Logidy UMI3

Super handy dandy gizmo:

Logidy UMI3

Very handy for turning off stomps in AmpliTube and MainStage.

Check out the video on their page, especially for the looper folks.

BigFish Audio Xtended Series

This the Library that ScrewMaker has been working on: BigFishAudio's Xtended Series

ScrewMaker Remix of Sol Skugga's "Share Tonight"

Check it here:

ScrewMaker Remix of Sol Skugga's "Share Tonight"

This mix was done in Pro Tools 8.

Sol provided Drums, Bass, and Vocal Stems.

Used some of the original drum tracks layered with the new drum tracks during the choruses.

Used the original synth bass layered with a new bass from Xpand. They played tag throughout the song.

Added an arp using Motu's MX4, a super gnarly synth !!!

Drums programmed using Structure with a bunch of old AKAI sample libraries, a couple of loops chopped up on individual tracks, along with the proverbial 808 Kik 'O' Doom and some Crashes from my Secret Stash of Gnarly Samples.

Guitars were mostly tracked thru MainStage using various Logic amp sims and Waves GTR Solo.

Used a hotrodded Strat thru a Boss pedalboard with goodies such as Dunlop DimeBag modified wah (thanks Geno Lenardo from Filter !!!), Boss Turbo Overdrive, Distortion, Comp, EQ, Flanger, Phaser, Chorus, Tuners, and a Dunlop Volume Pedal.

And of course the E-Bow !!!

Mostly used Digi EQ and DDL, TL Space, BombFactory LA-2a, Fairchild, and JoeMeek EQ and Comp, T-Racks EQ, Maxim, and Nomad Factory Analog Trackbox for the mix.

More Sol Skugga, including more ScrewMaker contributions here:

Sol Skugga at MySpace

Sol Skugga at ReverbNation


Rock On, Rock Free.

Contour Design Shuttle Pro 2

Just got one of these:

Contour Design: Shuttle Pro 2

Very stoopid handy dandy. You can program it to do all kinds of shortcuts and it has scroll and jog wheels.

Gnarly !!!

Blinko, Blanko.

iZotope RX

I've been working on a project lately where some stuff needs to be cleaned up. Bleed on microphones and stuff.

I'm using this: iZotope RX

Very impressive. It's like Photoshop for audio cleanup. Pretty darned idiot proof too. LOL. Check out the demo.

As you were.

YellowTools Independence

I've been checking out this sampler a bunch lately. Stoopid powerful. Awesome to program.

I've been using it for drum kits and crazy processed, arpeggiated synth and bass lines.

And the starter version is a free download: YellowTools Independence Free

Carry on.

Route 66 Studios

Have an older cool guy Ensoniq, Korg, Roland, etc. synth or sampler needing parts, manuals, drives, etc.?

Check out this: Route 66 Studios

Cool Dude. Cool service. Knows his shit !!!

That is all.

Audiofile Engineering: Yeah Boyyeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

I've started using some products from Audiofile Engineering for a project recently.

Holy Smokes is this stuff cool and powerful !

I'm using Wave Editor, Sample Manager, and Loop Editor for editing a loop library.

In conjunction with AudioFinder, this rig is unstoppable!

Cool Stuff.

That is all.

Mac OS9 on Intel

Well, for those still looking to use Mac OS 9 programs, Classic, which allowed one to use OS 9 on OS X, was discontinued awhile ago.

I like to use a couple of old OS 9 granular synthesis programs, ThOnk and Cloud Generator.

I tried out SheepShaver which is an emulation to allow one to use OS 9 on Intel Mac OS X. It works pretty awesome.

It also works with PC and Linux.

Check out more info here: E-Maculation

Kewl.

IcedAudio: AudioFinder

Wow!!! This is a stoopid kewl, super useful collection of nifty editing, collecting, finding, processing, converting, etc. of audio stuff.

Check it out. Very reasonably priced. I do not want to work without it !!!

IcedAudio: AudioFinder

That is all.

Can Jazz Be Saved?

Terry O'Gara at Critical Noise has an interesting post about music and context.

Check it here: Can Jazz Be Saved?

