To coincide with this week’s newsletter feature on sound effects, we spoke to Boom Library Sound Designer Michael Schwendler and Creative Director Axel Rohrbach about the process of recording sound effects both in the studio and on location and how they produced their recent releases…
Rob Manning has been working in music for more than 10 years with his soundtracks perhaps more familiar to British television audiences having composed original music for numerous BBC, ITV and Channel 4 documentaries including Louis Theroux, Dispatches, Gordon’s Great Escape, Heston Blumenthal’s Feasts and Cutting Edge. His credits also include comedies and production music for the likes of Universal and MTV.
Rob’s studio is based in North London with a valve desk, a large and diverse collection of instruments plus an extensive library of virtual instruments including Spectrasonics Omnisphere. Naturally we wanted to find out more so we caught up with Rob to talk about his career and his studio set up.
Towards the end of 2011, Zero-G released Nu Metal – a multiformat sample library crammed with blood-curdling vocals, bone-breaking drums, blood-soaked bass and guitars heavier than plutonium.
The German music production magazine, Keys, recently interviewed the producer of Nu Metal – Dennis Grell. This young producer is affiliated to the globally renowned Peer Music music publishing company and, amongst his many projects, he has produced numerous metal bands including the likes of Milgrim and The Surge. Keys magazine has kindly allowed us to publish the following translation from the interview.
2011 was a massive year for Swedish drum maestros Toontrack. They released over 30 titles and while many were midi packs and producer presets for their existing instruments and expansions, they unveiled 4 new EZXs -- Classic, Number One Hits, Americana & Metal Machine and the 2 new Roots SDXs.
In a recent video posted on their Youtube channel, Toontrack hinted at what we can expect in 2012. Take a look at the video -- can you guess what it might be?
Miguel d'Oliveira
You may remember award winning film and TV composer Miguel d’Oliveira from an interview we did with him on the Time+Space website back in 2008. Miguel uses many plug-ins from Time+Space brands and we were interested to hear that he’d started producing his own short videos in and around his busy work schedule.
The first of these two videos can be viewed below and see Miguel comparing LA Scoring Strings, ProjectSAM Symphobia 2, VSL and East West Symphonic Orchestra on the legato strengths of their low strings as well as a spicatto shootout. Have a listen (and watch) and let us know which you prefer!
Cedric Vermue is a hugely talented 18-year old composer from the Netherlands who has gained quite a following for his incredibly impressive compositions showcased on his YouTube channel.
Playing the piano and classical music is Cedric’s main source of inspiration and right now, he is taking a gap year during which he is composing the soundtrack for an Argentinian feature film.
When we discovered that Cedric uses ProjectSAM‘s Symphobia 1 and 2 within his scores, we got in touch with him to ask if he’d put together a short video about how he uses ProjectSAM’s critically acclaimed plug-ins and, very kindly, he obliged.
Rob Papen has just posted a new version of Predator which is now available for free to registered users. There are many enhancements including new filter types, new presets and an alternative GUI colour. Predator has become a industry standard virtual synth plug-in across many genres of music because of it’s easy to use interface, amazing presets and high quality engine.
Once again Ask Video have kindly delved into their Santa’s sack of tutorials and pulled out a special gift for the T+S blog crew.
This tutorial is taken from the Ask Video Cubase 6 Level 3 tutorial package which features 37 videos and over 3 hours of professional instruction. Ask Video Cubase 6 Level 3 covers topics like offline processing, surround sound, transposing audio and pitch correction.
With the Olympics heading to our shores next year, there’s been much talk about the opening ceremony and whether the UK can outshine the spectacular show delivered by Beijing in 2008.
This week Electronic duo Underworld, who are perhaps most commercially famous for their track ‘Born Slippy’ from the 1996 film ‘Trainspotting’, were announced as Musical Directors for the opening ceremony.
Glenn Morrison is a major rising player in the global dance music scene. Hitting number one on the Beatport sales chart, remixing the Pet Shop Boys and New Order’s Bernard Sumner, signing tracks to EMI, Azuli, Positiva, Armada, Hope and Great Stuff, and receiving acclaim from the cream of the world’s top DJs (including Sasha, Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Justice, Nick Warren, John Digweed, Laurent Garnier and Sven Vath).
This week, Glenn Morrison adds another credit to his name with the release of ‘Late Nights, Early Beginnings‘ – the latest sample collection from Zero-G which delivers inspirational samples that cross numerous dance genres.
We got in touch with Glenn to find out more about the man behind the music and how he produced the library.
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