Happy New Year! Welcome to the BandmateLoops Blog..
Jan 3rd
Happy New Year Everyone. Wow I can’t believe it’s 2010! It feels like yesterday when I was a young kid tinkering in my room with my Apple Mac Plus (60mb Ehman Hard Drive, 4mb of Ram) a DX-7, MOTU Performer 1.0 and my MidiMan midi interface. Boy times have sure changed. In those days (1980’s) a dream setup was a Synclavier or a Fairlight system costing $200k or more. Now, get a new iMac 27″, Logic Audio (or insert your favorite DAW here) and an audio interface and you got one sweet system. This system is obviously much cheaper and it sure takes up a lot less space. More >
BML Free Loop Pack 001 – FatLoud Digital Beats Vol. 1
Jan 11th
This collection of free loops comes from the Fatloud Digital Beats Vol. 1 loop pack.
The free loop pack contains:
- 18 Urban style drum loop
- 26 Drum and Sound FX One Shots
- Apple Loop, Acidized Wave and REX Formats. More >
NEW PLUG-IN: Tattoo
Jan 11th
I stumbled on this very capable percussion synthesizer called Tattoo this afternoon from the folks over at Audio Damage. I would love to get this in here for a review and possibly use it for a new BandmateLoops release. More >
Michael Garfield Walks Us Thru The Concert Of Tomorrow
Jan 6th
Best seat in the house?
I came across this earlier today and had an eye-opening experience reading it. The terminology is so far out there is sounds made up, but it is a harsh reality to face. The musical landscape is changing, and I would not be the least bit surprised to find “Telepresencing” experiences on the very near horizon. More >
Free MiniMoog Voyager Samples for Kontakt 3/4
Jan 6th
I found this great collection of MiniMoog Voyager Samples for Kontakt 3/4 while reading the KVRAudio.com forums! Great work Ozorg!
http://www.soundblocker.com/free-kontakt-samples.php
Great profile video on Hollywood Sound Designer Frank Serafine.
Jan 5th
Some across-the-pond associates of mine, Soundsnap.com are launching what appears to be an inspiration series for sample and loop enthusiasts. I personally think this is a great video and couldn’t help but be amused at Tron alumnist, Frank Serafine, chasing after live chickens with a Zoom H4n Handy Recorder. As a side note, Serafine was also the sound designer for one of my personal favorites, The Lawnmower Man. Remember all those digital world sound environments? Truely an achievement.
Matthew Hendershot is an audio engineer, producer and DIY musician living in New York City and currently creating original content for Zoom In Online.
Soundlib G-Player update is now available.
Jan 4th
The folks at Soundlib.com have updated G-Player their native Gigasampler player. Soundlib describes the G-Player as:
Play your Giga files with this first native Giga player. G-Player was designed to play the large orchestral sound libraries and supports disk streaming, dimensions, keyswitches and layered instruments.
This new version includes the following corrections:
- Compatibility with Nuendo 4 (Windows)
- Instrument volumes are now saved and recalled
- Fixed a bug when opening a session with G-Player VST
- Fixed a problem when running G-Player on Windows 64 bits
- Fixed a bug when playing one instrument from Voice Of Apocalypse
Visit http://www.soundlib.com/gplayer/ for more information.
Tutorial: u-he ACE – Patch Cables 101
Jan 4th
A great tutorial about the u-he ACE synthesizer that I stumbled on to this afternoon. Thanks to newechoproductions great work!
A step-by-step tutorial with a conceptual overview of patch cables and a walkthrough creating two presets using patch cables. The video should shorten your learning curve with ACE and help you make sense of factory presets.
Gear Review – Blue Microphone’s enCORE Series
Jan 4th
There’s a new player in the Live Sound arena…
I realize that it has been some time since I have published a gear review, but when I had the opportunity to demo the enCORE 100 and 200, two new live sound offerings from Blue Microphones, and share my thoughts with you all, I could not pass it up. Firstly because I love playing with new toys, and secondly, because I find these toys in particular very intriguing.
Since I first got into engineering, Blue has been a name among names for top quality recording microphones. However, a lion’s share of their recent releases have been targeted at a broader audience. I believe that the Ball, and subsequent Kick Ball and Eight Ball were the start, but they soon led to the more affordably priced Bottle Rocket models, the USB line of the Snowball, Icicle and now Yeti, and even the odd releases of the Mikey, Eyeball and Snowflake. All of these speak to the fact that Blue is trying to broaden it market share and reach out to a wider range of consumer. But by throwing their hat in the live sound ring historically dominated by the Shure SM58, are they destined sit on the sidelines like Sennheiser’s e835? Or could they possibly be the David to what is arguably one of the audio industries sturdiest of Goliaths? More >
BandmateLoops and Dan Dean Launch Back to BASSics
Dec 18th
Get 85% off the Dan Dean Bass Collection until December 31st 2009 Available in Kontakt 2 or Apple Logic’s EXS-24 format
A special offer from Bandmateloops.com and Dan Dean Pro From now until Dec 31st, get Dan Dean Bass Collection in either Giga or EXS format for $29.99 That’s 85% off !!!
“We are really excited to be working with our friend Dan Dean and offering his best of category bass samples at this great price”. “Since its inception, Dan Dean Productions has created truly cutting edge sample libraries, receiving numerous industry awards, its time that more musicians had access to his work.” said Scott Shapiro of BandmateLoops.com More >