IK Multimedia releases SampleTank 3

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IK Multimedia is now shipping SampleTank 3, the sound and groove workstation for Windows and Mac.

SampleTank 3 features a 33 GB sound library (containing over 4,000 instruments), 64-bit compatibility, completely redesigned user interface, 55 high-quality effects, new loop and groove management and an enhanced sample engine.

SampleTank 3 gives musicians a wider selection than ever before, with over 4,000 instruments to choose from in 21 categories that stretch across every genre and style imaginable — everything from acoustic to electric, ethnic to electronic and beyond.

All of SampleTank 3′s sounds have been sampled and crafted by IK’s team of professional audio engineers, with new lifelike expressiveness thanks to SampleTank 3 multiple articulations and new “round-robin” features. Musicians will enjoy the depth and nuance of their favorite instruments like never before: SampleTank 3′s pianos, drums, basses, guitars, synthesizers, brass, strings, vocals and other more exotic sounds shine brightly and stand out in any mix with little-to-no adjustment required.

Changes in SampleTank 3

Sounds
Over 33 GB of included sounds.
Over 4,000 new instruments with 21 instrument categories covering the entire span of acoustic, electric and electronic sounds.
Over 2,500 drum, percussion and full construction-kit loops played by world-renowned artists.
Over 2,000 MIDI files in all categories.
Software
Completely redesigned interface with 3 main environments: Play, Mix and Edit that retain SampleTank’s legendary ease-of-use and fast operation.
16 channel multi-part Play interface with easy layering and an integrated MIDI player and mixer.
All-in-one sound Edit page with 3 sample engines (including formant preserving pitch-shifting and time-stretching engines), 10 filter types and 8 macro controls per instrument for quick multi-parameter editing.
“Round robin” and multiple articulations that are triggerable via key switch, modulation wheel or velocity.
Multi-channel mixer-like Mix interface with 5 insert effects per channel, 4 stereo effect returns (with 5 insert effects each) and a master channel with 5 insert effects that allow for up to 30 effects per instrument.
55 high-quality integrated effects, including 22 new effects for mixing, mastering and more creative applications derived from IK’s studio-grade T-RackS and AmpliTube production software.
New Live mode lets you organize sounds for setlist and song for instant recall during performance.
Accurate 3D renderings of instruments for easy identification and recall.
Available as standalone and 64-bit plug-in for AAX, VST and Audio Units platforms on Mac OS X and Windows.
Compatible with all previous “Powered by SampleTank” sound modules and sounds (can import all previous sounds and Combis).

SampleTank 3 is available for the introductory price of $299.00 USD/239 EUR until September 30th, 2014. SampleTank 2 XL or Miroslav Philharmonik full users can upgrade for $149 USD/119.99 EUR, and users of other paid IK software pay $199 USD/159.99 EUR. Regular prices are $349.99 USD/279.99 EUR, $199.99/159.99 and $249.99/199.99 EUR, respectively. Prices excluding taxes.

 

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/sampletank3/index.php?pp=sampletank-3-info

Myriad PDFtoMusic Pro v1.4.2c

Myriad PDFtoMusic Pro v1.4.2c WiN/OSX-RBS Team RBS | July 20 2014 | WiN 10.4 MB | OSX 14.5 MBThe scores you created with your old score editor are no more compatible with the new one?

You own scores in PDF format, and you'd want to modify them with your favorite score editor?

Until now, the only solution was either to input your score again completely, or to print them and to use an optical recognition software to convert them, with more or less success, into editable documents.

This way of thinking now belongs to the past. From a document in PDF format (that you can generate from any software, even from discontinued products), PDFtoMusic Pro rebuilds the original score, and exports it for instance into MusicXML format, useable in most of the professional score editors.

Because it only processes PDF files that have been exported from a score editor software, PDFtoMusic Pro offers a unique reliability and outstanding results.
Therefore, scanned sheet music cannot be managed by PDFtoMusic Pro.

home page:
myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusicpro.htm

WiN

http://uploaded.net/file/8cbt68uk/Myriad_PDFtoMusic_Pro_v1.4.2c-RBS.rar
http://junocloud.me/uuiow8drpge8/Myriad_PDFtoMusic_Pro_v1.4.2c-RBS.rar.html
http://fileom.com/zu6in4wcek5f/Myriad_PDFtoMusic_Pro_v1.4.2c-RBS.rar.html
http://hulkfile.eu/06mybso6ic8u.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/97289a091fbb2011bda9d3abe5e0fd43/Myriad_PDFtoMusic_Pro_v1.4.2c-RBS.rar.html

