Our friends at Time+Space are running an interesting competition, the Ultimate Songwriter Bundle. Whether you are a complete music production beginner or a seasoned pro, there’s a huge software prize so I think you should definitely check this out! The Songwriter Bundle contains award-winning software from Toontrack, Garritan, Vir2 and…
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Round Up Loops & Samples – Urban Cookbook 3, EZdrummer2 Hip Hop, Future R&B
This week’s sample roundup is linked by the fact that they’re all Urban focused releases, from hip hop to R&B, stepping off at many other genres along the way… GoldBaby Urban Cookbook 3 GoldBaby is an indie fave, and they don’t disappoint with their new release Urban Cookbook vol 3…
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Songwriter’s Corner: Toontrack EZdrummer 2 Review
Reading comments on virtual drummer ( or guitar, strings, etc.) software, you’ll often find comments like “Just get a real drummer!”. Well, these people usually miss the point of tools like these. True, having a real (and good) drummer or guitar player is great, but in real life we don’t always…
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Beatstation review
Beatstation is the latest software-instrument from the sampling pioneers at Toontrack. This new product expands the company’s lineup of straightforward drum romplers, adding to the fold innovative user sampling functions as well as bass and lead instruments. Beatstation is a cross-platform standalone application and RTAS plug-in for Mac and Windows,…
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The Sonic Joy Awards 2009
2009 in a few words? A cool year for sound-design tools, as well as for reverbs. Hardware outboard emulations never sounded so good (unfortunately prices in most cases have considerably gone up), and performing tools got better, smaller and more affordable. Here below you’ll find our picks of the year,…
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EZdrummer, easy beats: from Jazz ( and related MIDI libraries) to Electronic
Toontrack’s EZdrummer, released in 2006, is known to be a quite effective percussive tool. It’s not oversized like its bigger brothers (Superior Drummer, Bfd, and so on), it’s powerful and very easy to use at the same time, it has a nice line of expansion kits, an integrated midi file…