Highly influential electronic composer Bernard Parmegiani – a key member of Paris’ iconic Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), and a major figure in the development of 20th century electroacoustic music - has passed away. Parmegiani belongs to to the same pantheon as Luc Ferrari and François Bayle – groundbreaking French composers, operating in the orbit of musique … [Read more...]
Hans Zimmer Percussion : HZ01 : Behind The Scenes
Spitfire Audio have released a YouTube Featurette for their upcoming Hans Zimmer Percussion library. Recorded at Air Studios via an unsurpassable signal chain. 96 rarefied microphones, into Neve Montserrat pre-amps, the world’s biggest Neve 88R desk (which was exhaustively re-gained at every dynamic layer for optimum signal quality), via a dual chain to HDX and Prism converters … [Read more...]
Open AIR Library
The Open Acoustic Impulse Response (Open AIR) Library is an amazing resource for sound designers to share acoustical data, and most of the content on this site is released under Creative Commons licenses. … [Read more...]
Man Of Steel Soundtrack : Sculptural Percussion
Amazing behind the scenes footage of Chas Smith who created custom instruments which Hans Zimmer utilized as sound sources on the Man Of Steel soundtrack. … [Read more...]
FRICTION, a new sound library for HISSandaROAR
Tim Prebble releases a 'making of' for his new HISSandROAR sound library FRICTION. … [Read more...]
Soniccouture launch Geosonics ft. Chris Watson
Geosonics is a colloboration between legendary field recordist Chris Watson and Soniccouture. Hundreds of hours of recording time, in some of the worlds most extreme and inhospitable environments, combine to form a library of rare sonic artefacts that cannot be found anywhere else. Intro offer : €20 / $30 Off MSRP Enter Code :YA6ARGHW ends Midnight 24th August 2013 6 … [Read more...]
Tkapik from Inear Display
Inear Display have just released Tkapik, an amplitude controlled generative sampler. Add it to a track, then load a sound file and Tkapik will trigger the sample with random settings every time an amplitude peak is detected in the input signal. The sample can either be mixed with the input according to its amplitude envelope or completely replace the signal using the “solo” … [Read more...]