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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Machfive Creating Music and Sound for Games

Review

1. Overview of Integration of Music and Gaming. 2. Features Needed in Music Software for Game Music Composing 3. The Game Soundtrack-What it is and How it Works 4. Special Considerations Composing Cues for Games 5. Integrating Your Compositions with Game Clips 6. Syncing Your Composition to Game Scenes 7. Different Formats for Game Music 8. Submitting Your Game Music 9. Getting into the Game Music Industry App. A: List of Applications Mentioned

About the Author

G. W. Childs IV has not only published several books on Reason (Reason 7 Power, Going Pro with Reason), Ableton Live (Going Pro with Ableton Live) and sound design (Creating Music and Sound for Video Games), but he was also a sound designer on Reason itself. He's also had a highly successful career in designing sounds for games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: The Sith Lords, Star Wars: Battlefront, and more. As a remix artist he's remixed major acts like Gene Loves Jezebel, Ray Charles, James Brown, and more.

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Machfive MOTU Symphonic Instrument Plug-In

MOTU's Symphony is fantastic. There may be better Orchestra plug-ins that will come out as time goes by and for all I know they'll be in 5.1 surround and take up 500GB on your hard drive, but for $300, I'll take the 8GB worth of sounds MOTU offers. All of the instruments sound beautiful, and even the hard-to-reproduce instruments such as saxophones, church organs and solo strings (violins, etc.) sound almost too real to be emulated by a sampling program like this. Effects like glissandos and trills are included for these instruments as well. The only disappointing sound group is the choir; it's perfectly serviceable for minor oohs and aahs along with a huge Wagnerian orchestra, but upon close listening, you can tell it's a keyboard. E for effort, though.

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Machfive MOTU Symphonic Instrument Plug-In

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Machfive Pro Tools 6.1 and Beyond Paperback – February 24

Review

ATTENTION "PLUG-IN" GEEKS!!!!
There's a new book in town you need to check out.
PRO TOOLS BIBLE
PRO TOOLS 6.1 AND BEYOND) Author, musician & filmmaker David Leathers has written a valuable handbook for Pro Tools beginners with basic understanding in computers/audio recording, and also for the experienced user.
In two sections (nine chapters) Leather navigates through the core elements of the LE system/TDM systems. Section 1 exercises allow beginners to understand Pro Tools common processes such as recording tracks, scrubbing, bouncing, looping, and mixing.
Section 2 embodies an excellent reference for those interested in PLUG INS. PLUG IN = an additional software program that enhances a larger programs function. Mentioned downloadable tips including third party software make up a good portion of the books content entitled "the extended software environment." The outline includes basic definitions of EQ, special effects software with provided website info/links.
PLUG IN examples include PITCH DOCTOR by WAVE MECHANICS a plug in that automatically adjusts intonation and out of tune notes, and DIGI'S own noise/hum reduction plug-in (DINR), which analyzes and corrects tape hiss, guitar-amp buzz, and other unwanted noise leakage. The Pro Tools Bible serves as an outstanding hardcopy collection of products available for the Pro Tools user. (Female Musician 2004-05-03)

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Machfive Pro Tools 6.1 and Beyond Paperback – February 24

Monday, February 23, 2015

Machfive and Lessons, Tips and Inspiration from Music's Biggest and Best

Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest 48 used & new from $0.04 See All Buying Options Add to Wish List Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon See this image How to Make It in the New Music Business: Lessons, Tips and Inspiration from Music's Biggest and Best Paperback –

How to Make It in the New Music Business guides both novice and professional musicians into today's digital universe. The book shows how anyone can set up and run their own music business - and become highly successful - without the support of a major record label. It motivates musicians to live their dreams and take complete control of their careers, and offers information, and advice, and encouragement in writing, performing, and recording music, and broadcasting, marketing, and selling that music over the Internet. Interviews with major names in the music business enable readers to record major label-quality music in their homes and broadcast it over their own Website and radio station to listeners all over the world.

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

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Machfive AND Mark of the Unicorn MachFive Universal Sampler, Windows CD

Product Features

32-bit UVI engine
Up to 24-bit/192kHz
Drag-and-drop import of SampleCell samples/banks, GigaSampler files, and all other major sampler formats
Drag-and-drop import of all major audio file formats including Wave, AIFF, SDII, REX
Superb sound quality -- MachFive uses the UVI Engine -- acclaimed worldwide for its lush and powerful sound

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Machfive AND Soundscan 16 - Bossa Brazil - V2 (Audio, WAV, Acid, AIFF, Akai, EXS24, HALion, MachFive, Reason 2, REX)

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Machfive AND Soundscan 16 - Bossa Brazil - V2 (Audio, WAV, Acid, AIFF, Akai, EXS24, HALion, MachFive, Reason 2, REX)

IK Multimedia Sample Tank 2.1 XL Sample Playback Plug-In Workstation

Works as a standalone application as well as a plug-in in Mac OS (Universal Binary), and Windows (XP/Vista)
Supported plug-in formats: VST, RTAS, and AU
Imports WAV, AIFF, SDII, AKAI S-1000/3000 and SAMPLECELL
3 synth engines: newly enhanced STRETCHTM and Pitch-Shift/Time-Stretch (PS/TS) plus traditional Resampling
2 DVDs of sounds, 6.5 GB of samples and more than 1,800 patches included

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IK Multimedia Sample Tank 2.1 XL Sample Playback Plug-In Workstation

Lessons, Tips and Inspiration from Music's Biggest and Best Paperback – May 1

Machfive How to Make It in the New Music Business: Lessons, Tips and Inspiration from Music's Biggest and Best Paperback – May 1, 2004

Lessons, Tips and Inspiration from Music's Biggest and Best Paperback – May 1

Recently I was looking for a book to learn more about the music business, contracts, marketing, new ways of distribution, etc. I encountered this book and was surprised by the lack of reviews. But nevertheless I decided to get a sample into my kindle and read the first chapter. After that I bought it and kept reading. The book isdivided into 14 different lessons which are organized in a logical manner analogous to the way you go into starting a business, producing and album and selling it. The book covers a lot of material and it iswritten in a very friendly way, easy to understand, but still using a language that professionals are not to going to find silly (if you know what I mean). If you've been doing music for a while, you will find that many of the things you already do. But there are some not very obvious things that are worth the reading of the book. I am sure it will vary depending on the kind of experience you've had. I will say it is a very holistic , and not that superficial, coverage of the music business. It is a fact that music is changing so fast that without doubt many of the things in this book will soon be obsolete, i.e.software programs, websites, etc. So I hope that there is an update at some point in the future. This being said I don't feel the book is dated in any significant way at this point. If you are interested in music and music business you willdefinitely find some sound advice and a lot of inspiration in this book. It opened my mind in many ways.

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Lessons, Tips and Inspiration from Music's Biggest and Best Paperback – May 1