Archive for the ‘Music Making’ Category
07/07/2011
Today’s goodie is very cool. I’m a big fan of DSK Music and use several of their plugins. Here is the instrument page on their site. Classic orchestra instruments – 4 layer (40 instruments, 1 drum kit, 10 internal combos) featuring: – Amp. envelope – Midi channel selector – Panorama control – Level, gain and [...]
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06/21/2011
I don’t normally do this, but I am a FruityLoops owner, and I’d love to surprise my wife with an iPad. And, how could would it be to program music on your phone? Image-Line is pleased to announce FL Studio Mobile is now available from your local App Store. There are two FL Studio Mobile [...]
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03/28/2011
Tags: $5 vsti, cheap vsti, help red cross japan, instrument, omnichord, soniccouture, survivors, tsunami
In the spirit of helping, SonicCouture have made one of their Kontakt libraries available for $5 – the proceeds of which will go to help the Tsunami relief effort in Japan: http://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/g28-omnichord/ From their website: “Japanese Tsunami Appeal This offer is only available until 31st April 2011 – 100% of all payments taken for the [...]
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02/01/2011
Tags: composing, film scoring, free, freebie, loops, samples, soundfont
It’s been real quiet here… well, not really… been working a lot on wrapping up Episode I of my web series, 7 Shades of Lenity, working on Sound Design and Scoring for Angela Cecile Lee’s, Sunset in McDade, and my own romantic short, Perseverance. Episode I has been fully released in 7 parts, and I [...]
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12/25/2010
And in keeping with the recent trend of folks giving cool stuff away for Xmas, Acoustic Samples, who make instruments for use in the Kontakt 4 sampler (if you only have the free Kontakt 4 player, you can only use these for a few minutes at a time, and then have to restart your DAW [...]
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12/08/2010
Tags: composing, free, free plugins, mixing, scoring, solid state logic, sound design, sound engineering, ssl, vst, vst plugins
So, I’ve been spending a good amount of time working on Sound Design for Episode I Part 3 of my web series, 7 Shades of Lenity, and while searching for some foley elements (more about that later), I came across some free plugins from Solid State Logic. Solid State Logic make hardware and software effects [...]
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09/29/2010
Tags: bongo, composing, ethnic, free, free samples, instruments, midi, vst, vsti
Just came across these today, and thought I’d share them. First, we start with another plugin from Mildon Studios, Otobongo (read auto-bongo) which is a vst instrument to emulate a bongo, with the added twist of changing the pitch each time a note is hit. Check it out: http://www.mildonstudios.com/m2/page1.aspx?mode=1&item=21 Next runner up is SF2 by [...]
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09/22/2010
Here’s another very cool find. This is the Kent Loop Collection Vol 4 – Battery Drum Loops. From Kent’s site: ” This contains 50 loops made with NI’s Battery 4 drum plug-in. They are four bars long with various bpm values. These are very much experimental drum patterns for exploration and new ideas instead of [...]
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Tags: composing, free samples, free soundfonts
In my endless search for cool and cheap/free sounds to complement my composing library (for scoring my own films), I stumbled upon this cool website, bedroomproducersblog.com, and they had an article on Drum Machine Samples: http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2010/09/16/free-sample-shootout-5-the-best-free-drum-machine-samples/ Also, the very cool company sonivox, which boast some unusual instruments, are also giving away free soundfonts for Mac [...]
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09/13/2010
Tags: effects, free, plugin, vocal, vst
At first it may seem a little subtle, but it does make a difference. Check it out: http://www.mildonstudios.com/m2/blog.aspx?mode=1&item=19 They also have other cool plugins on their site, so be nosey, and if you like their stuff, donate some coffee money! Share on Facebook
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