Beat Lab Reviews – Fresh Tracks of the Week August 24, 2018
Beat Lab Reviews – Fresh Tracks of the Week August 24, 2018 We’re back for our second installment of Fresh Tracks of the Week, this week we’ve some more of that new new – new to us, new to you – whether these tracks have been surfing the airwaves for awhile or not doesn’t make them any less Fresh. Listen below! Forin – Airlock Forin tries out a new name and new sound with a debut two track D’n’B EP – Gateway. The second track is full of dope blips and bloops but make sure you got the subwoofer plugged in for the deep down lows on this banger. Agmook – Redlines Agmook released his debut EP – Concentrated Wealth a few months ago, the name represents “the concept that wealth attracts wealth. Instead of spreading around, money concentrates into megalithic towers of bougie culture, supported by tactics of …
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We Make Dance Music – Project Templates and Community Marketplace
We Make Dance Music – Project Templates and Community Marketplace We Make Dance Music is a website dedicated to a community of artists making music for the site and artists utilizing music on the site. It is a community marketplace that offers all sorts of various music-related goodies, things like Project Templates, samples + loops, even royalty-free music can be purchased there. They reached out to us recently about trying some of the Project Templates they have to offer so we checked out a few and wanted to share with you our experience so you could join the fun! We’ll give a brief overview of the website and purchase process then break down some of the templates we tried out. su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#d2d2d2″ size=”1″ The Website As we mentioned above the website has a lot to offer in the realm of downloadable music content. They organize the website into four main sections – …
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DRUMS – Spitfire LABS is Back With a New Drum Library
DRUMS – Spitfire LABS is Back With a New Drum Library Spitfire Audio is back with their latest installment of their FREE to download professionally sampled audio library collection LABS (Let’s All Become Something). We covered their first two releases early last month for their Piano and Strings instruments. Both of those libraries proved to be quality options especially given the price tag of FREE. So, this time around we are provided their foray into drums – courtesy of drummer Oliver Waton and engineer Stanley Gabriel – and super happy for the option. If you are new to the Spitfire Audio LABS plugin then you may be relieved to find the user interface is minimalistic. There are only 3 controls – the 2 sliders and one large knob – Expression, Dynamics, and Reverb. Expression is described as an internal volume control in the tutorial below but they don’t expand upon the details …
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Beat Lab Reviews – Fresh Tracks of the Week August 17, 2018
Beat Lab Reviews – Fresh Tracks of the Week August 17, 2018 We have some exciting news about the Beat Lab blog, remember when we did that review on Submithub? Well, we reached out to them and are hoping to get set up with their service as reviewers, that’s right, sometime soon you may be able to submit your music through Submithub and get it featured on our website! Beat Lab Academy is a music school and we wanted to provide a platform for people like our students to share their music with like-minded individuals across the internet. We will be running a weekly article featuring a number of songs new to us or new to the world in an effort to promote music for those on the come up. For the first few weeks, we will be promoting music from our students and alumni until more submissions come in. …
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Captain Chords 2.0 – Composition Simplified
Captain Chords 2.0 – Composition Simplified Mixed In Key recently launched the most recent update to their Captain Chords plugin, Captain Chords 2.0. We’ve had our eyes on the whole Captain suite of plugins for a while now and with the update thought it’d be a perfect time to finally try it out and give it a proper review. Captain Chords 2.0 is just one of many in the Captain suite of plugins, so we’ll touch on the other plugins that come with the bundle later on in the review! su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#d2d2d2″ size=”1″ Captain Chords 2.0 has a clean interface that can be navigated easily and quickly, the very first screen you’ll see when opening the plugin is where you decide which key you’ll be composing your chords in (you have an option to not see this screen at the bottom). There are a number of different scales to …
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MS EQ COMP – FREE Midside Compressor
MS EQ COMP – FREE Midside Compressor Internet Co. recently released a FREE mid-side equalizer and compressor plugin called simply MS EQ COMP. The plugin is available both for Windows and Mac OS platforms. It is a straightforward plugin in design and function which we’re quite grateful for, it’s part of what makes this such a quality plugin. The effect features a 3-band equalizer specifically for adjusting the center or the sides. If you aren’t interested in getting that type of processing you can link the modules in order to work in stereo by pressing a clearly labeled and easy to see button at the bottom of the plugin’s GUI. A bonus feature is a preset manager where you can save and recall your favorite presets. Internet Co. features this description on their website – MS EQ COMP can encode standard STEREO (left/right) signal to MS (middle and side) and add EQ …
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