Category: Gear

Fabfilter Twin 2 synth review – SoundsAndGear

Sounds and Gear checking out the highly praised Twin2 vst synthesizer from Fabfilter, who also makes the Pro-Q, Pro-L, Volcano filter, and many other audio plugins.


Big Fish Audio Rock Cinema review – SoundsAndGear

Checking out a rock soundtrack styled library in KLI Kontakt format from Big Fish Audio. It’s a collection of rock guitar,drum, bass, key, and synth loops in a cinematic rock style.


Ableton Tutorial – Sound Design Series (pt5) – Follow Actions (pt2 – Beat Intercept)

Switching clips with a technique known as Follow Actions is an interesting approach. The way it works is this: you choose one of several actions for each clip. This could be the first clip plays to the end and then moves to the next, or the first clip plays to the end and then plays…


Sound Design / Building a Synth in Reaktor

Welcome to Friday Forum Live! The session will kick off at 1pm (BST). This week we welcome Point Blank instructor and course developer Paul Crossman (General Midi). He will be showing you some tips in Reaktor before jumping on the decks to play us out with a DJ mix. The aim of the sessions is…


Pensado’s Place #81 – Producer, Engineer, and Author: Ken Caillat

In the 81st episode of Pensado’s Place, Dave and Herb are joined by GRAMMY Award-winning producer, engineer, and author, Ken Caillat. Ken co-produced and co-engineered Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album, Rumours which won the GRAMMY for Album of the Year. His work and experience on Rumours served as the basis for his book “Makring Rumours”. Also…


Maschine MK2 Controller, Custom color kits, and Maschine stand

Native Instruments released information about the refreshed/updated Maschine MK2 controllers with the color pads, similar to Traktor F1, as well as new customization kit options and a new Maschine stand.


Beatmaking with iMaschine and Ableton Live – Making Music With Apps

‘Making Music with Apps’ series Danny J Lewis shows you how you can put together professional sounding tracks on the move. In this tutorial he starts off with the beatmaking using Native Instrument’s iMaschine. This approach is all about making the most of the unique qualities of each app and recording the results into Ableton…


X32 MIDI Remote in Logic Studio

After a couple of questions about setting MIDI remote control mode in Logic Studio, I thought I see if it could be done. Well it can.


Soulful Horn Licks Maschine expansion

Yall know I work with many different sound companies to get them to do products and expansions in Maschine format, MVP Loops is one of those companies The M-Paq series is dedicated to providing content in Maschine format. This is from the Soulful series, and is featuring a bunch of soulful horn licks.


Beat Thang by BKE – Sound Browser Update

Testing a new firmware update for the Beat Thang hardware that updates the sound browser when in pattern mode so that you can browse by drumkits and instruments separately instead of in a long list. This is one of the features I’ve been pushing for, for a while. BKE has been updating the hardware with…