To all Push and Live 9 Suite users you can now take advantage of Ableton’s latest release, the New Pack Beat Tools. With samples, instruments and MIDI loops you can work around with. Targeting all Hip-Hop creators, beginner or experienced. This New Pack’s development was overseen by Sound Oracle, Mic Checkmate and Michele Darling, 3 of the best names in the industry. Featuring 102 instrument racks, 27 drum racks, 82 audio loops, 97 MIDI clips, and 15 effect racks, which is quite a number to help bring out your creativity, you will never run out of things to do with this New Pack Beat Tools from Ableton.
Read more here: http://www.musictech.net/2017/02/ableton-beat-tools/
Home Recording Equipment
Free Neurostep Sample Pack (WAV) From Ghosthack
Neurostep is a wav sample pack containing elements of dubstep and a subgenre known as neurofunk. The “neuro” sound consists of hard bass stabs and strong backbeats and contains 164 MB of bass, drums, pads, FX, and loops that are pre-processed.
Ghosthack is the company that released the free collection of dubstep/neurofunk loops and samples in 24-bit WAV format.
Read more about this here: http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2017/02/21/ghosthack-neurostep/
The Making Of Sound Effect Tools By Cinetools
Cinetools will soon be releasing a new series of modern sound effects tools and palettes more specifically for the use of filmmakers. Cinetools is well known for designing unique sound effect for the film industry. From it first collection called “Otherworlds” creating that dark mysterious effects bringing color to productions with over 750 cinematic FX and audio beds of nonstop creation.
In this video, Cinetool lets us in on a sneak preview of what’s in store next for their upcoming release of Sound Effect Tools. Watch how they bring the character of every sound captured in this video.
Watch here: http://www.loopmasters.com/articles/3778
Drum Recording 101
There are so many possible ways to drum recording and it could get complicated. From the space to your acoustics even to your gear, drum recording could get a little bit out of hand. Despite all these, there is hope, here some basic reminders how to record your drums.
Stick to these and you would not go wrong. Golden rule number 1: Choose the instrument according to the sound you wish to do. If it’s Jazz then it’s all Jazz nothing more nothing less.
Other aspects you need to consider are as follows:
Tuning, like any instrument yes you need to tune your drumheads.
Read more here: http://en.audiofanzine.com/recording-mixing/editorial/articles/recording-drums-introduction.html
Riviera By NuSpace Audio
NuSpace Audio has recently released a freeware “hybrid” reverb, called the Riviera. This reverb effect is available in VST2 and VST3 plugin formats Windows base DAW.
It is interesting how Riviera is referred to as “hybrid” in common terms a mixture, simply because it utilizes both reverberation and convolution to make its reflections. Although this is not the first of its kind and it’s only available for Windows it is promisingly powerful and fully customizable without taking much from your CPU load.
The developer of this plugin named its main parameter as VOOM short for Volume plus Room and promises to generate unique spaces.
Read more here: http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2017/02/13/nuspace-audio-riviera/