The BBC Experiments in Binaural 3D Sound For the Proms 2016
For anyone interested in 3D audio and a more "Immersive" sound experience, the BBC have been experimenting with Binaural 3D sound recording at the Proms this year.
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Blackmagic Design Announces Acquisition of Fairlight
Blackmagic Design has today announced its acquisition of Fairlight, which specialises in professional digital audio products for live broadcast event production, film and television post-production, as well as immersive 3D audio mixing and finishing.
AMD And Intel To Drop Support Of Older Windows Versions
There have been some important announcements in the CPU world by both AMD and Intel recently. AMD has announced the forthcoming Zen processor series. Intel just officially announced the Kaby Lake processor line.
Paragon Backup and Recovery 16 is Free Until November
I have always been a big supporter of keeping system images through the Windows install process as well as before doing any updates. Windows system updates for example can occasionally go bad. Installing new software is always risky (ILOK...). Occasionally everything goes well but the new software is buggy or has a bug that you are not going to live with. Imaging is the easiest way to keep safety backups of your system.
Windows Data Collecting And Phone Home Features Part 2
In a previous post, I went over some of the details of Windows Data Collecting and Phone Home (Telemetry) features. In here I would like to go over some ways to stop or limit the data collecting and telemetry.
Spectrasonics Announce Keyscape™ – Collector Keyboards
KEYSCAPE™ is an extraordinary new virtual instrument featuring the largest selection of collector keyboards in the world. Ten years in the making, each of these rare, sought-after keyboards were carefully restored and then deeply multisampled by the renowned Spectrasonics Sound Development Team. These compelling and highly expressive sounds will inspire you to PLAY!
Windows Data Collecting And Phone Home Features
Windows 10 has been a full public release now for over a year. Its biggest complaints seem to be about its heavy handed security model and intrusiveness. This seems to have been slowly ramping up more and more in every Windows release. These telemetry and data collecting features ARE present in Windows 7-8, but its not nearly as intrusive and baked in the OS.
Fxpansion Acquired By ROLI
News has just been posted that Fxpansion have been acquired by keyboard innovators ROLI, In their statement Fxpansion say:
We’re thrilled to announce that FXpansion has been acquired by ROLI, a fellow leader in music technology innovation — and the company behind the Seaboard, the multidimensionally expressive instrument acclaimed as “the future of the keyboard”.
Sound Radix Announce Surfer EQ 2
SURFEREQ is a ground-breaking pitch-tracking equalizer plug-in that tracks a monophonic instrument or vocal and moves the selected bands with the music.
Synthesizer filters can track the pitch to maintain the timbre of the sound throughout the instrument's voices. However, sound equalizers have always been static. While being effective for broad tone-shaping and room resonance correction, standard EQs do a poor job at maintaining the vocal or instrument's timbre as the music changes.
Enter SURFEREQ.
Using The Pro Tools Tempo Operations Window
Pro Tools gives you many options in the Tempo Operations Window. They can be a simple and constant tempo change or a linear change. Linear will ramp the tempo faster or slower in a perfect slope in a selected area. There are more complex options as well to choose from. There is a parabolic option for instance that will let you set the curve of your ramp faster or slower in tempo among other options that can be quite helpful. I cover some of these different methods and what they do.