Digidesign A.I.R. Transfuser RTAS instrument Free Preview
By Jon | May 6, 2008
Copy and pasted from Digidesign:
Digidesign is excited to introduce the Transfuser™ Preview — a free three-month prerelease version of Transfuser, a brand new, upcoming RTAS® virtual instrument plug-in for Pro Tools® from the Digidesign Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group. Transfuser is an innovative, real-time loop, phrase, and groove creation workstation that allows you to quickly and easily create, manipulate, and perform loop- and rhythm-based music on the fly. Ideal for electronic, hip-hop, and dance music production, remixing, and anyone working with loops, Transfuser comes packed with a variety of loops and phrases to get you started creating right away. It also offers a great way to quickly and easily modify your existing loop libraries to breathe new life into your creations
- Easily develop and tweak grooves on the fly within Pro Tools
- Offers unique tools for working with audio files, including:
- Real-time slicing and tagging of loops
- Automatic conversion of loops into
MIDI patterns/drum kits - Sound replacement in existing loops on the fly
- Musically intelligent randomization of loops for instantly crafting variations on a whim
- Offers a wide range of real-time effects for electronic, hip-hop, and dance music creation
- Includes a variety of loops and phrases, and breathes new life into existing loop libraries
- Supports full drag and drop of Pro Tools regions and audio files from your computer browser
- Powerful live performance-oriented features allow for both creative arranging and performing of grooves
As Great as Native Instruments stuff is, they’re pretty unstable in the current version of Pro Tools. Rather than waiting for NI to get the plugs working right, Digidesign’s Advanced Instrument Research department has given the Pro Toolers another reason to forget about NI. Transfuser looks to be in competition with Kontakt. Looks pretty awesome to me, and judging from the samples it sounds awesome too.
I can’t wait to try it out.
http://www2.digidesign.com/transfuserpreview/index.cfm
Thanks to Dr. J for the heads up on this.
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I can has Pro Tools?
By Jon | April 29, 2008
I just spent a full day trying to figure out what was causing my sessions to get corrupted and the general system instability. I believe it is a combination of a hard drive error and outdated plugins.
Everyone follow along at home:
Check all your drives for errors.
Install the latest version of Pro Tools, 7.4 cs4.
Run the digidesign plugin updater. http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?langid=100&navid=54&itemid=28250
Check all your other plugins to verify they are up to date.
Don’t worry, I’ll write a real post soon.
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Prescriptions for Fever
By Jon | April 22, 2008
Via GraphJam
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Pro Tools Session archiving video
By Jon | April 21, 2008
Remember this article from way back? http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=200
Here’s a video I made for to go along with it but never posted do to the lack of video capabilities at the time.
Its also available on YouTube
Online Videos by Veoh.com
Comments please.
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F.U. Pro Tools
By Jon | April 20, 2008
I’m getting pretty sick of things like this multiple times a day. This is after it refused to save my project.
I guess I should add some more explanation to this.
This error was caused by corrupted database files. At first it was unable to save a backup, then it refused to save, then it refused to exit.
It can be corrected by deleting the “Digidesign Databases” folder from each drive.
This situation cannot be prevented as far as I know, other than to delete the databases folders regularly and SAVE OFTEN!
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Shocking News!!!
By Jon | April 18, 2008
I’m switching from Pro Tools to Sonar.
Topics: Pro Tools, Software, Sonar, commentary | 9 Comments »
Cheap Mic Shootout #1 part 2, now 600% geekier!
By Jon | April 15, 2008
Since someone geekier than myself has requested graphs and charts etc for the mic shootout, here they are. I used Sigview for the spectral analysis, I have no idea if I did it right, nor do I care about the results. I use my ears.
Geek on, click to embiggen.
Topics: Gear, Microphones, Shootout | 5 Comments »
Cheap Mic Shootout #1
By Jon | April 14, 2008
Since some of you want to know what the ES-57 sounds like I thought I’d do a quick shootout with some of my other budget mics. I’ll do a more complete comparison with it vs a real sm-58 another time.
The mics:
- Shure PG-58 ~ $60 - tested with and without the pop screen
- GLS Audio ES-57 ~ $30
- Shure PG 52 ~ $120 - tested with and without the pop screen
- Audio Technica AT-2020 ~ $100
Original DI guitar track [0:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download PG-58 [0:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download PG-58 No pop filter [0:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download ES-57 [0:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download PG-52 [0:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download PG-52 No pop filter [0:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download AT-2020 [0:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTopics: Gear, Microphones, Shootout | 10 Comments »
Hey what’s this?
By Jon | April 12, 2008
I got a delivery.
What could it be? Read the rest of this entry »
Topics: Gear, Microphones | 1 Comment »
Random link du jour
By Jon | April 3, 2008
Recording:
- Sound On Sound Glossary: common technical terms associated with Recording, MIDI, Audio, Computers and Music Technology
- I suck at reverb: from The Womb, great tips and techniques for using reverb more effectively.
- Recording Rhythm Guitars With Darkane. Metal band Darkane give us a look inside their studio working on their new album.
Plugins:
- Studio Devil VGA is now available in RTAS for PC + Mac. I did some Beta testing on this one and it rocks! Very easy to use, zero latency, very low cpu, there’s nothing like it in this price range. http://www.studiodevil.com
- MIDIplugins.com: pretty much every MIDI plugin ever and where to get it on this site.
- Kammerl-Kaske-VSTs, a suite of 5 free sound manipulating vsts with some ‘inspirational’ GUIs. NSFWish
- C. Hackl Stereo Steinway Piano. Based on 96 Khz, 24 Bit, samples of a Steinway piano. This is my favorite free piano plugin.
Songwriting:
- Measure For Measure, a new blog from the NY Times focusing on the songwriting craft.
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