If you call yourself a music fan, musician, or are involved in the music industry you need to see this movie right now.
you. need. to. watch. this. movie. right. now.
http://www.beforethemusicdies.com/
Olga is a virtual analog synthesizer unlike any other, designed from first principles to be distinctive.
Imagine a handmade experiment from an unlikely place, a synthesizer so full of life and character that it earns the right to be called a musical instrument. Olga encourages risk, experimentation, and exploration, and rewards you with unexpected and exciting sounds, vibrant and human. This is the dusty gem you could spend your life searching for.
Olga is the new VSTi Synthesizer from Schwa/Stillwell Audio. It has a great looking GUI that encourages experimentation.
It’s only just been released this week, so there are a few bugs, but Schwa has been making improvements daily. You can track the progress on this KVR post or on the Stillwell Audio Forums.
An evaluation copy of Olga may be downloaded for free. The commercial use license is $80, and the non-commercial Reaper only license is $40.
Enjoy!
The other day I was browsing and I was quite surprised by the amount of audio related projects there were. Here are just a few of the cool ones I saw.
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Check them out!
Here are some user demos of the Toys Breaking samples
Contributers:
Matthew Haw: myspace.com/matthewrhaw
Necrosensual: myspace.com/necrosensual
Vonbrucken: myspace.com/vonbrucken
Justin3am: 3amnoise.net
Lubi
Matthew Haw - Exorcising The Toystore [1:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Matthew Haw - Space Glitching [1:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Necrosensual - You've Got My Number [0:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Vonbrucken - Toys Breaking Demo [1:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Justin3am - Demo 1 [2:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Justin3am - Demo 2 [1:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Justin3am - Demo 3 [2:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Justin3am - Demo 4 [0:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Justin3am - Demo 5 [0:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Justin3am - Demo 6 [1:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Justin3am - Demo 7 [0:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Lubi - Broked [1:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadI’ll be adding more demos to this page as they are submitted.
What do we do if we have a large file (like a PT session) and we need to send it to someone?
We have a few options:
We could burn it to a CD or DVD (or copy to a hard drive) and mail/courier it. But that takes time and what if it gets lost on the way?
We could upload it to personal web space using FTP or online file manager. But that’s a bit complicated, and uses your bandwidth, which might result in downtime for your site. If you don’t have a website at all that is not an option.
We could make a private torrent and share it that way, but if its just 1 seed and 1 leach, its not the fastest way. Some people are opposed to this technology as well.
The best way would be to upload it to a website that offers free online storage and file sharing. There are dozens of these sites out there, I’ve listed a few below that provide free accounts, and some of the limitations of the free accounts.
Megaupload and Filefront are my favorites, and I loath Rapidshare.
To get around the max file size limits you should compress the file with .zip or .rar containers. If thats still not small enough, you should try split .rar archives. After downloading each rar part you just have to select them all, right click and extract to recombine the file.
If it is .wav files you are sending, you may want to try compressing with .flac, a lossless codec which can be decoded back to wav without losing a bit of information.
If you have a favorite sharing site to add to the list, let us know in the comments.
