Recorded at the Moogfest in North Carolina last year, this video features a live panel discussion on the topic of sound design with stories and techniques shared by panel members Eric Persing, Diego Stocco, Richard Devine and Scott Gershin.
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Sound design panel video with Spectrasonics Eric Persing
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Diego Stocco proves yet again that you can find musical inspiration in the most ordinary of objects
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Sick of the same old sounds? Can’t afford to splash out on a new sample collection? Why not take a leaf out of Diego Stocco’s book and get creative with everyday objects?!
Diego is one of Spectrasonics‘ extraordinary sound designers who was responsible for many of the sounds found in the company’s flagship synth Omnisphere including the infamous burning piano.
A man who sees music in the most ordinary of items, we’ve seen Diego create a bonsai tree instrument and compose a track using the sounds from a dry cleaners (see videos below). This week has proved even more that the talents of Diego know no bounds as he demonstrates that even the most simplest and mundane of objects can produce surprisingly impressive results… 
Spectrasonics user Rob Manning talks about his studio set-up and his career as a composer
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
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.
Producer Dennis Grell on producing the Nu Metal sample library from Zero-G
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
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.
Composer Cedric Vermue demonstrates how he uses ProjectSAM’s Symphobia
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
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.
Underworld announced as Musical Directors for Olympics 2012
Friday, December 9th, 2011
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.
DJ/Producer Glenn Morrison talks Late Nights, Early Beginnings
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
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.
Kasabian’s programmer Laurie Jenkins on why the band use Ivory II pianos
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Laurie Jenkins
Laurie Jenkins recently got in touch with Time+Space about Ivory II Upright Pianos and when he mentioned he was working as a programmer for English Rock band Kasabian we obviously wanted to find out more about how they were using Synthogy’s highly acclaimed software…
Hi Laurie, thanks for speaking with us, first up, could you tell us about your background?
Hi – I first started out as a session drummer for loads of different bands and toured pretty much constantly (biog is on www.lauriedrums.com) as well as owning a studio and partners in a production company where we produce/write loads of different things from our own music – music for tv/film etc. Then I started getting calls from people I have worked with in the past to sort people’s live rigs or programming people’s live shows so kind of fell into what I am doing now by chance really – to be honest the industry is getting tougher and tougher, especially the session side so I am very happy where things are at the moment.
Composer Ondrej Pochyly reviews VOXOS
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Ondrej Pochlyl
Last month composer Ondrej Pochyly performed an hour-long requiem at the Exeter Classical Music Event which had been composed entirely with virtual instruments. Cinesamples’ VOXOS Epic Virtual Choir was used extensively in the piece so we asked Ondrej to sum up his opinions of the software for our latest blog post.
Ondrej’s setup for the review:
Logic 9, Vienna Ensemble Pro (Decoupled), RME Baby Face, iMac i7Core, 12GB Ram, Vienna Suite, Kontakt 4 Player
Emmett Cooke on creating music for media and building a new composer community
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Irish composer Emmett Cooke writes minimal music, in particular, minimal piano music which has been used in many different projects from Spanish TV shows to Ralph Lauren adverts. His website sonicoctave.com showcases numerous tracks which can be licensed for film, tv or video game soundtracks and he is also responsible for filmandgamecomposers.com – an online resource for media composers which features interviews, advice, tutorials and a discussion forum.
Emmett is a customer of Time+Space and, with so many interesting projects on the go, we couldn’t resist getting in touch to find out more…
