Here’s Avid’s video showing and discussing the new hardware ( previous post ). By the way, the product pages for the new hardware and HEAT are now up on Avid’s website.
Monster guitarist Michael Angelo Batio showing his Monster Mix Studio.
For all the wonderful tools and toys for sound out there, sometimes you want to find the couple of tools that, like a great kitchen knife, can accomplish the majority of what you actually need. (And as with the kitchen knife, while it may not eliminate your desire for all those other gadgets, it’s worth some sharpening.) So it is with something like Csound, the tested-and-tried, free synthesis tool. Jim Aikin looked at the QuteCsound front end recently, which puts the power of Csound in a more friendly work environment. Via Synthtopia , there’s also now a screencast series that covers using QuteCsound, starting with digging into presets. (Yes, that’s right – presets. And here you thought you were going to have to do a lot of coding to have any fun.) I find two YouTube users uploading how-to screencasts: http://www.youtube.com/user/mantaraya36 (author of the series starting at top) http://www.youtube.com/user/ketchupok (start with “Where to start?” Also worth following is Jacob Joaquin’s excellent Csound Blog, hosted on Noisepages: http://csoundblog.com/ and on Twitter, follow @TheCsoundBlog It’s very early in development (“alpha”), but Jacob is already doing amazing things integrating Processing, the non-coder-friendly, artist sketchbook-style coding language, with Csound, in a new library called Csoundo . That’s an ideal combination, because you can do logic and visuals quickly in Processing, then turn to Csound for audio. This is where I imagine work in two of Csound’s most popular rivals – the object-oriented, OSC-savvy SuperCollider and visual patching, Max-descendent Pure Data – may lead, as well. Check out Jacob’s roadmap for more . By the way, I hear some folks are having some trouble building QuteCsound on Ubuntu, so I’ll see what the issue is, and write up some instructions and send them over to Jacob for his blog. It’s a good time for Csound and free synthesis in general. With this work accelerating, I think doing a series of absolute-beginner tutorials will be very doable soon. And there’s no reason you can’t integrate a tool like this with your favorite host of choice, from Ableton to Cubase.
Groove3 has announced three new instruction DVD’s. From Drop to Top is a five hours long tutorial from DrFord, teaching you the art of hiphop. Melodyne Explained is, well, I suppose Melodyne Explained, by Eli Krantzberg. Finally, there’s a new DVD called Soundtrack Pro Explained by Doug Zangar. Groove3 is also running a sale on everything, 30% off if you enter coupon code: crazycode8
A little while ago I visited the Groove 3 website to watch a DVD I had heard of but for some strange reason ended up watching Music Production with Pro Tools Vol 1: Pop instead. Music Production with Pro Tools Vol 1: Pop, from now on called Pop (because I’m to lazy to write the full title and because you probably get tired of reading it) is another DVD from every Protoolers favorite video creator Kenny Gioia. Kenny is, as I hope you know, a kickass tutor and a true Pro Tools ninja. With what my Swedish ears figure to be a New York accent, Kenny runs you through a modern pop production. One song, pretty much from start to finish. These kind of videos are actually my favorite kind of tutorials. Sure, sometimes a Pro Tools how-to can be a good watch, but seeing a great producer/mixer run through his/her techniques is usually more inspiring to me. I think it’s important to say that you won’t find a lot of of mixing in this DVD. While the track sounds good at the end of the DVD, the focus is really on production . You’ll notice subtle little things like backwards sound and what not that Kenny uses to raise his productions. There’s really a lot more to a modern pop production than one might think. If you want mixing, go somewhere else
A nice little video of someone scoring a piece in about 7:30 minutes. Inspiring… To me at least.
Video of über-improviser and electronic composer Vangelis scoring Alexander.
I’m currently experimenting a little with various stereo microphone techniques and stumbled across these two videos that I thought some might find interesting. Episode 5 – Stereo microphone techniques (Mid Side) Mid-Side Microphone Technique. This is longer, more educational in a slightly disturbing way.
As shown by Eric Persing of Spectrasonics. Damn, I think this is rather wicked. The response is slow but it could serve as a wicked remote control for any DAW. Today I’m working in Ableton Live, launching clips from an iPad would be awesome to say the least. The app is called Air Display.
