Friday July 31, 2009 Remaking the Tron Legacy trailer soundtrack in Ableton Live
Far be it from us to suggest that there are certain computer musicians out there with too much times on their hands, but check out this trailer for the follow up to Disney's 80s cult classic sci-fi flick Tron:
And here's the same trailer,...
Tuesday July 28, 2009 Automatically make your own Donk remixes online
Online music production has hit new heights with www.donkdj.com. This amazing, innovative site allows you to upload an mp3 and turn into a slammin’ Scouse House anthem in minutes.
Is this the future of dance music? If not, what can top it?
Friday July 24, 2009 DCAM diary part three: Cypher
For our final sneak peak at the synths of DCAM we’re looking at Cypher. This bad boy has FM, RM, and WM, so if you like various forms of M you’re in for a treat!
Here are some demos from the included presets, but you’ll have to wait for CM144...
Thursday July 23, 2009 We play with DCAM’s Amber synth
Today we’ve been using Amber from FXpansion’s DCAM synth package. It's based on classic string machines, but also includes a format filter to get some tasty vocal-style noises going.
Here are some demos from the included presets, but you’ll...
Wednesday July 22, 2009 We get our hands on FXpansion DCAM
It’s a been a long, long time coming, but we’ve finally got our hands on FXpansion’s DCAM Synth Squad soft synth suite. The package includes three synths: Amber, Cypher, and Strobe, plus a shell called Fusor which can layer up to three synths along with insert...
Tuesday July 21, 2009 Mercurial plug-in developer wants your opinion
On his personal blog, the splendidly cantankerous Chris Randall of Audio Damage – developers of the fabulous DubStation, BigSeq, Eos, Kombinat, amongst others – is courting opinion on what the company should make next. Apparently, they already have something in mind but are open to the possibility that "your idea could be better than our idea".
So, if you've got an idea for an effect the likes of which has never been seen before, tell Chris about it here.
Friday July 17, 2009 £4 off at ClickProduce, PSP Nitro for $10 and Overloud Breverb for $5!
Get £4 off a sample pack from ClickProduce and find out where you can get PSP Nitro for $10 and Overloud Breverb audioMIDI Edition for $5! ...
Monday July 13, 2009 Microsoft: DJ Innovators?
Okay, so it’s not really what we’d call DJing (not even in an extremely loose, Ableton Live-era way), but this demo from Microsoft of their new Surface technology along with Vectorform's DJ v2.0 alpha software certainly hints at some interesting possibilities:...
The sound design of Terminator 2
Here at Computer Music we’re actually looking forward to the inevitable day that heartless machines take over the world, but in the meantime we’re contenting ourselves with this rather interesting article on the sound design of Terminator 2: Judgement Day ....
Tuesday July 07, 2009 What plug-ins couldn’t you live without?
Not all plug-ins are created equal, and while some might entertain you for a mere brief moment, others are more substantial affairs that you’ll return to time and time again. Music Radar wants to know which plug-ins you like so much that you’d struggle to...
New plug-in supports Cancer Research UK
ballistic, the new drum machine plug-in from de la Mancha (of Erratic CM fame), is the world’s first cancer-fighting plug-in. A mere $10, all money raised from sales of the plug-in will be donated to Cancer Research UK.
The easy to use PC VSTi features...
Friday July 03, 2009 Band record entire song on iPhone. Apparently.
American middle of the road alterna-rockers The 88 have apparently recorded their latest iTunes release entirely on an iPhone using Sonoma WireWorks' FourTrack .
It sounds suspiciously good, production wise, and the video is a bit...
Computer Music 141 on sale – Make a track in Reason!
Computer Music 141, August issue, is on sale now! Make a track in Reason, Propellerhead Record hands-on preview, Pressure Drop Producer Masterclass, NI Guitar Rig 3 LE and 2207 CM Nu-gaze samples on the disc, and much more! ...
WIN 2CAudio Aether and a Galbanum sample pack!
Enter CM141's competition and you could win one of 10 copies of 2CAudio's fantastic Aether reverb – each winner gets a Galbanum sample pack too! ...
Thursday July 02, 2009 A Komplete Bargain!
Here at Computer Music we love a good deal, and this particular deal is pretty hard to beat. Native Instruments are offering their all-encompassing Komplete 5 package (which includes Kontakt 3, Guitar Rig 3 Software Edition, Massive, Reaktor 5, Abysnth 4,...