CommonHaus

ScrewMaker's band from back in the day:

http://www.myspace.com/commonhausmusic

Sol Skugga: Burn her

ScrewMaker has contributed guitar to Sol Skugga's new single "Burn her"

Check out Sol Skugga here. Very cool music !!! http://www.myspace.com/solskugga

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

One of the most important music production learn ons of all time:

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Go and get learned!

Guitars Of Doom!

ScrewMaker has contributed a file to the Air Users Blog with a cool video demo by Russ Hughes!

Guitars Of Doom!

NO!SPEC

Interesting. Very interesting.

NO!SPEC

Great Member Track

Great Member Track

Shared via AddThis

View of a Kind

Interesting site with links to various music and art and stuff from independent artists.

Check it out here:

View of a Kind

Airlift

Airlift

This is a little chillin' track that was created using sounds from the Air Users Blog. (Except for the reverse cymbals that come from my own secret stash of really cool guy samples. LOL).

I wanted to see how much I could get away with using one instance each of Digidesign's Structure and Transfuser, in Pro Tools of course. PT8 actually.

Within Structure, I used these 8 patches from the Air Users Blog:

Virus Piano Pad-The main riffage.

Urban Dance Kit-The kick and snare that run through the song.

Orchestral Percussion-For a couple of transitionary cymbal rolls.

Akai MPC60 Hi Hats-The hi-hats that accompany the kick and snare from the Urban Dance Kit.

It's A Sin Strings-These play a kind of counter accent to the main riffage from the Virus Piano Pad.

Scritti FM Piano-Plays a descending melody line near the end of the track, mixed a bit back.

Triton Marcato + Chamber Strings-This is actually two Air User Blog Patches that I layered into one patch.

Cymbals-I used these instead of the one's from my secret stash as I wanted to stay as only Air Users Blog sounds as I could.

In Transfuser these sample sets and loops:

AIR_Loop_36-This is the main loop, although 4 variations were used based on the original loop. I changed up some of the slices of kicks and such to better follow the changes and movements within the main riffage from the Virus Piano Pad.

Hybrid Filter Arp 3-I used only the first bar of this loop, with a variation for the ending notes. I played the pitch of the loop, as in what starting note, by assigning it it's own MIDI channel as in the AIR_Loop_36. I used Filter and Delay as inserts in Transfuser to further process the sound.

Def Drums-Loaded some samples from Nexus Drum Singles to create a drum kit with a bit of percussion at the end of the track, an additional snare in the middle, a doom kick thru-out and a snare fill and door slam towards the end of the track.

Hybrid Bass Arp Seq-I loaded this as a Phrase Sequencer as opposed to a REX Loop/Slice Sequencer as I wanted to use the first note of the loop to MIDI sequence a steady bass line. I used Tape Delay, Filter and Lo-Fi as inserts in Transfuser to further process the sound.

Airlift was mixed and mastered using Digi EQIII, Maxim, DDL, TL Space, BombFactory BF-2A, EQP-1A, Fairchild 660, and T-Racks EQ.

Thanks.

8PM

Here is a song utilizing Pro Tools Structure and Native Instruments Kore Player. Structure is freaking amazing !!! The more I dig into it, the more it does. I've loaded my EXS Libraries into it, which had come from my previous Akai, EMU, EXS, etc. samplers. It's really cool to be able to do all the processing in the box as opposed to the old days of routing to physical outputs to be routed to the counsole, etc. I tracked the guitars thru my Boss and Dunlop pedal board. I then applied Digidesign's Eleven plugin to the raw tracks using Audio Suite:

ScrewMaker: 8PM

And reviewed here:

8PM-ScrewMaker's Mid-Evening Crisis

The Kore Player is pretty neat. It loads many of the NI patches from their various products via Kore Soundpacks, collections of patches from things such as Absynth, Massive, etc.

And the price is awesome, like $60.00 bucks for libraries and the Player is without charge:

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : Products : Kore Line : KORE PLAYER

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : Products : Kore Line : KORE SOUNDPACKS

There is also a Free Kore Soundpacks Compilation available for download:

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : Products : Kore Line : KORE SOUNDPACKS : FREE COMPILATION VOL. 1

Thanks.