Legendary guitarist and musical inventor Les Paul died yesterday at 94. Paul’s contribution to the world it much greater than just a Jazz guitarist with a famous model named after him. He is more than just inventor. He is perhaps the most important figure in the history of 20 century music making. He was the [...]
This free Friday is focused on free audio recording, editing and DAW software. If you have wanted or needed to to record or edit audio or even pout together a whole song this software will aid you without emptying your wallet.
Audactiy
Audacitiy is a great audio editor that I use all the time. Should be familiar to [...]
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Here is some video of one of those cool Korg Nano Controllers. More at SOS also.
Crowd Chamber is a new plug-in from QuikQuak. It is not exactly your normal effect. I may never hear a enormous crowd cheering for me but a can simulate one.
Some plug-in news form two devs with good stuff.
Ableton has released The Orchestral Instrument Collection.
I found this good collection of Impulse response:
Custom Made Impulse Responses
The problem I found is there is a whole bunch of shitty cell phone concert videos that I don’t care to see. A lot of them have 5 star ratings though unwatchable. If someones finds away to filter the crap out ofYouTube you deserve a Nobel Prize because you could make the whole web less annoying with that technology.
Celemony Software’s Direct Note Access is making news outside of music making circles. Technology Review has a pretty good 2 page article on it.
I have written a guide to having a key chain studio. The idea is basically turning a USB memory stick into a DAW. Even if this doesn’t sound that appealing to you there is a lot more info on applications that run off portable drives that would be useful to almost anyone. [...]