What happens when you accidently drop a Dolby 301 unit? Producer/Engineer Joe Barresi has plenty of stories and techniques up his sleeve, one of which is being an avid user of Overloud products. We dropped by his California studio with our friend Sabino Cannone, founder of MoReVoX and designer of REmatrix to see how he uses Overloud's Dopamine and REmatrix in his sessions. He even shares great advice to aspiring engineers and producers!
LA based singer, saxophonist and music producer Alex Charles has been steadily making his mark in the industry. In addition to his own music, Alex has been writing music for one of Warner Brothers' music libraries for over three years and has had his music placed hundreds of times on major network television shows. We caught up with Alex to learn the secrets of generating income from writing library music, and how he uses that to finance his personal music projects.
In the V3 version of SWAM Strings, there has been a substantial improvement in the GUI, sound and behavior improvements, and other new features. Upgrade your SWAM Strings now to V3 for free or for a discount, depending when you purchased!
Spectrasonics has released a new v2.0 edition of their Bob Moog Tribute Library for Omnisphere 2 with over 500 brand new patches and over 50 artists participating! This incredible Omnisphere library is available now for $99 at the Spectrasonics webstore and it's FREE to existing users.
During NAMM 2021 Overloud announced Fluid Convolution, a new technology utilizing next generation DSP Technology to process Impulse Responses. Fluid Convolution will be the driving technology behind upcoming Overloud cabinets and IR processing products. The first product to utilize this is TH-U v1.3 available now as a free update for registered users!
The arpeggiator is just one of the many new synthesis features included in the free Trilian 1.5 update from Spectrasonics. These updates bring Trilian even closer to Omnisphere functionality and open up many exciting new ways of sequencing Trilian's bass guitars and synths. In this article, I'll be breaking down each new arpeggiator feature in detail, offering tips and tricks along the way.
An American visual and sound artist, Stephen Vitiello has a talent for transforming, as he puts it, "incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment." In this video interview we learned that Stephen has been using the granular sampler plug-in Stream by Delta Sound Labs to transform field recordings into music.
CELEBRATING WOMEN IN MUSIC — Women have contributed immensely to music, and the songs that they created have shaped our way of being. Here's a fresh playlist honoring powerful female artists!
If you're familiar with The Vienna Symphonic Library, you've probably seen Andreas Olszewski's name on various audio demos and scores. An extremely talented and accomplished composer, he's also the genius behind most things notation related with VSL, i.e., programing the Sibelius presets for VSL instruments. Another name you may recognize is Joe Ierardi, the co-founder of Synthogy, the creators of Ivory II. A few years ago, the two men's worlds collided as Olszewski and virtuosic pianist Volker Rogall set out to realize Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto virtually using both VSL instruments and Synthogy's Ivory virtual pianos.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH — We curated a new playlist honoring black contributors in music — a mere sampling of the raw talent that has influenced generations of music makers. Listen up!
