What Was Hot Last Month
The guys over at AudioTuts have a great tutorial aimed at using Apple's GarageBand to create professional podcasts.
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dchild)Steinberg has announced the release of their latest installment of Cubase, announcing 4.5 and 4.5.2 for Cubase Studio. Improvements include better Mac OS X support, ASIO Support and some cool new VST features.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)M-Audio is sponsoring the Dean Guitar Contest where you can win lots of cool kit. In cooperation with M-Audio and the Dimebag Darrell estate, Dean is inviting all shredders to record and submit videos of their craziest chops. The video entries will be judged by online viewers and a panel of Dean’s most accomplished musicians—including Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu (Trivium), Vinnie Paul (Pantera), Eric Peterson (Testament) and Tom Maxwell (Hell Yeah).
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Want A&B to play a private party for you and 30 of your closest friends? Enter the competition for the ultimate 'bedroom DJ party' and a chance to have one of the worlds top DJ's spinning at your own place.
by Chris Allen ( chris allen)
chris allen)RØDE have unveiled their latest microphone aimed at the broadcasters with their new Procaster professional mic. Featuring a tight polar pattern and tailored-for-voice frequency response, the Procaster is perfect for every application where a great sounding, rugged microphone with superior ambient noise rejection is demanded.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)The guys over at beatportal have an article and video of Ritchie Hawtin talking about his DJ Setup. It's nice to see a turntablist demo a completely digital setup.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)The guys over at audiotuts have a great tutorial for processing vocals in logic studio. They cover removing hiss, compression, eq'ing, reverb, delay and pitch correction. Very good tutorial.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Designer Drums is an exclusive Live pack with brand new presets for Operator users. It features classic analog drums, a number of innovative percussive sounds and dedicated drum racks for instant and intuitive beat-making.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Apple has released the latest minor update to leopard (10.5) that includes fixes for the macbook air, power issues, spotlight and more. Like always be sure to check that this update would break any of your hardware or software that hasn't been tested as yet.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)In a Washington Post confessional, Pandora's founder and CEO Tim Westergren said: "We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision. This is like a last stand for webcasting."
Westergren blames the decision of the Library of Congress' Copyright Royalty Board last year, which set rates for streaming radio services. These rates swallow 70% of Pandora's advertising revenue.
Westergren blames the decision of the Library of Congress' Copyright Royalty Board last year, which set rates for streaming radio services. These rates swallow 70% of Pandora's advertising revenue.
by sikosis ( Sikosis)
Sikosis)Time Unlimited and german sample & sound design company Ueberschall are launching their "Trance ID 2" remix contest. Any remixes which are based on Mike Koglins sample kit from "Trance ID Volume 2" can enter the competition. The kit may be downloaded free of charge from a number of portals such as www.ueberschall.com and www.tracktracker.com .
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Ableton has an offer going on at the moment that would let you buy Ableton and get operator for free.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Propellerheads have shown their support for the Bob Moog Foundation by making a donation and help raise awareness of the foundation among reason users by releasing a free reason 4 Moog-inspired refill.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)The most comprehensive review yet of Tonium's new handheld DJ device.
by SJ Regan ( sjregan)
sjregan)Our friends over at Create Digital Music have a story about an open source DJ midi controller that looks pretty damn cool. It's got a very clean design, there is a video demoing the unit.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Francis Preve has posted a great tutorial on compression over at Beat Portal. It's a great tutorial that is easy to follow and understand. If you're interested in production this would be recommended reading.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)The guys over at Create Digital Music have an article about a DIY digital turntable made from a mouse. The project was created so users of the open source terminatorX scratch synth had a cheap interface. It's amazing some of the cool stuff people come up with.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)The guys over at Ibiza voice had a chance to sit down with Sasha and discuss aspects of the scene.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)For all those crazed iPhone fans out there the first commercial music creation software has been released to the app store. You can go over to our friends at Create Digital Music and read their run down, as I don't have an iPhone to play with this.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Your chance to remix Sasha - Mongoose and win a digital release as well as a copy of Ableton 7. Minor parts free but you have to pay to download all the samples.
by SJ Regan ( sjregan)
sjregan)Expert song writer Orlando Gutierrez has set up a site that offers free help with song writing. If you need some assistance with a song you're writing just submit your questions to his website and he'll personally answer your questions. Great tips and knowledge base.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)AudioCodex is an audio player for OS X that lets you manipulate the sound in terms of effects in real time and has added visualization facilities. Its a very powerful piece of software and has a suitable price point. There is a free 30 day trial so you can check it out.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)The people behind the mac DJ'ing application DJ1800 have released an update that allows you to play music directly from the iPhone and iPod Touch. Don't count on seeing this kind of app on the iPhone anytime soon, it just doesn't have enough grunt to support this kind of work.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Ableton Live 7 and Ableton Suite have just been released. Ableton renews the core of Live with enhancements to the audio engine, new and improved devices, better MIDI timing and hardware integration. They have also included the most requested features and heaps of other stuff.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Beatport, Beatsource, Beatportal and Tuneskeeper have joined forces to give away a 160gb Toughdrive every day for the next month. All you have to do is buy a track in WAV format from the websites above to be entered into the draw for that day. By the looks of the terms and conditions it is open to people outside of the USA as well.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)The guys over at Ableton have just released the Orchestral Instrument Collection bringing the symphony sound to Live. It consists of four sampled instrument collections that make up an orchestra including strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion. All were sampled at different velocities and articulations to make up a massive 24GB of samples ready for use.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Beatport and Paul Van Dyk have teamed up to run this competition to remix the track 'Far Away' from his 2007 artist album 'In between'. The prizes are pretty sweet with a pacemaker and various versions of Ableton Live available. You can get the basics of the remix parts for free or for USD$3.99 you can get the premium pack which includes the original mix.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)The friendly folks over at Percussa that are behind the ever so interesting AudioCubes have released a free drum & bass Ableton Live 7 sound pack. You can get it off their website now.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)DJ AM has been released from hospital after being treated for burns he suffered during a terrible plane crash last weekend. He was one of two survivors along side ex Blink 182 member, Travis Barker.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
dchild)Gizmo over at skratchworx has an in depth review of Numark's new iDJ2 MIDI controller. This is the second version of the iDJ with some much needed revisions to make it more inline with the requirements of today's DJ. Great review that address all the questions I had about the device.
by Digitalchild ( dchild)
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