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How To MultiTrack Record With Garageband 09

By Big Al on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 | 4 Comments

Big O shows you what you need to know to use multitrack recording in GarageBand ’09. Here’s how he introduces this tutorial: In this tutorial I walk you through how to do multitrack recording in Garageband 09. I’m not covering software instruments or MIDI, that will have to be a different tutorial. Most of what [...]

Spectrasonics’ Eric Persing With Omnisphere And Trillian At NAMM 2010

By Big Al on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Free updates and an iPhone app for remote controlling Omnisphere! Click here to visit the official Spectrasonics site Thanks to the great team over at Sonic State for this.

A New Charles Dye Mix For Artist Griffin Anthony

By Big Al on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Here’s a new tune from Griffin Anthony that was mixed by Charles Dye. It’s called, “Above All” from the album “Crazy Ways.” Using a screen reader? Click here for the video.

A New Player In DAW Saturation Plugins – Slate Digital

By Big Al on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

I’ve been a believer in adding saturation in the DAW via special plugins ever since becoming acquainted with the idea via Charles Dye’s Mix It Like A Record interactive video mixing course. As I learned there, I’ve been using McDSP’s Analog Channel, several of the DUY plugins (including DaD Valve, DaD Tape, etc.), Steven Massey’s [...]

Synthogy Ivory II – The Next Generation Grand Piano Plugin

By Big Al on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Maybe people have considered the original Synthogy Ivory as the pinnacle of grand piano virtual instrument plugins (as well as upright pianos with the expansion pack), as well they should. It’s a fabulous instrument. You almost need a separate hard drive to hold the library, but it’s worth it. Now Synthogy has released the next [...]