Chip Collection Sweepstakes

just a reminder you can still enter the Reason Refill giveaway Here
One person will get all the refills in the store burned to DVD/ and mailed to their house.

Reason Song Tutorial Part 2

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Propellerheads Reason Song Tutorial - make a full track in less than 20 minutes!

Here is part one of a free video tutorial I made on how to use Propellerheads Reason. Goes through recording, composition, and even a little bit of mastering at the end. You can use these tips in your own songs and expand upon them. The quality is a little shoddy because its youtube…google video version coming soon. Part two will be posted tomarrow.

NES Wave Pack Reason Refill - Nintendo Sound!

Now available:

NES Wave Pack Reason Refill as well as other cool refills by Chip Collection. Designed to give you a fully recreated NES to make chip tunes. I just wanted to remind everyone and that we also have other sweet handmade refills for download with Paypal. Click here

Also be on the lookout for a new Reason tutorial video to be posted here for free later this week.

Vector-Synth VST by Hercs Music Systems

• Viktor
• Windows VST
• Vector Morphing Synth
• Its in development
• There is not much else known about Viktor as It has only been just anounced. Vector synthesizer technology is very cool, so I can’t wait till we know more.

HercMusicSystems

1 Bit Audio Interface & Mobile!?

This Looks pretty fresh. A mobile recorder from korg. Whats so special about it? 1 bit recording!!! Supposedly these recorders double the bitrate of my current audio interface. Thats really sad (for me) with my edirol audio interface. I want it!!!

Korg M1000 Product Page

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Korg Announces K61P USB-MIDI Studio Controller

K61P combines computer controller features with built-in, high-quality, stereo-sampled acoustic and electric pianos

So its a midicontroller that they put some piano sounds into. Korg is scared that people are going to stop buying their keyboard workstations, so they are marketing a regular keyboard as a midi controller I see.

Like other K-series models, the K61P comes bundled with Korg’s M1 Le software synthesizer, a complete software version of the classic M1 Music Workstation. As a bonus, K-series users can upgrade at a special “Preferred Owner” price to the Korg Legacy Collection – Digital Edition, which comprises a significantly enhanced version of the M1 software synthesizer, the WAVESTATION v1.6 software synthesizer and the MDE-X v1.2 multi-effect plug-in.

Ah! I this is also a product intended to get you purchasing their software.

Whatever happens I hope that its a really good midi controller, because it seems kind of expensive for a keyboard with a couple of piano sounds. Full press release and links after the break.
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Why digital samplers sound like crap

A neat technical article on why samplers that use cd-quality 44.1khz sound are crappy.
Digital Sucks

Adobe Soundbooth

Adobe just released an audio editing program called Soundbooth. Pick up the beta at versiontracker.com

Music Gear in Second Life

Wired has an article on music gear is being sold in second life.
Wired Article

This is not new at all, however. I was one of the first people to do this months ago, selling boxy 3d drum machines & remixing tools. Of course you can’t actually use them, because its in Second Life. Second life lures you in with profit, but its actually the game makers who are really getting rich. Thanks Wired for more news about a really boring game!!!

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