ScoreCleaner Notes: Hum, Whistle, Score

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The ScoreCleaner Notes app for iOS ($0.99) can turn any recorded monophonic melody into written musical notation. ScoreCleaner Notes, one of the best-selling apps in Sweden for the last few months, was developed by Sven Emtell at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, along with Sven Ahlbäck, a professor at the Music University of Stockholm.

Oscillate: Fourier Series on Fire (Vimeo)

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Daniel Sierra, a digital artist from New York City, just recently put his thesis animation done at the MFA Computer Art program in the School of Visual Arts on Vimeo. The audio-visual experience visualizes waveform patterns that evolve from fundamental sine waves to more complex patterns. It is now officially a Vimeo Staff Pick.

Samplephonics Introduces New TR 909 Sample Pack

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samplephonics tr 909 sample library

On a good day, somewhere in Pennsylvania in the early nineties, I bought a Roland TR-909 on Ebay. The deal closed at $900 – I paid $909. There’s nothing like the real thing – a good old 16th note snareroll (remember those?) coming from this box is still one of the hardest things to reproduce with samples. The trick is to have a lot of samples, and program patiently.

Waves Introduces GEQ

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waves introduces the geq

This just in my inbox: Waves just introduced the GEQ 30 band Graphic Equalizer, a full-featured graphic equalizer with both Classic and Modern mono and stereo components, featuring 30 ISO bands plus high and low pass filters, a high precision floating parametric EQ bell filter, and a real-time analyzer.

Native Instruments Bring You Reverb Classics

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Oh boy this reverb scene is getting mighty convoluted!

This in my inbox: Native Instruments just introduced Reverb Classics, offering two reverb plugins that recreate the sound of two of the most sought after reverb units in history. The plugins were created in collaboration with Softube.

10 Free Audio Samples Daily In 2013

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Mitchell Nordine is a 21 year young music producer, programmer and composer from Melbourne, Australia, currently studying a Bachelor of Music Industry at RMIT.

His new year resolution:

Welcome to the future! Happy 2013! I’m pretty sure this is the first New Years Resolution that I’ve ever really dived into… And I’m really flipping excited for it. Today I’m launching the Daily 10 Sample Series – Every day of this year i’ll release 10 HQ samples right here for free!

Waves Introduces Element Synth

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This just in: Waves just introduced a synth.

From Waves:

Introducing Element: The first ever synthesizer from Waves. Powered by Virtual Voltage™ technology, Element is an analog-style polyphonic instrument engineered to deliver the fat, gritty sound of the classics, with all the precision, flexibility and control of contemporary digital synths.

New Waves Plugins: REDD.17 and REDD.37 Console Classics

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Sunday, Console Classics day. How dare they release new stuff on our resting day?

Waves, working together with Abbey Road Studios, just released new plugins of two console classics: the REDD.17, which still belongs to Abbey Road Studios, and the REDD.37, of which Lenny Kravitz (who fearlessly released a mono record in 1992) is a proud owner. Waves ‘meticulously recreated the color, character and tonal complexity of the original desks’.

Christmas Countdown Sale At Plugin Alliance

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Twas the month before Christmas.

With the turkey fully digested and Black Friday behind us, here come the Christmas deals. Plugin Alliance – a union of some of the best-known international audio companies, is early this year. Starting December 1st, Plugin Alliance will offer discounts of up to 60% on their best selling plugins, every day until December 25th.

There must be something for everyone, with so many plugin companies under one roof: Brainworx, Chandler Limited, CharterOak Acoustic Devices, Neve Custom Series 75, Elysia, Maag Audio, Millennia Music & Media Systems, Noveltech Audio, SPL, and Vertigo Sound.

First up on December 1st, for controlling transients: SPL Transient Designer. List price $199, get it for $89.

See this page. And no, there’s nothing behind the other doors, yet…

Good luck!

Get Waves OneKnob Louder For Free

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I’m a huge fan of Waves Plugins, and often use the OneKnob Series plugins to quickly identify what my sounds may be lacking. In fact, I often find myself loading multiple plugins in one go. Waves is giving away one of those plugins for free this weekend to celebrate the Waves Black Friday Sale (with cuts up to 80%); all Waves wants is your email address in return.

Touching Sound: Samplr for iPad

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Samplr for iPad

Sounds like a fun app to try after making stems in Logic Pro: Samplr for iPad lets you make music and play with sound in a new and intuitive way by touching the waveform on the screen directly with your fingers. With an interface designed for live performance, it allows you to explore the sounds melody and texture using the different play modes and create your music compositions with the gesture recorder. Samplr was made by Marcos Alonso, a programmer, designer and musician from Barcelona, who’s known for his work on Reactable.