Stethosphone

Sound Design, Video

stethosphone

The Stethosphone is an “alternative” miking tool built using a couple of electret mic capsules mounted inside a cheap stethoscope. This instrument is very useful in order to experiment with surface recording from any object and it is good even as new way to record instruments such as guitars, drums and so on.
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Hammond Organ Emulation

Tutorials

Hammond Organ
Prepare yourself for remake the sound of the most popular electromechanical instrument in the world. In this article we will explain you how to emulate the famous Hammond organ on your synthesizer.
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Ozric Lead

Lead Sculpting, Tutorials

by Carlo Castellano

In this tutorial I will explain how to recreate a lead sound I realized inspired by Ozric Tentacles sounds. Technically speaking, this lead is very simple to achive (is a sync-based lead) and do not require particular skills to program it. This lead can be extremely metallic and “spacey” but it requires realtime controls to play at it best.
For the creation of this lead sound I’ve used a VA, XioSynth from Novation.

The very sound designer mind

Sound Design, Video

You can get sounds out of everything… especially when you have to complete an assignment.

Erotomania Organ on Korg X-50

Tutorials

An easy and effective guide, posted by Ultima, on programming the classic Erotomania (Dream Theater) hammond sound on Korg X-50. Read more

Sunday Sauce

Sound Design

The Sauce To make this sound i’ve recorded a slow boiling sauce, then downpitched by two octaves without retaining the sample length. The sound was then processed by denoising, boosting of interesting frequencies (such as boil pops), compression and ambience has been added through various reverbs and granular processors. A lot of further boosting was needed to achive a decent level.

Spectrasonics Omnisphere finally released

Software

The amazing new masterpiece from Spectrasonics has been officially released. This new instrument has been previewed at last NAMM, causing heart attacks to the audience for its powerful and rich sound thanks to the featured Steam Engine.

Ominisphere price: $499/€379

Laptop Battle Naples

Events

Il 18 Ottobre ci sarà un grande evento a Napoli. Vi riportiamo di seguito il comunicato ufficiale

La Battaglia Dei Portatili:

Siamo arrivati ad una fase cruciale per la sfida.

Cerchiamo gli 8 duellanti che si contenderanno a colpi di bit
il primo premio della Laptopbattle Naples 2008.

Entro il 30 settembre proponi il tuo live-set.

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7 free software instruments that don’t suck

Software

Here is it. A selection of great sounding software instruments that really sounds. Usually people can think free means bad or approximative. Sometimes it’s true, but these seven got balls and will show you that even free stuff can be valuable. Now let’s introduce Audjoo Helix, EMU Proteus VX, Native Instruments Kore Player, Tascam Continuous Velocity Piano, Togu Audio Line Bassline, UVI Workstation, Yellow Tools Indipende Free and a special guest. Check them out.
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Try VST online before buy

Software

Do you plan to buy a VST but want to test it without all the hassles of demo versions? Now you can and legally, thanks to www.try-sound.com system. Just register and download their session installer to try a virtual instrument. Available PlugIns so far: Artist Complete, Complete Classical Collection 2nd Edition, Chris Hein Horns V1, Chris Hein Guitars, Chris Hein Bass, Drums Overkill, Ethno World 4 Professional, Galaxy II Pianos, Latin World, Orient World, String Essentials 2nd Edition, RealGuitar 2L, RealStrat, Cult Sampler, Independence Free, Convolution SpaceSymphobia, Ivory Grand Pianos, Ivory Italian Grand.