Archive | July, 2010
Posted on 30 July 2010. Tags: acoustic guitar, Big Fish Friday, kontakt 4, kontakt player, soundsandgear, vir2
It’s Friday…you know what time it is Time for some Big Fish Today we checking out another instrument from Vir2 This one is dedicated solely to the acoustic guitar instrument. It’s called Acoustic Legends HD Let’s check it out! So what is Acoustic Legends HD? It’s basically a closet full of the most well-known, and [...]
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Posted on 27 July 2010. Tags: bpm, mach 5, motu, rhodes mk1, rhodes samples, uvi soundbank, uvi workstation, uvisoundsource
Ever since I started messing with Motu BPM I started to checkout the expansion libraries for it, I always do this when checking out a new instrument. The fact that BPM can be expanded is a plus in my book, and the sounds from all of Motu’s instruments can be used. But today I’m checking [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010. Tags: donald johnson, nigel williams, novaloops
Yo, I got some news that was definitely a shocker to me….check this out. Nova Loops Executives Leave To Pursue Other Ventures Nova Loops CEO/President, Donald Johnson and VP Of Operations, Nigel Williams have both resigned their executive positions at Nova Loops and Nova Sound Inc in order to pursue other ventures. After leading Nova [...]
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Posted on 22 July 2010. Tags: akai, asr 10, bpm, diginoiz, fatloud, hip hop, maschine, mpc, mpc 1000, mpc 2000, mpc 2500, mpc 5000, mv8000, mv8800, Native Instruments, orchestra samples, string samples
Back with another soundhound, today we checking out some orchestra samples. This is the first pack I’ve reviewed from Diginoiz, but I’m not new to them, they are a spinn-off label of fatloud, run by one of the producers for fatloud. So though this is the first official Diginoiz review, this isn’t the first time [...]
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Posted on 20 July 2010. Tags: beats, groovebox, maschine, motu bpm, mpc, mpc 1000, mpc 2500, mpc 5000, mv8000, mv8800, Native Instruments, song arranger, song mode
You all know I’ve been using Maschine for a while, and one question I get quite a bit is how to lay out a song using scenes. It’s a little different than traditional song mode in a beat machine… where you just put a pattern in a list and tell it how many times to [...]
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Posted on 17 July 2010. Tags: akai, asr x, beat thang virtual, maschine, motu bpm, mpc, Native Instruments, uvi soundbank, uvi soundsource
Still exploring Motu BPM, making a beat using just the factory sounds this time, no expansions or anything. Everything in here comes from the factory library. It’s a nice little workstation, with the expansion packs it becomes even more powerful, despite some little quirks hear and there, I like it. I find myself opening it [...]
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Posted on 15 July 2010. Tags: acoustic bass, bass legends, bass plugins, chapman stick, fender, spectrasonics, studio electronics se-1, trilian, trilogy
If there’s any other instrument or element in popular music styles that has a profound of an effect on the over feel of the tracks as the drums do, it’s gotta be bass! A great bass riff, bass line, or bass part can take a track to the next level….gives it that thump baby! Honestly, [...]
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Posted on 13 July 2010. Tags: beatmaking, bpm, maschine, motu, mpc, plugsound pro, ultimate soundbank, uvi
I just got Motu BPM last Friday, Bought it from someone that wasn’t using it, hadn’t even been registered yet. I had to check it out for myself. I plan to have a full review of it, but just like I did with Maschine, I want to spend some more time learning it. I just [...]
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Posted on 12 July 2010. Tags: kontakt 4, kontakt player, Native Instruments, session strings, soundsandgear
Got strings? Native Instruments does, and they’ve put some vintage mojo on them as well…for when you’re feeling a little nostalgic? But…are they any good? Or is it just another cheesy attempt at a usable pop string section? let’s see What are Session Strings? To contrast a lot of the larger string/orchestral libraries, Session Strings [...]
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Posted on 09 July 2010. Tags: big fish audio, Big Fish Friday, cinema drums, cinesamples, drums of war, kontakt 4, lord of the rings, Native Instruments
It’s friday, Big Fish Friday…. Let’s get into it! Today I’m taking a look at something that will excite those that tend to venture out into video game, media, film, trailer, and other forms of epic style music. Sometimes you just need BIG DRUMS…. Thankfully Cinesamples felt the same way, so they decided to create [...]
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