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Here's some more sites for your reference. Some of you will find these really useful.
100 free plugins. Yes, there's more. We want to hear from you to see which ones you guys think are the best, and why.
Email me - chris@audiotechnews.com
DSK Brass: Sample-based brass instrument, with two layers and 23 waveforms, effects, automation support, and even micro-detuning.
DSK StringZ: Sample-based strings, two layers, separate ADSR envelopes for each layer, effects, automation.
Syntar: A sytar-like synthesizer.
Dr-Fusion 2: Drum sampler and syn [ read more.. ]
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Eclipse Sound & Light in Suffolk, UK has decided to become a player, as it's just bought an Electro-Voice XLD compact line array system. The speaker configuration consists of 12 XLD281 top boxes plus four XLC215 bass bins, powered by EV's Tour Grade amps.
Eclipse have gone for a 48-channel Midas Legend L3000, so Audiotechnews would love to hire in the speakers, but will bring the desk himself, thanks very much. [ read more.. ]
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Forget friends. Your family will forgive you. If you're thinking about a Christmas present for yourself, it might be worth taking a gander over here.
You can pick up McDSP's Analog Channel Native plug-in at a reduced rate until the end of December.
Here's what they have to say.
Analog Channel Native emulates the sounds of high-end analog tape machines, tape, and channel amplifiers.
Analog Channel is 2 plug-ins:
* AC1 - Emulates analog channel amplifier circuits
* AC2 - Emulates analog tape machines
Both in mono and stereo versions.
Analog [ read more.. ]
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MXL Microphones have introduced a new general purpose studio microphone. The V88 is a large-diaphragm, pressure-gradient, condenser microphone with fully balanced transformer-less output. It boasts faithful capturing of vocals and other acoustic sources.
"Internally wired with Mogami cable for signal transfer, the V88 features a 32mm capsule with a gold-sputtered diaphragm. With its cardioid polar pattern, off-axis instruments remain natural-sounding, and the capsule provides feedback suppression during the recording of live performances wh [ read more.. ]
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Good news for FireWire audio interface users who've bothered with Vista.
You can download Windows Vista 32 and 64 drivers for Tascam's FW-1082, FW-1804, and FW-1884 FireWire audio interfaces as well as the legacy USB products. More details and moral support on their website. [ read more.. ]
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Studio Devil's latest; Vitrual Guitar Amp for Windows is now shipping at $79.
It boasts 18 tube amp channels, but personally I've got sounds I'm happy with from programs like Reaper and the subsequent free downloads you can find on the net.
Having said that, you might want to check out the audio clips they've put up. I'm actually quite fond of the 'Jazzy Blues' sample. [ read more.. ]
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For a limited time, customers who have purchased hardware products such as Steinberg's Cubase LE or select Yamaha hardware products that include Cubase AI4 can get a fully-functioning crossgrade version of Cubase 4 or Cubase Studio 4 and save up to 50%.
Cubase AI4 supports the DAW extensions for Steinberg software and provides Advanced Integration between Yamaha hardware and Steinberg software. If only Bill Gates would release a version of Windows that runs properly on PC's, we'd be laughing. [ read more.. ]
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Tascam are releasing the model up from their TEC Award-Winning sampling workstation 'GigaStudio 3'. Imaginatively called GigaStudio 4 - the new version supports 64-bit operating systems like XP64 and Windows Vista 64.
"GS4 builds on the features of GigaStudio 3, including unlimited polyphony, 96kHz/24-bit sample support, 128 MIDI channel playback and embedded GigaPulse convolution reverb. The iMIDI rule programming includes legato mode, round-robin, alternation, portamento, dynamic expression filters and more to add realism to sampled perfor [ read more.. ]
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Barely into his 20's, farm boy Charles Driscoll of Hamilton, Michigan may have built the worlds most ridiculous recording studio in an unused granary bin on his parents farm.
"It was terrible," Driscoll said of creating the interior's semi-rounded walls and ceilings, plus a spiral staircase, during renovations that took place over three years' time. "It's 10 times more complicated than building something that's square. Doing the ceilings was miserable, cutting drywall into triangles multiple times."With the help of his parents, Tom and Mindy [ read more.. ]