OSX

http://uploaded.net/file/karzx4ke/Myriad_PDFtoMusic_Pro_v1.4.2c_MacOSX-RBS.rar
http://junocloud.me/3v0ti59c9wy8/Myriad_PDFtoMusic_Pro_v1.4.2c_MacOSX-RBS.rar.html
http://fileom.com/zds3dijfz37p/Myriad_PDFtoMusic_Pro_v1.4.2c_MacOSX-RBS.rar.html
http://hulkfile.eu/asmoog820lsy.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1d8ef93c2fe8e32005ff68baf93ffa88/Myriad_PDFtoMusic_Pro_v1.4.2c_MacOSX-RBS.rar.html

Frequency charts

 

A compilation of frequency charts I have collected over time I find very useful as a reference during mixing. Including a well known interactive-chart I modified to be used "stand-alone"
I hope you will find useful as well

http://uploadboy.com/0tk3l6314nwl.html

 

 

ASIO4ALL 2.11 Finalmente uma atualização!

There has been a mixup with the 2.11 downloads that has been corrected now. If you downloaded your ASIO4ALL 2.11 before having read this, please re-download and re-install!
Symptom of an old (broken) download would be stuttering playback with x64 hosts. Sorry for the inconvenience!


17 June 2014: Version 2.11 released!

Combined 32/64 bit version, supports Win 98SE/ME/2k/XP/MCE/2003/XP64 and Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8.x x86/x64

After more than 4 years, of course, this is a *major* update!

• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - English
• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - French (Translation: Guillaume Fallet)
• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - Italian (Translation: Gianfranco Minischetti)
• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - Portuguese (Translation: Marco Sa)
• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - Russian (Translation: Egor Petrov)
• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - Spanish (Translation: Ezequiel Festa)
• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - Turkish (Translation: A. R. Eren)
• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - Deutsch
• ASIO4ALL 2.11 - Chinese (English manual)

Changes since version 2.10:

• Improvement: Make an attempt to reclaim an unavailable audio device, includes workaround for a (confirmed) Windows bug.
• Improvement: Add general fixed factor resampling capabilty
• Improvement: Latencies now displayed for the preferred buffer size, if host elects to violate the spec.
• Improvement: Support for single common sample rate that is *not* a multiple of 8 or 11.025
• Workaround: Realtek PULL mode not supported for "odd" ASIO buffer sizes. Symptom was a "Beyond Logic" error depending on ASIO buffer size.
• Fix: Potential application compatibilty issue regarding ASIO reset request message
• Fix: Increased latency in x64 mode
• Fix: Pull mode _and_ latency display now working
• Fix: ASR issue with MSVC 2013 x64 -> Performance impact with hosts compiled with MSVC 2013
• Fix: UI appearance with different system locale
• Fix: Hang with some x64 hosts
• Fix: Crash on exit of A4Apanel64.exe
• Fix: Minor memory leak
• Fix: All known 2.11 Beta(1,2) regressions fixed!

http://uploadboy.com/clm277hsxm62.html

Academia Latina distingue Carlos do Carmo com Grammy pela sua obra

É a primeira vez que um português recebe a distinção.

Carlos do Carmo, um dos nomes históricos do fado, vai receber em Novembro um Grammy pela sua obra. A decisão foi tomada por unanimidade pelo Conselho Directivo da Academia Latina (Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) e foi comunicada directamente ao cantor na tarde de segunda-feira, 30 de Junho, e anunciada nesta terça-feira oficialmente à imprensa. É a primeira vez que um português recebe tal distinção.

No comunicado da Academia, que refere Carlos do Carmo como “um dos maiores fadistas do seu tempo” — realçando a influência da mãe, Lucília do Carmo, na sua carreira —, diz-se que as afinidades pessoais do cantor com a canção francesa e a bossa nova criaram nele “um inequívoco e definitivo estilo que o distingue como uma das mais icónicas vozes da música portuguesa”. A Academia refere ainda o papel-chave de Carlos do Carmo na bem-sucedida candidatura do Fado a Património da Humanidade.
Esta notícia é conhecida num momento em que ainda se celebram os 50 anos de carreira do cantor, comemorados com reedições históricas, concertos, um disco de parceria com fadistas das novas gerações (Fado É Amor) e uma exposição na Cordoaria Nacional.

O Grammy Lifetime Achivement Award, anunciou hoje a agência do cantor, será entregue a Carlos do Carmo no MGM de Las Vegas, EUA, no dia 19 de Novembro, mês em que, segundo a mesma fonte, se estreará um documentário sobre a sua vida.

Fonte: Publico

Positive Grid announces BIAS Desktop guitar-amp designer and modeler plug-in

Positive Grid has introduced BIAS Desktop, a groundbreaking guitar-amp designer and modeler plug-in for Windows and Mac.
BIAS Desktop

Available in VST, Audio Units, RTAS and AAX formats, BIAS Desktop features the most realistic modeler engine, Amp Matching (a pioneering first for DAW plug-ins), BIAS Expansion Packs and the ToneCloud preset-sharing platform. Amp Matching analyzes any live or recorded guitar tone and exactly recreates it within BIAS Desktop.

