One of the goodies that ended up in my studio thanks to the holidays season is Cakewalk Sonar Studio 8.5, widely acclaimed DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). As a long time user of Cakewalk’s software products, I was looking forward to seeing what’s the latest and the greatest in the Sonar line. There is no shortage [...]
The holiday parties are mostly over, but the hangover from using some of music freebies I mentioned in my earlier posts is hanging in. Namely, Native Instruments claim that Kontakt Player, “can be easily expanded with 3rd party KONTAKT PLAYER libraries and NI’s own growing range of innovative instruments “Powered by KONTAKT”. Yet numerous users, [...]
If you’re a guitarist, like me, then you’ve been there before: you’re in a music store, looking at dozens of various FX pedals, wondering about their actual sounds, especially in different combinations and setups. Potential, seems, endless, but there is never enough time to actually try them all. Well, now there is a little bit [...]
Freebies for computer-based music producers / songwriters / composers keep pouring in this holiday season, and I’m not complaining! This one could be one the most anticipated music production software freebie yet. Sounds Online, who established themselves with EastWest/Quantum Leap series of virtual instruments as de facto standard in Hollywood movie soundtrack have just sent [...]