About a week ago Spectrasonics gave owners of the Bob Moog Tribute Library a nice surprise. To mark the 10th Anniversary of this library, Spectrasonics updated it to Version 2.0 and gave owners 500 new patches for free. There is…
Mar 8 2021
Omnisphere Search - How to find that patch
Omnisphere is a powerful and vast software synthesizer come rompler come sample engine. Out of the box, it comes with over 14,000 patches for you to play with, but how do you go about finding the one you want. I’m…
Jan 20 2021
Omnisphere - CPU Management
In this Omnisphere tutorial, we are going to look at CPU Management. I think we all know what a resource hog Omnisphere can be, but there are ways of taming this beast.
Omnisphere itself is multitimbral, but unfortunately, it is…
Jan 9 2021
Hyperfocus - Book Recommendation
Hello everyone, this blog post is something slightly different as we're going to talk about a book that I've been reading. It's called Hyperfocus - How to Work Less and Achieve More by Chris Bailey. This is a really good…
Jan 2 2021
Setting Goals for 2021
Well, here we go with a whole new blank canvas to start with, Happy New Year. We've made it to the other side after 2020, which has been a terrible year for so many people in more ways than one…
Dec 23 2020
Oblivion Patch Library for Omnisphere by Tom Wolfe
I had the privilege of playing with Oblivion, a patch library for Omnisphere made by Tom Wolfe. This particular Tom Wolfe is neither the author nor the music supervisor, but he does create some stonking patch libraries for Omnisphere. These…
Dec 9 2020
Heavyocity: Ascend Modern Grand - Sample Library
Before I being, this is just not any ordinary piano sample library, this is a Heavyocity sample library. If you haven't come across Heavyocity before, they have created a whole stable of sample libraries that are great for those hybrid…
Nov 27 2020
Spectrasonics Trilian Update
The other week Spectrasonics provided an update to their flagship bass synth, Trilian. This already was a great synth/rompler for creating deep earth-shaking bass sounds. The update brought with it 200 brand new sounds for us to play with, you…
Nov 20 2020
News from the week 16th November 2020
If you missed this week's Twitter feed, here's the best news from the music front condensed into one post.
Developer Hagai Davidoff has released ZoneMatrix and turns Native Instruments Kontakt into ‘A Monstrous Performance Tool’ You can find out more…
Nov 14 2020
News for the Week - 9 November 2020
The weeks keep flying by and we have another jam-packed week of news for you. So without further ado, we wave goodbye to some wires as Genki instruments introduce Wavefront and bring Bluetooth MIDI to your modular synthesizer - https://youtu.be/OxGjLVSPjCE…
Nov 6 2020
News from the week - 2 November 2020
We have had another busy news week. To keep up to date follow me on Twitter and never miss a beat.
First up we had Modal Electronics who announced a new virtual analogue waveform synth Cobalt. Head on over to…
Oct 30 2020
Midi to Audio
This is something that I wish I had learned right at the beginning of my music-making career. Do you, or should you, bounce or convert your midi tracks to audio? It can be said that a project is not truly…