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How to get the most out of Ableton’s beat repeat

Low Frequency — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:33:20 +0000

Good video!

Rusko spills the beans on dubstep production

Low Frequency — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:08:31 +0000

For those of you that have not scoped this yet, you’re in for a treat. In this video series, Rusko – one of dubstep’s biggest names in the game right now – drops a metric shit ton of knowledge on us concerning his approach to music production. It is incredibly rare that a musician of his stature would just lay it out like this so take note!

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The video is divided into 4 parts each around 10 minutes long which are all provided right here in order. You’ll find his teaching style very relaxed and easy to follow. Enjoy!

Mixed feelings on Native Instruments Komplete 6

Low Frequency — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:47:03 +0000

Straight out of Native Instruments design lab is Komplete 6 just released this month. We are huge fans of the Native Instruments suite of instruments and effects. Truly, they create some of the most full featured and sonically amazing virtual synths in the game, hands down. But with only a few substantial updates for this installment, we feel as though it may have been overkill to release a new version of Komplete so soon…

Komplete as a bundle includes Battery, Massive, FM8, Reaktor, Kontakt, Absynth and Guitar Rig Pro. However in this update of Komplete, only Kontakt, Absynth and Guitar Rig Pro feature any version updates. It seems odd to us that NI would release an entire suite update when less than 50% of the software changes in any way. It would have been a huge plus to include new patches for the unaffected instruments in Komplete but we may be splitting hairs.

None the less, NI makes a killer VSTi and Komplete 6 is still a great example of that hard work and engineering. Some notable updates in this package include:

7,000+ sounds
A huge sample library spanning over 60 Gigabytes in size!
Updates to Absynth, Kontakt and Guitar Rig Pro
NI is now listing 64 bit Windows systems as being supported by this software
And an attractive bundle price saving you 67% off the price of everything individually

For us the most exciting thing here is a new version of Absynth which is by fair their best instrument out. More information and whatnot on the Native Instruments website.

Chip Sounds gives vintage audio chips a new life

Low Frequency — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:18:25 +0000

Developed by Plogue, Chip Sounds is a newly developed soft synth instrument designed to recreate classic sounds originally produced by the audio chips found in old computer and video game systems of yesteryear. This video should give you a good indication of what you can expect from this exciting instrument. We intend to pick up a copy soon and will report back on our findings. Check out the Plogue website here.