Sonoma Wire Works offers a new and improved upgrade of the award-winning DrumCore 3, the DrumCore 4. Now at 64Bit VST3/AAX/AU the plug-in now features an improved interface and also carries some highly anticipated features.
It’s easy and simple to use, just drag and drop to tracks in applications both for Windows and Mac. Featuring Audio Loops, MIDI files, and sampled drum kits, comes with its own Kit Mixer and Pro-quality masterFX this is every songwriter’s perfect tool.
It comes in different editions catering to your individual needs. In Lite, Prime Link, Prime Flash and Ultra, DrumCore 4 is the tool for you
Read More Here: http://www.sonomawireworks.com/drumcore/
Recording Software
Giveaway Of Softube Modular Synthesizer At Eric's Plugins
This month, Eric’s Plugins is giving away the Softube Modular virtual synthesizer. Modular is the virtual version of the classic hardware Doepfer Eurorack synthesizer modules. It has 6 Doepfer modules and 20 utility modules to get you going. Then you can tweak and trigger to your heart’s content to create more modules of your own.
If you are into synthesizers, you’ll love the Softube Modular, which – as the name suggests – is a modular synth, but in software format.
You can enter to win Modular at Eric’s Plugins by CLICKING HERE. You can even enter once per day to increase your chances of winning this cool synth.
Good luck!
Getting Rid of Vocal Muddiness From Mixes
One of the common problem in mixes is vocal muddiness, and of course we want clarity on our vocals, and it’s really hard to achieve! Here’s a guide from Audio Issues that can really be helpful for you. Read here.
All About Harmonic Distortion
Harmonic distortion is the sound that is always there if we send our audio signal through any hardware processor of any kind. It might be subtle in some cases, but it will be there. Now that may seem like a bad thing – the whole emotional response to the word “distortion” and all. But there are lots of hardware devices – compressors, EQs, preamps, etc. – that imparted a desirable character to audio with its unique kind of harmonic distortion.
Then when everything went into computer-land, and it became more difficult or in some cases pointless to use hardware effects, getting those sought-after bits of audio character from popular hardware device-generated harmonic distortion became a problem.
But now that computer processing power is better and hardware simulation plugins (software that sounds like the origianal hardware – well as much as possible) are getting better, we can start to impart those “good” harmonic distortions to our digital recordings.
Here is an article about this from Nantho on Audio Fanzine: http://en.audiofanzine.com/recording-mixing/editorial/articles/getting-acquainted-with-harmonic-distortion.html
Tape Effects By Reaper
IN the old days, when all audio recording was done on tape (well, I guess the “mid-old” days, since auio was recorded onto was and then wires in the REALLY old days), you recorded audio onto tape. Even though I wouldn’t trade those days for these, there were some interesting things you could do with tape that aren’t really do-able in the digital realm. So as you might expect, developers have figured out ways to simulate these “tape effects” via plugins you can use with digital audio workstations like Reaper.
In the below article from The Reaper blog, Nick Storr shares three cool things you can do to simulate some of these tape effects in Reaper.
- Varispeed – recording at half-speed and then speeding the playback up to full speed
- Reverse tracking – playing the backing tracks backward while recording vocals, and then flipping it back to normal
- Ramping up (or down) the speed of music at some point during the song. One of my favorite Lifehouse songs – “All In” – does this ever so briefly in the bridge
These different tape effects are shown in this video by Nick Storr on the Reaper Blog here by Nick Storr. Click here for some exciting tips.