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Win Music Editing Software

Rockschool contest offers a chance to win a copy of Notion 4.0


Rockschool has teamed up with Notion Music to give away 3 copies of their newest music editing software,Notion 4.0. Here's what they have to say...

Notion 4.0

Notion 4 is the latest in music editing, creation and playback software and offers teachers and students an unrivalled level of production features to help your playing ability and notation.

Compose, review, and edit music with a quality and ease of use that must be experienced. No endless menus to find what you need. Notion is the most efficient notation product, making it simple to write and edit your ideas quickly.

Notion gives you the best playback of any notation product. The orchestral samples are recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios; the guitar samples by Neil Zaza; the bass samples by Victor Wooten and the drum samples by Roy "Futureman" Wooten.

No other product allows you to create a score on your desktop and transfer it to your iPad, where you can continue to edit and review your music. If you have Notion and the Notion iPad app, you can send and open scores from each device and continue to work on your score, anywhere, anytime.


About Rockschool
Rockschool is the leading accredited provider of rock and pop exams worldwide and offers Graded Music Exams, Diplomas and Vocational Qualifications that are practical, flexible and fun. Founded in 1991, they run qualifications for thousands of musicians in the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Rockschool has been independently and fully accredited by the UK government through Ofqual, DCELLS and CCEA since 2002. Their graded qualifications are also accredited by SQA Accreditation in Scotland. In 2010, all its qualifications were successfully re-accredited on the QCF. Further information about Rockschool's independent public accreditation is available here. In the UK Rockschool has over 500 exam centres and more than 4500 instrumental teachers registered.

Pricing and Availability:
The competition will end on the 14th January.

More information:
rockschool.co.uk

Waves Synth Details

Waves gives us the official story and a video


We brought you breaking news of the Waves Element synthesiser last week but here's the official press release just in from Waves:

Waves Audio, introduces Element, its first-ever synthesizer. Powered by Virtual Voltage™ technology, Element is an analog-style polyphonic instrument engineered to deliver the fat, gritty sound of the classics, with all the precision, flexibility and control of contemporary digital synths. Element includes a vast array of convenient features and functions, including integrated effects, a 16-step arpeggiator/sequencer, MIDI Learn for all controls and a massive preset library, with total tweakability. Plus, all parameters are laid out right in front of the user, so when inspiration strikes, there's no need to scroll through page after page to customize sounds. Searing leads, booming basses, ethereal pads, electro-percussion, sequential motions, mind-blowing FX and lots more: Element does it all.

London-based Yoad Nevo, who has enjoyed a successful career as a producer/engineer for such artists as Air, Goldfrapp and Pet Shop Boys, in addition to being a longtime Waves developer, was instrumental in the development of Element. Here's what he has to say...

"In my work, I use synthesizers quite a bit. Even though I have a large collection of analog synths, I'm always on the lookout for cool new virtual instruments. So when Waves decided to build a synth from the ground up, there were certain things I made sure it had. We knew we wanted to create a synth that would be straightforward and easy to use, so we started with a basic subtractive synthesis engine. We then developed the engine further, adding features and functions along the way, until it grew into a mature synth. Element provides fat sound right off the bat, but also has very comprehensive editing capabilities, which I used to create most of its presets. We made sure to include all its features on a single page: the step sequencer, modulation matrix and effects section, everything. Whether scrolling through presets of creating completely new sounds from scratch, we saw to it that Element would provide users with instant sonic gratification."

Pricing and Availability:
Waves Element is now available at a U.S. MSRP of $200, with a special introductory price of $99.

More information:
Waves Element

Make Your Own Prog Rock

Ueberschall releases construction kit library based on 70s and 80s prog rock bands


Ueberschall has released Prog Rock, the latest release from their Vodovoz series. They tell us that this construction kit library is inspired by the great progressive rock bands of the 70s and 80s. Here's the details in Ueberschall's own words:

Prog rock influenced many contemporary music styles, such as dubstep, electro house and metal. The main characteristics of prog rock are the extended use of synthesizers, organs, and sound-effects as well as complex rhythmic structures and instrumentation. Influenced by a wide range of genres, ranging from classical music to jazz and science fiction soundtracks, the epic arrangements are often breaking the boundaries of traditional rock music.

Content
Prog Rock consists of ten pre-produced construction kits with a total of 1200 loops. Each kit offers a complete mix for demonstrative purposes. In addition, we provide mixes of the complete backings and the drum sets, which are particularly useful for song-sketches, digital DJ-sets and productions under time pressure.
Each construction kit also contains loops of all single instruments (basses, guitars, synths, pianos, organs, effects, drums and percussion. These loops have been recorded and prepared using professional equipment and offer total freedom while arranging and mixing. The options are widespread, ranging from adding single loops to an existing track up to the construction of complete new tracks using one or several construction kits.
The construction kits are recorded in 128, 130 and 140 bpm.
Each construction kit contains five to eight subfolders including intro, outro, verse, refrain, breaks and variations. This makes the creation of a conclusive track easy.
This library is essential for every modern producer, songwriter and sound-designer. Prog Rock is perfectly suited for music production, songwriting, movie soundtracks, games, advertisement-jingles, dubbing and web applications.

Elastik-Features
The Prog Rock library hugely benefits from Ueberschall's versatile and flexible Elastik-Player, available as a free download from ueberschall.com. This plug-in allows easy and fast creation of additional patterns, filtering and unique effects by sequencing sound parameters and using the Loopeye. Its ultrafast time-stretching with a range between 30 and 300 BPM allows matching of all loops to your DAW-tempo and also to create half- and double time versions.
A clear folder structure combined with meaningful titles like "Keynote" and „Speed" makes navigation and loop combination within Prog Rock and all other installed libraries a breeze.
The central Loopeye view lets you focus on the loop. Edit samples in an Innovative and intuitive way by using functions such as resampling, formant, reverse and the powerful multimode-filter. Elastik allows host-automated modulation of start- and endpoints in a loop, resulting in creative manipulations while playing. At the same time, zplane.development's élastique-pro-algorithm performs easy tempo matching with highest quality and lowest CPU load.

Credits
Danya Vodovoz: Ideas, production and sound-design
Danya has released his music on labels like Ministry of Sound, Traum, Naïve, Raw Canvas and Night Drive Music. Among other styles, he has produced Dubstep Skillz, Electro House Inferno, Retro Soul, Chillers Joint, Electro Pop, Pop Charts, 80s Smash Hits and Caribbean Flavors for Ueberschall.
Guitars & Bass: Kai Reuter, Drums: Michael Fromm, Pianos, Synthesizers and Percussion: Danya Vodovoz

  • 1.6 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 1200 Loops
  • Genre: Progressive Rock
  • Elastik Soundbank for Mac/PC/AU/VST/RTAS/Stand-Alone
  • Elastik Player included - no sampler required

Pricing and Availability:
99.00 €

More information:
Prog Rock