If you ever wanted to play something in reverse you know that the process can sometimes be frustrating. It’s not too hard to turn around something around in a DAW, but manipulating it to work with the track can become a time-consuming operation. Now comes Output Sounds’ Rev, a software instrument dedicated to playing everything…

Universal Music is reorganizing its Island Def Jam Motown group into three standalone labels and promoting some key executives in the process. Effective immediately, Island Def Jam will cease to exist, according to a press release issued by UMG. Def Jam will run as its own unit with longtime executive Steve Bartels at the helm…

Lesson Link: http://audioschoolonline.com/product/?lesson=377 Throw out the Rule Book, you won’t need it here. I give you many of my secret tricks and techniques for coloring sound in non-traditional ways. Nothing about this lesson will show you the “proper” ways to use plugins. Most of the techniques I demonstrate were discovered while searching for ways to…

KANYE WEST POSTPONES UPCOMING AUSTRALIAN TOUR TO COMPLETE NEW ALBUM. AUSTRALIAN TOUR WILL MOVE FROM MAY 2014 TO SEPTEMBER 2014 Due to unexpected timing requirements to finish his highly anticipated new studio album, scheduled for a 2014 release, Kanye West regretfully announces the postponement of his upcoming tour dates in Australia. The tour dates originally…

Famed DJ and record producer Frankie Knuckles, who helped popularize house music first in Chicago then all over the country, earning him the nickname the Godfather of House Music, died “unexpectedly” on Monday at the age of 59. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Grammy-winning Knuckles worked with the likes of Michael Jackson and Diana…

Starting June 1, the U.K. government will legalize burning CDs, DVDs, video games, and ebooks “for private purposes such as format shifting or backup.” It will remain illegal to distribute these copies. Under the new rules — which the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) implemented after a governmental survey found that the vast majority of the…