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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We Make Dance Music – Project Templates and Community Marketplace
We Make Dance Music – Project Templates and Community Marketplace We Make Dance Music is a website dedicated to a community of artists making music for the site and artists utilizing music on the site. It is a community marketplace that offers all sorts of various music-related goodies, things like Project Templates, samples + loops, even royalty-free music can be purchased there. They reached out to us recently about trying some of the Project Templates they have to offer so we checked out a few and wanted to share with you our experience so you could join the fun! We’ll give a brief overview of the website and purchase process then break down some of the templates we tried out. su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#d2d2d2″ size=”1″ The Website As we mentioned above the website has a lot to offer in the realm of downloadable music content. They organize the website into four main sections – …
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DRUMS – Spitfire LABS is Back With a New Drum Library
DRUMS – Spitfire LABS is Back With a New Drum Library Spitfire Audio is back with their latest installment of their FREE to download professionally sampled audio library collection LABS (Let’s All Become Something). We covered their first two releases early last month for their Piano and Strings instruments. Both of those libraries proved to be quality options especially given the price tag of FREE. So, this time around we are provided their foray into drums – courtesy of drummer Oliver Waton and engineer Stanley Gabriel – and super happy for the option. If you are new to the Spitfire Audio LABS plugin then you may be relieved to find the user interface is minimalistic. There are only 3 controls – the 2 sliders and one large knob – Expression, Dynamics, and Reverb. Expression is described as an internal volume control in the tutorial below but they don’t expand upon the details …
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Captain Chords 2.0 – Composition Simplified
Captain Chords 2.0 – Composition Simplified Mixed In Key recently launched the most recent update to their Captain Chords plugin, Captain Chords 2.0. We’ve had our eyes on the whole Captain suite of plugins for a while now and with the update thought it’d be a perfect time to finally try it out and give it a proper review. Captain Chords 2.0 is just one of many in the Captain suite of plugins, so we’ll touch on the other plugins that come with the bundle later on in the review! su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#d2d2d2″ size=”1″ Captain Chords 2.0 has a clean interface that can be navigated easily and quickly, the very first screen you’ll see when opening the plugin is where you decide which key you’ll be composing your chords in (you have an option to not see this screen at the bottom). There are a number of different scales to …
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MS EQ COMP – FREE Midside Compressor
MS EQ COMP – FREE Midside Compressor Internet Co. recently released a FREE mid-side equalizer and compressor plugin called simply MS EQ COMP. The plugin is available both for Windows and Mac OS platforms. It is a straightforward plugin in design and function which we’re quite grateful for, it’s part of what makes this such a quality plugin. The effect features a 3-band equalizer specifically for adjusting the center or the sides. If you aren’t interested in getting that type of processing you can link the modules in order to work in stereo by pressing a clearly labeled and easy to see button at the bottom of the plugin’s GUI. A bonus feature is a preset manager where you can save and recall your favorite presets. Internet Co. features this description on their website – MS EQ COMP can encode standard STEREO (left/right) signal to MS (middle and side) and add EQ …
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