Grammy Latino de Carreira atribuído a Carlos do Carmo!

O fadista Carlos do Carmo recebe ontém o Grammy Latino de Carreira, no Hollywood MGM Theatre, em Las Vegas, no Nevada, antecedendo a entrega anual dos Grammy Latinos, na quinta-feira.

Além do criador de "Canoas do Tejo", recebem igualmente um Grammy de Carreira, por "Excelência Musical", Willy Chirino, César Costa, o Dúo Dinámico, Los Lobos, Valeria Lynch e Ney Matogrosso.

Nesta mesma cerimónia, prevista para as 10:00 locais (18:00, hora continental portuguesa), recebem o Prémio do Conselho Diretivo da Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (LARAS) os músicos André Midani e Juan Vicente Torrealba.

Para homenagear Carlos do Carmo, a Rádio Comercial reuniu 35 artistas para cantar "Lisboa Menina e Moça".

Parabéns de todos os Portugueses para Carlos do Carmo. Obrigado!!!!!

Slate Digital releases Virtual Mix Rack effect plugin

Slate Digital has announced the release of the Virtual Mix Rack, a channel strip effect plug-in for Windows and Mac.
Slate Digital Virtual Mix Rack

    The ‘VMR’ includes four world class mix modules, including two classic equalizers and two versatile mix compressors, with more modules to be developed.

    The ‘VMR’ operates as a Virtual 500 series rack with hot-swappable modules, putting your whole processing chain in ONE WINDOW. This allows you customize your own channel strip, with signal flow following the modules, in any order you choose. Mix and match filters from different EQs. Chain an EQ before or after your compressor. Moving modules around is easy, fast, and creates no break in audio playback. Audition signal chains faster, easier, and in real time with the Slate ‘VMR’.

VMR features:

    Customizable virtual rack of processors.
    4 world class mix modules.
    2 classic EQs, and 2 versatile mix compressors.
    Models every nuance of the circuit paths and recreates all that makes up their trademark tone.

VMR for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/AAX) is available for purchase for the introductory price of $149 USD for a limited time. A purchase also includes a free iLok 2 dongle.

More information: Slate Digital / Virtual Mix Rack

http://www.slatedigital.com/
http://www.slatedigital.com/products/vmr

DSK Dynamic Guitars

DSK Dynamic Guitars

Features and download:

Guitars VST instrument

– 3 Guitar types: Acoustic, Nylon & Steel
– ADSR envelove control
– Reverb fx included
– Dynamic velocity response
– Available for Windows and Mac (32 and 64 bits)

Download DSK Dynamic Guitars:

Windows VST 32 Bits 

 http://www.dskmusic.com/?wp_ct=1100124

Windows VST 64 Bits

http://www.dskmusic.com/?wp_ct=1100125

Mac VST

http://www.dskmusic.com/?wp_ct=1100127

Mac AU

http://www.dskmusic.com/?wp_ct=1100126


 

Marcel Blum releases Soundplant 42 software sampler

Marcel Blum has released version 42 of Soundplant, the first major update since 2010 of the popular computer keyboard sound triggering program following a yearlong beta.
Soundplant

Soundplant turns the standard QWERTY keyboard into a playable instrument with ultra low latency, allowing the instant playback of any format sound files on 72 keyboard keys with no need for extra hardware.
Soundplant’s cult following continues to expand the $50 software’s diversity of uses. Hollywood engineer Ed Novick used it in his 2010 Academy Award-winning sound mixing on Inception as well as in The Dark Knight Rises, Moneyball, and other films. Surf rock band Man or Astro-Man? played their sci-fi samples with Soundplant; metal band Nile used it for exotic percussion. When the foley artists of NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion aren’t handmaking their sound effects, they turn to Soundplant for a digital assist. The NFL’s Tennessee Titans used it at LP Field stadium. Soundplant even made it to Carnegie Hall, with new music champion Paul Pinto performing on the software for the 2014 premier of composer Erin Rogers’ Mother Earth. Organizations like London’s Drake Music taught disabled children to create music through Soundplant’s intuitive simplicity, and artists, educators, and DIYers delighted kids and adults with Soundplant-powered installations like the 2013 New York Maker Faire Editor’s Choice Award-winning xylophone drum pad Nazca Beats.

Soundplant, now in its 15th year, turns an input device you’ve been practicing on for as long as you’ve been typing into a versatile multitrack playback tool, providing hours of audio at your fingertips while avoiding the need for expensive dedicated hardware. New version 42 maintains its beloved rock-solid stability, low cost, straightforward drag-and-drop sound file assignment, and powerful flexibility as standalone software, while bringing new features such as 32-bit floating point mixing and 96 kHz output for audiophile accuracy, 256 channel polyphony for rich sound design, several new lightweight realtime effects, direct output recording, and finer key press and release control. You can continue triggering sounds while using any other program with Soundplant hidden, and launch an unlimited number of Soundplant instances allowing outputting to multiple sound devices, multitrack recording, and more banks of sounds. Soundplant works identically on Windows or Mac and keymaps can be transferred across computers with ease.

