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… 
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.
Toontrack hint at expansion to their EZ line of software instruments in 2012
Friday, January 6th, 20122011 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?
String shootouts – what’s your preference?
Friday, January 6th, 2012
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!
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.
Rob Papen releases new 1.6.2 update for his Predator synth with a new video
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
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.
Free Ask Video tutorial on using the Time Warp feature in Cubase 6
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Once 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.
ProjectSAM Orchestral Essentials – is this another masterclass in cinematic sampling?
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
ProjectSAM have wowed the sound design world with their sample libraries for almost 10 years now. Starting with SAM Horns, the ProjectSAM range has blossomed and expanded to include an awesome arsenal of sonic orchestral firepower which is a force to be reckoned with. The award winning Symphobia, perhaps the most famous of the ProjectSAM products, gives composers instant access to epic modern ‘hollywood’ strings to rival any other library on the market.
iZotope Ozone 5 – Is this the ultimate software mastering tool?
Thursday, November 10th, 2011Recently unveiled at the 2011 AES show in New York, Ozone 5 is the latest incarnation of what iZotope call their ‘Complete Mastering System’. Many of you are probably already familiar with iZotope Ozone which has been an industry standard software mastering tool for many years now.
Here is a video of Tedd from iZotope giving the lowdown on Ozone 5 at AES….
There are a many major developments in Ozone 5 but perhaps the most mouth watering is that there is now an ‘Advanced’ version, which adds a whopping 6 extra component plug-ins and also extra functionality in each individual Ozone module. Having the option to load these modules individually into your DAW gives you much more flexibility when working with Ozone in your mixes.
iZotope 5 Advanced Spectrogram
Another massive new feature in Ozone 5 Advanced is the ‘Meter Bridge’ which gives the user a full suite of analysis tools which can be customized to suite your work flow. Perhaps the coolest of these is the Spectrogram which presents a real-time high resolution 3D representation of your audio.
Hey, but don’t just take it from me though, why not download a trial version of Ozone 5 now on the iZotope website and check it out now!
