Sonic Zest has announced Ambient Cinematic Guitar 4, a new guitar library for Native Instruments Kontakt. Ambient Cinematic Guitar 4 is the latest installment in Sonic Zest’s collection of guitar libraries specially recorded and processed to sound perfect in epic film music. To capture the beauty and epic-ness of the guitar 5 round robins were…
Luftrum has announced a Lunaris giveaway, offering a chance to win the Lunaris Pads instrument for Kontakt Player. Luftrum is giving away three licenses of the sample based pad instrument, containing pads only from classic analog pads to lush ambient pads, cinematic pads and any pads in between, including 30 original Luftrum pads from the…
iZotope has released a small tease of what the Boston-based audio experts have in works by adapting the popular Ozone Read the full story
Focusrite announces the RedNet X2P 2×2 Dante audio interface. Compact and robust, the RedNet X2P, featuring two Red Evolution mic pre’s, stereo Read the full story
Music as therapy. Kick drum production tips from Randomer. Free EQ plugin from Eventide. Music as medicine. Pitchfork investigates the therapeutic power of sound and asks if it can help people deal with trauma. Read here. Can you kick it? Esteemed producer Randomer gives a demonstration on how to make powerful kick drums at Native…
Synth Secrets is a series of programming tutorials in which we show how to make a range of classic and new synth sounds using plugins such as Massive, Sylenth and Diva. In this instalment, we’re going to be looking at how to turn a vocal sample into an evolving synth pad using wavetable resynthesis. We’re…
In this Gear Prophecy piece, we envisage what a flagship CDJ-3000NXS might be like. Denon DJ’s SC5000 Prime is a beast of a media player, and it’s unlikely that Pioneer DJ will leave such a bold challenge unanswered in the coming months. The latest CDJ-2000NXS2 was released almost two years ago, and we think that…
Roli just announced the Lightpad Block M, a compact and portable touch surface that lets you play sounds and instruments from your iPhone, iPad, or laptop. It connects via Bluetooth to your smart device running the Roli Noise or Equator Player synth / sampler apps. The post Roli’s Lightpad Block M Is A Tiny Touchpad…