Roland Rc300 loop station
Roland has finally released the direct descendant of RC50, a historic loopstation which needed an upgrade. As usual, Iím talking about an absolutely personal experience with a product as a user, and not the manual descriptions or the producersí smokescreen. Letís start by saying that the RC300 doesnít overtake the market, itís not so innovative [...]
AKAI MPK Mini
The AKAI MPK Mini controller is born out of combining two previously released AKAI products, the LPK25 and the LPD8. It features 25 mini keys, 8 pads, 8 knobs, arpeggiator and some other functions, all within a little more than 13 inch instrument, perfectly suitable for a laptop (hence the slogan “Laptop Production Keyboard”) or [...]
A Cloudy Future (part 2)
Do you feel the need to mix a song but you don’t have a pc at your disposal with all the required sequencers and plug-ins? Are you some amateurs who want to approach the world of digital audio production either avoiding any outlays or occupying your own computer’s CPU too much? The innovative technology of [...]
AudioThing – Soundscapes Vol.1
In addition to the library for Kontakt of a glockenspiel sampled with ping pong balls, AudioThing churns out a new library, completely dedicated to Soundscape, any kind of ethereal/pad/atmospheric sounds: Soundscapes Vol.1 Soundscapes Vol.1 is a collection of instruments for Kontakt 3.5 (or higher) of sound textures, ambient/pad and ethereal sounds. Any single samples can [...]
A Cloudy Future
Since its beginning, Internet has been represented by a cloud symbol. Tiny drops of information dangling in virtual space: images, text, video, music travelling like a fluid around the world, never touching the ground. Plastic materials, semiconductors and liquid crystals of our personal computers are the windows on the web-based sky. Here is the image [...]
AudioThing – Pong Glockenspiel
We already talked about AudioThing with a review about the emulation of the JenSX1000 for Kontakt. This time we’ll be still talking about a library for the sampler from Native Instruments but it’s one of a whole different type: Pong Glockenspiel Why use sticks when you can use ping pong balls? This is how the [...]
The Right Sound 6 – Tutorial di registrazione audio – Il Contrabasso
In this video we’ll be talking about the Double Bass, an instrument that has become more and more part of any acoustic music genre, notwithstanding a particular affection for classical and jazz music. Still at Pasquale Faggiano’s studio, which can be visited at the link www.recoastudios.com, with an amazing quality of sound absorption in order [...]
iRig vs Ampkit
To turn a mobile device as an iPhone or an iPad into a professional multi-effect one is the challenge which Ik Multimedia and Peavy have been posing to themselves. Let’s find out how it went. When I downloaded the iRig software and later the Ampkit one I immediately noticed the presence of a denoiser/noise gate [...]
Final Fantasy VII – Boss Theme Cover
Custom Eurorack Modular Synth (Doepfer, Tiptop Audio, MFB) Clavia Nord Electro 3 M-Audio Axiom Pro 49 Novation Xio 49 Squire Bass Toy Glockenspiel Drums
VideoSongs
The term “Videosong” means a music video which complies with two simple rules: 1. What you see is what you listen (no playback for instruments or voices at all) 2. If you hear it, you’ll be watching it sooner or later (no hidden sounds) The term, which was coined and used for the first time [...]
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