All posts by Mikey Backpack

Revoice Pro 3 – Tune, Double, and Warp Audio

Revoice Pro 3 – Tune, Double, and Warp Audio We recently had the opportunity to try out SynchroArts’ incredible timing and tuning software, Revoice Pro 3. Revoice Pro 3 can be used to process vocals or instruments that need corrections or fine-tuning (literally) done to their pitch and timing. Say you want to line up a pair of instruments playing the same melody line, you can do that. Want to synchronize the vocal phrasing during the takes of an artist you just recorded comps for? Done. Say that singer missed a few notes, just import the audio into Revoice Pro 3 and get to correcting! From warping, doubling, pitch adjustments in singing, instruments and ADR Revoice Pro 3 is a must-have for anyone working in the professional studio environment. When first opening the software we were greeted with a stripped down version of an arrangement view found in most DAWs. …

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Beat Lab Reviews – Fresh Tracks of the Week September 7, 2018

Beat Lab Reviews – Fresh Tracks of the Week September 7, 2018 The ruling has returned and Beat Lab Academy is officially live on SubmitHub and receiving submissions! The submissions keep rolling in so as we try to keep up we’ll be rolling the ones we like best out to you in this weekly format. The past few posts have featured ten artists and their music but in an effort to give each song the attention it deserves we’re going to keep the number of features around five. So keep on checking in and enjoying the Fresh Tracks!   su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#d2d2d2″ size=”1″ Kyson – Every High (An-ten-nae Remix) Bay Area native An-ten-nae remixes Every High by Kyson. Fans can usually count on An-ten-nae’s signature Acid Crunk style to bring that low-down-dirty-bass, however, this time around it plays a far more subtle role in the song and it totally works. As it remains …

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Really Useful Plugins #1 – Mess Up Your Projects With a FREE MaxforLive Rack!

Really Useful Plugins #1 – Mess Up Your Projects With a FREE MaxforLive Rack! You read that correctly. Really Useful Plugins released a pack of Max for Live devices all designed to really muck up your Ableton project for you so you don’t have to! Included in the pack are 12 instruments, MIDI effects, and audio effects. Below is a list of descriptive words to briefly introduce the devices. Insults! Games! Bombs! Self importance! Sabotage! Ways to magically sound like everyone else! The Chuckle Brothers! Annoying insects! Exploration! Passive aggression! Those are actually pretty accurate for this set of sarcastically devised tools, but we’ve provided the more in-depth descriptors from the RU website to give you a bit more guidance. ru.feedback “Get real-time support and advice from a sophisticated machine learning algorithm. ru.feedback analyses your audio or MIDI to provide insightful comments that can help you to get things right …

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Beat Lab Reviews – Fresh Tracks of the Week August 31, 2018

Beat Lab Reviews – Fresh Tracks of the Week August 31, 2018 This is the last installment of our trial run without submissions from SubmitHub, and hopefully, they like what we’ve been doing so far and will allow us to join their roster of Blogs. If we get approved our next post will feature artists’ submissions via SubmitHub. In the meantime here are some more tracks, they’re fresh, and they’re waiting to be heard! su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#d2d2d2″ size=”1″   Carter Wilson – Neoteny Looping (prod. Erameld) Neoteny Looping is a multi-part track that features a couple songs, it really comes alive at the 2-minute mark with an awesome flute lead and a George Carlin sample running along in the back. Carter Wilson’s vocals are soothing and rough at the same time, which help evoke feelings of comfort and urgency supported in his lyricism. To top it off, the album was Mixed …

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Vocaloid 5 – Virtual Singers in Your Computer

Vocaloid 5 – Virtual Singers in Your Computer Yamaha recently released the 5th version of their singing synthesizer software Vocaloid, this is the first update to the software in four years. Being that we love all things music tech we had to reach out and take the software for a ride, and it was incredible! First impressions blew us away and as we dove deeper our jaws stayed on the floor. Vocaloid 5 comes as and can be operated either as a standalone program or as an AU/VST plugin, for this review we ran the VST plugin with Ableton Live 10.   su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#d2d2d2″ size=”1″ Major overhauls have been made to the workflow in order to improve efficiency for producers. Also, a wider range of singers has been added to the lineup to incorporate more diverse singing styles. The standard pack comes with four voices – Amy, Chris, Ken, and …

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Amplified Cello Quartet – Spitfire LABS Releases Cello Library

Amplified Cello Quartet – Spitfire LABS Releases Cello Library Spitfire Audio has released Amplified Cello Quartet to follow up their previous release of DRUMS. This time around we’re getting blessed with an entire software instrument dedicated to the Cello. Christian Henson and Harry Wilson were the engineers responsible for capturing the sound from the celli artists. After passing the sounds through amplifiers they routed the audio through some effects pedals to give them a more distinct feel. Here’s what the engineers said about it: LABS Amplified Cello Quartet was recorded by our founder Christian Henson and engineer Harry Wilson in 2017, here at Spitfire HQ. Christian played with the sound during the live recordings using effects pedals, with the celli in one room and the amps in another. The amps were driven incredibly hard, allowing you to turn your strings up to 11! The plugin’s interface is presented in the same …

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