Reader Franz (Franz Keller, VJFranzK) has been blissfully happy with a Tenori-On-inspired application for Apple’s iPad, and he’s committed his enthusiasm to video. I love his presentation style, a bit like a cheery authoritative voice from a vintage newsreel. From his description: Aurora by 4Pockets for iPhone, iPad etc. The newest amazing synth program to enter the iScene! 14 sparkling tracks of improvisational music briliance… a full on Tenori type experience for the great price of $10! There appear to be some tradeoffs here in the transition to the iPad. One of the strong features of using the Tenori-On was the tactile feel of those buttons against your fingertips; the feedback and precision are lost here. It’s also nice to have MIDI connectors for controlling other, often (ahem) better-sounding equipment to the Tenori-On.
Steve Earle on Pro Tools, songwriting and immigration.
As was mentioned in the comments for the Recording Nirvana post , this is videos from the same series, showing the recording of Pink Floyd – Darkside of the moon. I’ve actually watched these videos more than once. Love that record. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5.
Are you into Nirvana? I can’t help it but I think they made two pretty damn decent records (In Utero, Nevermind) that also sounds pretty damn good production wise – garage, but covered in chrome. Here are three videos I watched today with Butch Vig talking about recording three of their songs. Polly. In bloom. Something in the way
Tommy Emanuel showing what types of mic’s he use for his recordings, as well as placement of them.
Bob Katz mastering. I was hoping for more from this video when I saw the title (and the length) but thought I’d share it anyway, perhaps you’ll find it more interesting.
Krish Sharma is a man with some impressive credentials (Rolling Stones anyone?) and a good video personality. Should make his video “Studio secrets with Krish Sharma” a pretty good one…? Krish is not boring or hard to listen to at all, crucial for any DVD, and he explains his techniques in a good way. The title, however, I find somewhat misleading. I don’t really think you’re being let into any secrets in this video, instead you’ll learn some fundamentals.
A video showing David Bowie laying down some vocals. I’ve heard from to sources that David Bowie is pretty much a first take guy, doesn’t seem like it here really. Great singer and musician though!
Groove 3 has released a video for people looking to learn Superior Drummer 2, it’s called Superior Drummer Explained and retails at $39.99, but you can grab it for $29.99 if you act before April 30th, 2010. Groove 3 also keeps bugging me about iPad compatibility, probably mocking me because it isn’t available in Sweden yet. More about Superior Drummer Explained
Spectrasonics has started a new artist video series. So far the only thing that’s up is two videos of Chris Vrenna using Trilian, but more will come. Unfortunately they don’t have an embed link, but check it out at Spetrasonics .
A video showing the late Bob Moog demonstrating the Minimoog. Serves as a very basic introduction to subtractive synthesis.
Dweezil Zappa talking about his recording and touring rig, which no very surprisingly shares a lot of similarities with his father Frank Zappa’s.
Here’s a clip of the Blender from TK Pro Audio . Video from Musikmesse 2010 in Frankfurt.
Here’s a video of Audient’s new mixer/controller ASP 2802. It has DAW control (HUI protocol) and a built-in compressor. More details in the previous post .
Found this on Gearslutz . You can do a lot with just a laptop! At least if you’re into that kind of sound (unfortunately I’m not). LOVE the interviewers reaction when he sees the studio!
Hans Zimmer talking about scoring The Dark Knight, and the sound of The Joker in particular.
Groove 3 is running a rather bad ass sale right now, cutting their online prices with 50% until the end of the month. They’ve also released two new videos that should be of interest to Pro Tools users. First out is Kenny Gioia’s Pro Tools Tips & Tricks – Vol 4 . The second is from our buddy at Air Users Blog, Russ Hughes Structure Explained .
A video of the Audio Myths Workshop at AES 2009. It’s loooong….
flickr set by Matrixsynth (click for more) ” Microscopics special offer ; a free Minimoog model with every copy of the Gas 0095 album on CD or 24bit Flac. The 1:8 scale model is printed at 600dpi on 350gsm, matt laminated card, die cut and hand scored.” Gas – Microscopic (Ambient Electronic Space) ” http://www.microscopics.co.uk to buy this album. Fan made video for Gas – Microscopic. This track can be downloaded from http://www.microscopics.co.uk for free! From ‘Gas 0095′, the classic and rare (up to $460 on eBay) electronic album on the legendary Emit (em:t). Now remastered and is available again from http://www.microscopics.co.uk CD, 320k mp3 or 24bit Flac Check out Mat Jarvis other work as High Skies too.”
YouTube via redmartian ” The Harvestman demonstrates the Piston Honda at the AES PNW Section Meeting February 2010″ THE HARVESTMAN HERTZ DONUT DEMONSTRATION AES PNW SECTION MEETING 2010 “The Harvestman demonstrates the HERTZ DONUT module a the AES PNW Section Meeting Feb 2010″