BIAS Desktop features:

BIAS — BIAS is an amp designer, modeler and processor that includes 36 of the most sought-after vintage and modern amps in rock ‘n’ roll history as a starting point for user customization. Users can modify these amps and virtually build their custom amps by swapping out the tubes, preamp, transformer, tone stacks, cab and mic to create their own distinctive signature sound. Users can also upload their amp creations to ToneCloud, BIAS’ own amp-sharing platform, to share their custom presets with other users.
Amp Matching — Amp Matching allows musicians to instantly replicate any real amp tone in the world, right in their Mac or PC. Simply input signal from a miked amp or pre-recorded guitar track, and BIAS Desktop will invisibly insert additional processing into the signal path to make your current amp precisely match the tone of the inputted guitar signal. No other plug-in can do this. Once the tone is captured and replicated, the user can save it as a custom preset and share it with other musicians on Positive Grid’s proprietary social network, ToneCloud.
Standard, Glassy, Crunch, and Insane — In addition to the industry-acclaimed BIAS Standard control modules, BIAS Desktop includes three new dedicated preamp and power amp modules optimized for various playing styles and tone: Glassy, Crunch, and Insane. Inside these new BIAS Expansion Pack modules, the controls for each preamp, power amp, cabinet and EQ module are tailored specifically to these three fresh styles, providing users with even more precise amp customization.
ToneCloud — ToneCloud is a proprietary social-networking platform that allows musicians to create, share and download over 10,000 custom BIAS amps, including those created and uploaded by signature recording artists. With BIAS Desktop, guitarists can share every possible amp tone, including those created using the new BIAS Expansion Packs and Matched Amps.

BIAS Desktop is schedule for release in Q3 2014. Positive Grid currently invites experienced and talented individuals to join them in shaping this project and give early feedback prior to the product’s release.

 

http://www.positivegrid.com/bias-desktop/

 

Mastering online and FREE

                                         Master Your Songs Online For Free @ LANDR

MixGenius has launched LANDR, an online mastering platform which can be used for free as long as you download your music in 192 kbps MP3 format.Drag-and-drop your mix-down to get an instant mastered preview which you can download in minutes. Tweak a few controls to refine your sound, and download!

Although mastering your music to 192 kbps MP3 files is a ridiculous idea in most cases, it’s actually the exact format you’d need for use on SoundCloud and similar streaming services. So, let’s take a look at LANDR and see what this platform offers for the price of free.

Mastering and free are two words which can hardly fit into the same sentence. For more than one good reason, too. Mastering is an advanced skill and a fine art at the same time, taking years and years of experience and hard work to become good at. It also requires a good listening room, perfectly treated to minimize the non-linearities caused by phasing and such.

So where does an automatic service like LANDR fit into the elite world of mastering? Can a website which takes your non-mastered track and returns the mastered version of it within minutes really do any good? I gave it a try and it did beat my expectations, although they were pretty low to begin with.

Just a little disclaimer. I’m well aware that an algorithm can never match the work of a real mastering expert. Every song is different, and there’s more to mastering than just tweaking parameters based on calculations. BUT – before I uploaded the test file, I though that I’d be perfectly happy with this if the program made the track loud enough to be used on SoundCloud and if it didn’t mess it up (made it sound worse than the mix). After all, what more can you expect from a free mastering service which runs on auto-pilot?

So, I’ve uploaded a mix of one of my recent tracks to LANDR and it basically took more time to upload the WAV file than to wait for the results. After the file was processed (I think I waited 5 minutes for this at most), I signed up for a free user account and downloaded the free master preview. This preview file is the same thing as what you’d get as a paid member, except that it’s downgraded to low bitrate MP3 format. Paid members can download full quality MP3 files and WAVs too.

The resulting master wasn’t breathtaking, it had several weak points too. But it wasn’t completely bad either. The loudness was good (at the cost of slight over-compression), the kick drum was more prominent, the percussion sounded better. Overall, the sound was a bit over-hyped and some parts of the track which were meant to be quieter were now as loud as everything else. The mid frequencies were skewed.

Bottom line, it matched my expectations and even performed a bit better than that. I wasn’t really expecting too much from it, though. The resulting master was acceptable for use on SoundCloud, or for playing a brand new track out live before paying for real mastering.

Give this one a try and let me know what you think. How does LANDR work on your music?

Some good points so far from the discussion in the comments section:

Sharing your music before releasing it official isn’t safe. (good point by Irion Da Ronin)
Compared to real mastering, the results are sub-par. (reported by Steven Walsh)

If you prefer doing things your way, take a look at our collection of free mastering plugins.

https://www.landr.com/#/