Category: Gear

Ableton Live Tutorial – Creating a Beat with Found Sounds

http://www.pointblankonline.net/ableton-live-sound-design.php In this Ableton tutorial Ski Oakenfull creates a track idea with found sounds from his trip to Japan. Collecting ‘found sounds’ for your production palette is a great way of stepping away from the sample libraries and plugin presets, and moving towards organic sounds that are completely unique to your music.


Big Fish Audio – Black Symphony by Black Hand Loops

http://soundsandgear.com/big-fish-audio-black-symphony-by-black-hand-loops checking out Black Symphony loop library from Big Fish and Black Hand loops, browsing the sounds in NI Maschine, chopping samples, and making a beat


Is This The iPad Mini?

Another Apple leak. Is this the possible new iPad Mini? Check out the photos of the device and some cases below. ShottaDru X TatWza 9to5Mac points out that Taiwanese Apple (AAPL) blog Apple.pro has posted some grainy pictures of purported iPad mini shells that are likely fake but are nonetheless intriguing. Why are they likely…


Pensado’s Place : Into The Lair #22: Using distortion on your tracks part 2

Dave Pensado shows you how to apply distortion to elements of your mix to add color to your sound. Part 2!


Dope Loops Oneshot Artillery Live Pack review

http://soundsandgear.com/dope-loops-oneshot-artillery-review checking out a new Ableton Live Pack product from Dope Loops all about oneshot samlples, created in a custom Live Pack format, it also includes wav, and refill formats. Using it in Ableton Live 8


Ableton Tutorial – Sound Design Series (pt1) – Subtractive Synthesis Example

In this video Danny J Lewis shows you how to use two amp envelopes, panning each oscillator in a different position to create a stereo image. Here the result is a nice, fizzy contemporary sound that works well for sustained chord sections. This is a sample tutorial taken from our Ableton Live Sound Design course….


AKAI MPC 2000XL and Yamaha NS-10 USB flash drives

http://rawdrumsamples.com some audio production themed usb flash drives from in the form of the Akai mpc 2000xl and the Yamaha NS-10 monitors


Music Educator Profile: Pianist and Professor Eduardus Halim

n this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org – Concert pianist and Professor of Piano at New York University’s Steindhardt School Eduardus Halim discusses his career as a pianist, what it was like studying with the great Vladimir Horowitz, and some of the subtleties of playing the piano that he tries to impart to his own students —…


Sonic TALK 276

Sorry about the audio delay, something got screwed up in the recording. Summer has hit here and we’re all sweltering and loving it, first up we talk the new Youtube Gold awards, then the brilliant Theremin from EtherealTristesse and Electro Harmonix, the engimatic A.I.R/M-Audio Ignite software package, and finally we talk about the new Dark…


Stephen Makmus, Guitar God, Gets Real on Soft Focus

an asks Stephen Malkmus the eternal question: Did Pavement shred? Or did they rock? Stephen Malkmus submits to Ian’s tender interrogation in this edition of Soft Focus. Getting started, Ian asks what it’s like to be raised on the faux-Mississippi Delta. After Stephen reveals his distaste for the art world, Ian asks about the lasting…