Soundplant is free for non-commercial use with limitations on some professional features. The registered version is available for purchase for $50 USD ($40 USD upgrade from v.39).

The registered version allows expanded sound file format support, audio output device selection, higher quality output sample rates, recording, and background triggering.

More information: Soundplant



http://soundplant.org/downloads/Soundplant42_Win_setup.exe

http://soundplant.org/downloads/Soundplant42.dmg

http://soundplant.org/download.htm

 

 

FL Studio 12 Beta Out Now!!

FL Studio 12 Beta Out Now!! 

Only registered clients can test it. Good test!

https://support.image-line.com/login/login.php?r=http://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic.php?p=962649#p962649

Toontrack releases Metal Guitar Gods 2 for EZmix 2

Toontrack has announced the release of Metal Guitar Gods 2, a new EZmix pack for the EZmix 2 multi-effect mix tool for Windows and Mac.

    This expansion for EZmix 2 comes with guitar and bass settings directly modeled and EQ-matched from the personal tones of four of modern metal’s most interesting players: Chris Broderick (Megadeth), Tosin Abasi (Animals As Leaders), Jeff Loomis (ex-Nevermore, Conquering Dystopia) and Ryan Knight (The Black Dahlia Murder). It’s a follow-up to the smash hit first pack in the suite, which was released in 2012 and featured Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah), Devin Townsend (Devin Townsend Project), Misha Mansoor (Periphery) and Mattias IA Eklundh (Freak Kitchen).

    Metal Guitar Gods 2 EZmix Pack includes 50 custom amp and cab simulated tones, all of which were personally designed by the guitarists themselves. Find the soaring, saturated leads, the pummeling rhythm tones and all the tight semi-clean, ambient and effect soaked tones you’ll need for any spur-of- the-moment creativity.

    This collection is a speed-dial to the tones you hear on albums and that the artists use themselves in their own recording and creative processes. Now, you too can sound like a god.

Metal Guitar Gods 2 features:

•     Approx. 50 guitar or bass settings based on amp and cab simulation.
•     Modeled and EQ-matched directly from the artists’ personal tones.
•     Rhythm, lead, clean and ambient tones.

The pack is available for purchase for 39 EUR.

More information: Toontrack / Metal Guitar Gods 2

http://www.toontrack.com/

http://www.toontrack.com/product/metal-guitar-gods-2-ezmix-pack/

Morreu o guitarrista Manitas de Plata

Figura do flamenco tinha 93 anos.

Manitas de Plata, o guitarrista que popularizou a música cigana e o flamenco em França onde foi campeão de vendas, morreu na quarta-feira à noite, anunciou a sua filha Françoise. O músico estava internado num lar de idosos no Sul de França, onde morreu aos 93 anos rodeado pela sua família.

Ricardo Baliardo, conhecido mundialmente como Manitas de Plata, nasceu em Agosto de 1921 na roulotte da sua famíla em Sète, onde estava instalada uma importante comunidade cigana. O seu pai era negociante de cavalos e desde os nove anos que Ricardo tocava guitarra - sem saber ler uma única nota de música - influenciado pelo seu tio.

Mais tarde, quando já lhe chamavam Manitas de Plata, actuava em esplanadas da Cote d’Azur e entrou no círculo de amigos do poeta Jean Cocteau, dos artistas plásticos Picasso e Salvador Dalí e da actriz Brigitte Bardot. Picasso aliás, em 1964, terá subido ao palco durante um concerto e dito: “A arte deste homem é superior à minha”.

Através do fotógrafo Lucien Soergue, que o recomendou a produtores norte-americanos, foi para Nova Iorque onde actuou e triunfou no Carnegie Hall, como recorda a AFP. Era considerado o sucessor de Django Reinhardt.

Morreu na ruína. Dizia ter duas paixões - a música e as mulheres. Tocava com paixão e sempre viveu o dia-a-dia sem preocupações com o futuro. Ao longo da sua vida vários foram os que dependeram monetariamente dele - mulheres, filhos, tios, sobrinhos… Confessou ter tido várias mulheres ilegítimas, não sabia quantos filhos tinha ao certo, dizia ter tido entre 24 e 28 mas só reconheceu 13. Houve um tempo em que foi considerado o artista europeu mais conhecido no mundo, refere a AFP, deixando mais de 80 discos gravados e 93 milhões de álbuns vendidos em todo o mundo.

Fonte:
http://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/morreu-o-guitarrista-manitas-de-plata-1675342