Sunday, November 27, 2011

SOME OF THE BEST FREEWARE VST'S OUT THERE...



#FreeAmp2 – Virtual Guitar Amp – huge number of amp, cab, speaker, eq and stomp combinations
PolyIblit – Subtractive Synth – fat, alias free oscillators! also check out Lazy Snake Electric piano
Crystal – Semimodular synth – very powerful
Asynth – Subtractive – gorgeous filter
UGO Synths – A whole buch of great free synths
Oatmeal – Subtractive Synth – flexible, skinnable, lots of presets on kvr
Synth 1 – Subtractive synth – classic, easy to learn, super low CPU use
Triangle - Subtractive Synth – great useful monophonic synth
Purple – FM Synth – also check out Unkown, and some of his other synths
NUBI3 - Organ and Rotary speaker

SFZ
– soundfont player, also a brilliant sampler if u want to learn to use the xml based sampling format (very simple)
GVST effects – Quick, Straightforward collection of effects. Including an Autotuner. Please dont use it to make Cher vocals
dblue Glitch – Awesomely powerful beat mangler a la Aphex Twin. Seriously, its great.
DtBlkFx – Sound mangling FFT
Smartelectronix – A group of VST developers, all with different plugins, many of them free and good. Bram, Antti, DestroyFX, magnus(makes a great reverb), mda and mdsp all make nice stuff
Classic – kjaerhus audio’s free plugins – really nice

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

ST HOLDINGS REMOVES ALL CONTENT FROM SPOTIFY....

Removal of content from Spotify, Simfy, Rdio & Napster.
STHoldings can confirm that we have taken the decision to remove all STHoldings distributed content from the following music services, Spotify, Simfy, Rdio & Napster.

Despite these services offering promotion to many millions of music listeners we have concerns that these services cannibalise the revenues of more traditional digital services. These concerns are confirmed in our own accounts and a recent study by NPD Group and NARM

As a distributor we have to do what is best for our labels. The majority of which do not want their music on such services because of the poor revenues and the detrimental affect on sales. Add to that, the feeling that their music looses it’s specialness by it’s exploitation as a low value/free commodity. Quoting one of our labels “Let’s keep the music special, fuck Spotify”

All the labels we represent have been given the choice to have their music to Spotify, Simfy, Rdio & Napster. As of today (16.11.11) from the 238 labels we distribute, 4 have expressed that they would like to be on these services.

Monday, November 7, 2011

CRISP MASTERING CONTEST: WIN FREE AUDIO MASTERING!!!



Crisp Mastering is calling all Hip-Hop & Electronic Music Artists & Producers to show off their skills. It’s time to win FREE Audio Mastering!

Step 1. Create an account in the “My Account” section or use our integrated Facebook connect for a single click account set up.

Step 2: Like us on our Facebook page and post a direct link or a SoundCloud embedded track along with the user name you signed up with.

Make your track as creative as possible. We’re not necessarily looking for this most seasoned pro sounding track. We’re looking for cool creative ideas as well. All genres of digitally produced music are welcome.

Contest ends January 17th 2012. 4 Winners will be chosen on January 31st 2012 and awarded free Audio Mastering services from Crisp Mastering!


Best of luck,

Crisp Mastering Engineers