Category: Soft/Hardware Developers

NEXT-GEN MUSIC AGGREGATOR

This is intriguing. London-based Songdrop, which allows you to create playlists from such varied sources as YouTube,SoundCloud, VEVO, Pitchfork and blogs with a Drop It button, has closed its first investment round of $150k in seed funding from SOIC Capital, Hypebot reports.Songdrop, which was one of the finalists in last year’s EMI Innovation Challenge, is free to the user, but paid mobile apps are in development as…


Into The Lair #57 – Ear Training Part 1

In the 57th Into The Lair, Mix Engineer Dave Pensado walks you through some exercises that can help you better identify certain frequencies in the spectrum.


IK Multimedia iRig Keys and iLectric Piano review

http://soundsandgear.com/ik-multimedi… checking out the iRig Keys mobile/portable keyboard controller from IK Multimedia as well as the new iLectric Piano EP app for iOS.


Backbeat: Professor ?uestlove Teaches Michael Jackson’s ‘Off the Wall’ at NYU ‘Classic Albums’ Class

To a certain type of music obsessive, a tutorial on classic albums with ?uestlove sounds more like a fantasy date than something you might actually get college credit for. Yet such a course exists at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music – and there, at the institute’s SoHo headquarters, 20-odd students and…


Sonic TALK TB-303 – Atomic Kitten, Gerbil Rock

A new guest joins us from the rarified world of pop production, now working in commercial writing and founder of prog rockers Frost – top chap and good value! Jem Godfrey tells us about his work with X-Factor artists and other high pop acts. We talk about Avid and the hypothetical DAW change, Waldorf Rocket, NI’s…


Producer Greg Wells – Pensado’s Place NAMM 2013 Special

Producer Greg Wells joins Dave Pensado and Herb Trawick on stage at the Avid booth at NAMM 2013


Hybrid Two Project Alpha review – SoundsAndGear

Checking out a new sound design library for Kontakt called Project Alpha http://soundsandgear.com/hybrid-two-p… this is a new product from Hybrid Two distributed through TimeSpace and requires the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt.  


Waldorf Intros Rocket Synthesizer

Waldorf Music has introduced the Rocket Synthesizer – a new module they describe as ‘an ideal fun sound design machine’. Here’s what they have to say about it: It’s incredible sound is a powerful weapon of mass destruction, and never before has this been achieved with such an enormous fun factor. It features an analog multimode VCF with lowpass,…


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Into The Lair #56 – Tracking Drums with Greg Wells and Ian MacGregor

Greg Wells and Ian MacGregor share their drum tracking process on the 56th Into The Lair! Download the stems for a sample of the recording here:http://bit.ly/YgyEra