Posted on 11 May 2011. Tags: bass, omnisphere, spectrasonics, trilian, trilian 1.4, vst
Spectrasonics is one of my favorite companies, period. Their instruments are amazing, and they are always doing something to make them better, improve performance, and improve the user experience. They’ve released another free update for Trilian, which includes many things like an improved 5 column browser view (I love this), new modulation options, midi controller [...]
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Posted on 12 April 2011. Tags: komplete elements, maschine, maschine 1.6, maschinetutorials, tips, tutorials, vst
Hey what’s good fam! This one is for my Maschine users out there. Since the 1.6 update has dropped I’ve received a lot of questions about how to use the free Komplete Elements sounds inside of Maschine. So I wanted to make a tutorial showing how to install, load, and open the instruments in [...]
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Posted in Native Instruments, Plugins, Tutorial Videos
Posted on 17 November 2009. Tags: kontakt 3, kontakt 3.5, kontakt 4, kontakt instruments, Native Instruments, roland fantom, software sampler, software workstation, soundsandgear, vst, yamaha motif
I already told you why I love kontakt 3.5, but I also told you I would follow up with a video showing some of the new features in Kontakt 4 when NI sent it over for review. So here we are! The reasons I love kontakt 4 even more than the previous version… kore like [...]
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Posted in Native Instruments, Plugins, Tutorial Videos
Posted on 02 November 2009. Tags: absynth, absynth 5, evolving sounds, fm synth, granular synth, movie scores, Native Instruments, pads, sound design, vst
Whatsup folks? It’s time once again to spend a little bit of quality time with our friends at native instruments. Today I’m going to be checking out Absynth 5, one of their newly updated synths that dropped in October, they sent it over for review shortly after it released. What is Absynth? Well…according to the [...]
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Posted on 15 October 2009. Tags: akai s1000, akai s5000, akai s6000, akai samples, akai z4, akai z8, emu sampler, ensoniq sampler, kontakt 3, kontakt 4, kontakt library, kontakt player, kontakt samples, kontatk 3.5, making beats, Native Instruments, software sampler, sound module, soundsandgear, vst, vst sampler
It’s time for another native experience, taking a look at some dope software from native instruments. Today I’m taking a look at Kontakt, their flagship sampler they sent over for me to review. You can’t be around software instruments, sampling, and production for long before you come in contact with Kontakt. Whether it’s because some [...]
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Posted on 17 September 2009. Tags: bass samples, fender precision bass, kontakt 3, kontakt 4, kontakt player, making beats, Native Instruments, native instruments kontakt, scarbee, scarbee pre bass, vst
It’s about that time for some more loving from Native Instruments, and boy have they been busy! Today I want to take a look at their new bass instrument they sent me to review, the Scarbee Pre Bass. This instrument is based on the Fender Precision bass, and promises to give you a very realistic [...]
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Posted in Instrument Libraries, Native Instruments
Posted on 11 September 2009. Tags: akai mpc, beat making, making a beat on maschine, motu bpm, mpc 2500, mpc 5000, Native Instruments, ni maschine, sounds and gear. beat making, soundsandgear.com, vst
This is another video showing how native instruments maschine is not just a sampler or beat machine, but that it can be used just like a workstation or keyboard. Instead of using it by sampling records or songs into it, I am using the internal sounds and creating music like I would on a fantom [...]
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Posted in Native Instruments, Production Tips, Tutorial Videos
Posted on 04 September 2009. Tags: analog synth, bfd, dcam, dcam amber, dcam cypher, dcam fusor, dcam strobe, fxspansion, guru, synthesizers, synthsquad, vst
FXpansion is changing everything with their new synth squad Okay, so…if you don’t know about FXpansion, it’s safe to say you’re probably new to the software music game. They have been putting their mark on music production software for some time with their drum groove station GURU as well as their professional and standard setting [...]
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