.
The Noise Theorem Sound Library has quite a collection of samples form from classic drum machines and synths just waiting for a nice sampler to adopt them. Roland, Simmons, Casio, Korg, Yamaha etc, all represented.
Expand your arsenal of sounds with a FREE ReFill or artist-created Artist Patch each month until 2009! Incredible artists, like Propellerhead Guru Kurt Kurasaki aka Peff, and amazing ReFill manufacturers, like Sonic Emulations, will unlock their sonic secrets and let you pack even more power and versatility into your Reason rack.
If you somehow missed the DS-10 or the the fact the it will be available everywhere or even if you haven’t you might want to keep an eye on this blog. Since there appears to be a big interest worldwide the fact it will be available everywhere maybe there will be more English updates. There always is Google’s translate feature but it doesn’t seem to work so hot on Asian languages.
I like the Whites Stripes but hate the Raconteurs. Steady as Shes Goes makes me want to fill my ears with wax. Anyway here are some links pertaining to the new Raconteurs album being rushed to market. More new ideas in a brave new music world.
Gear Junkies had this round up of last weeks MusikMesse. Sonicstate has this whole page of MusikMesse coverage. Also I found this video via Digital Music Mag:
Pretty cool stuff if you ask me. What fun would that be to play with.
de la mancha has released a new freeware plugin bent. Me being a little bit of electronics tinker I of course love the GUI.
He describes it as:
bent is a circuit-bent resynthesis effect. It will recreate the incoming audio into an approximation of itself using a waveform-morphing audio oscillator. Depending on the volume and pitch of the audio, it will gate, stutter and morph the output in sync with your host tempo
If you like this kind of effect you might wanna check out the darkware stuff.
Traverso is a DAW released under a GPL license. Which means of course it is free. While there maybe a lot free instruments and effects but this not a lot of free DAW’s out there. Traverso I think would be good for people needing something quick easy. It is not like Reaper or Audacity. It in its own niche. I think it would be good for those the need something to record to multi-track podcast or add some audio to a web video. It does support a lot of audio file formats which is handy but only supports LV2 plugins which is not. I don’t think this is a serious tool yet for those really serious about recording and music production. But this kinds of project can certainly grow into something wonderful. Now though it would be a good tool for some one needing a quick and easy DAW.
From the site:
A complete suite
Traverso is a complete solution from recording to CD Mastering. By supplying many common tools in one package, you don’t have to learn how to use lots of applications with different user interfaces. This considerably lowers the learning curve, letting you get your audio processing work done faster!
Robust non-linear audio processing
A unique approach to non-linear audio processing was developed for Traverso to provide extremely solid and robust audio processing and editing. Adding and removal of effects plugins, moving Audio Clips and creating new Tracks during playback are all perfectly safe, giving you instant feedback on your work!
