Monthly Archives: March 2022

Innovation in Audio Description Research PDF

By | March 23, 2022

Innovation in Audio Description Research PDF

Innovation in Audio Description Research PDF

This state-of-the-art volume covers recent developments in research on audio description, the professional practice dedicated to making audiovisual products, artistic artefacts and performances accessible to those with supplementary visual and cognitive needs. Harnessing the power of the spoken word, the projects covered in this book illustrate the value of audiovisual content descriptions not only in relation to the role of breaking down physical, cognitive and emotional barriers to entertainment, but also in informing broader media practices such as video archive retrieval, video gaming development and application software creation.

The first section maps out the field, discusses key concepts in relation to new developments and illustrates their application; the second part focuses on new audiences for AD, whilst the third part covers the impact of new technologies. Throughout this book contributors focus on methodological innovation, regarding audio description as an opportunity to engage in multi-dimensional linguistic and user-experience analysis, as it intersects with and contributes to a range of other research disciplines.

This book is key reading for researchers, advanced students and practitioners of audiovisual translation, media, film and performance studies, as well as those in related fields including cognition, narratology, computer vision and artificial intelligence.

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Some Case Studies on Signal, Audio & Image Processing Using Matlab

By | March 23, 2022

Some Case Studies on Signal, Audio & Image Processing Using Matlab

Some Case Studies on Signal, Audio & Image Processing Using Matlab

This project shows some selected signal techniques, including image and audio processing, using the Matlab digital signal processing and image processing toolboxes. The project is divided to 3 parts.

Part I includes design and implementation of different types of filters for filtering signal that has different sinusoidal frequency components or noise. The comparison was made between FIR low pass flter, butterworth filter, Chebycheve Type I low pass filter and Chebycheve Type II low pass filter. Then different types of IIR Butterworth filters were designed and implemented to filter a signal that has many harmonics components, including low pass filter, high pass filter, stop band filter and band pass filter.

Part II examined audio filtering in the sense of specific frequency suppression and extraction. There are many different types of filters available for the construction of filters. We will specifically use the Butterworth filter. An audio signal was read and different types of filters, including low pass filter, high pass filter, stop band filter and band pass filter, were designed and implemented in order to filter the audio signal from some frequency bands. Then the discrete cosine transform compression examined on the audio signal at different compression rates: 50%, 75% , 87.5%

Part III deals with image processing; the project shows examples in smoothing, sharpening, and edge detection. Other useful operations on the image were tested, including image cropping, image resizing, image, histogram equalization and altering image brightness

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Electronic Musician May 2022

By | March 23, 2022

Electronic Musician - May 2022

Electronic Musician – May 2022

The new ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN is a “must have” resource for anyone who makes music, plays music, and shares music.

Every issue includes “gig tested” product reviews on music gear, tons of how-to’s, and interviews with today’s stars revealing the secrets of their songwriting approaches and audio-production concepts.

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Minimal Audio EMERGE – Mutated Organic SFX WAV

By | March 22, 2022

Minimal Audio EMERGE - Mutated Organic SFX WAV

Minimal Audio EMERGE – Mutated Organic SFX WAV

Immerse yourself in a world that blurs real and imaginary, where space is torn by mind-bending sounds with earth-shattering weight. EMERGE fuses organic material with futuristic sound design to give you a massive variety of hyper-textural audio.

EMERGE offers 750+ meticulously designed impacts, one-shots, atmospheres, textures, and synthetics crafted for forward-thinking sound designers & musicians.

Sonic Discoveries

As the result of a six-month exploration of sound, EMERGE is the distillation of extensive recording sessions and processing techniques. We collected material from junkyards, modular synths, foley sessions, and much more. The audio was carefully processed, layered, and polished into a powerful collision of organic and synthetic sounds.

Included Content

  • 240 Warped One-Shots
  • 94 Impacts
  • 176 Textural Mutations
  • 92 Atmospheres
  • 183 Future Synthetics

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Aequor Sound Top 50 Kicks WAV

By | March 22, 2022

Aequor Sound Top 50 Kicks WAV

Aequor Sound Top 50 Kicks WAV

Aequor Sound is proud to present their new “Top 50 Kicks” Pack. This pack includes 50 kicks that will help artists realize their creative undertaking with Techno, Progressive or Deep House. Our package is the best choice for you. Deep or punchy and hard kicks are inside Top 50 Kicks Pack! IMPORTANT: This pack contains ONLY kicks (loops, one-shots) 100% Royalty-Free. After purchasing this product, you can freely use all sounds from this pack in your commercial works and projects.

Product Details:

  • 31 Mb of Content
  • 100 x Files in total
  • 50 x Kick Loops
  • 50 x Kick One Shots
  • 24 Bit 44.1kHz WAV
  • 100% Royalty-Free

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The Firebeatz Producer Pack V.1 MULTIFORMAT

By | March 22, 2022

The Firebeatz Producer Pack V.1 MULTIFORMAT

The Firebeatz Producer Pack V.1 MULTIFORMAT

With 3 Gold Records under their belt, a string of official remixes for pop stars including Rihanna, Pitbull, Flo Rida, Justin Timberlake, P!nk, Snoop Dogg, James Blunt, and Sean Paul, plus collaborations with Calvin Harris, Tiësto, and Martin Garrix, Firebeatz have truly earned their spot as one of the most talented duos in the music industry.

The crew met with Firebeatz at one of their studios in the beautiful countryside of The Netherlands, and the guys unsurprisingly created a producer pack of outstanding quality.

The goal? To create a unique music making experience that empowers you to make vocal-house instrumentals for the era of streaming, using an elite collection of Firebeatz sounds.

With their recent single ‘On Top Of Mine’ crushing Spotify and Apple Music, this exclusive pack is poised to inspire all types of house music producers worldwide.

Samples

Dance radio, deep house, bass house, big room, and everything in between.

Setting trends, filling arenas, and always staying ahead of the curve when it comes to sound design, Firebeatz samples sit comfortably in gold records. This is the essential collection of Firebeatz sounds, directly from tracks like ‘Lift Me Up’ with Oliver Heldends, ‘Rage’ with Sander van Doorn, ‘Helicopter’ with Martin Garrix, ‘Arsonist,’ their widely played ‘Calabria’ remix, and more.

“A lot of very well known and tested Firebeatz sounds”

This pristine sample library spans each era of their evolved career to include rolling bass loops and juicy shots, textural vox, exquisite FX, beautiful pianos, synths, and instruments, and the holy grail of house drums. The impressive drumwork at the heart of Firebeatz’ production identity is delivered in a heavy spread of kicks for both big room and dance radio house, top loops, fills, one shots, and many more renowned percussion loops and one shots.

Unlock this sample pack to find some hidden Firebeatz MIDI files snuck in there too!

Presets

Do you feel like you’re missing the secret sauce when you start a new project? We got you covered.

13 x Serum: A collection of powerful presets for leads, bass, chords, and pads.

11 x Sylenth: Leads from Helicopter, Arsonist, and more.

3 x Logic Drum Machine Designer: Kicks, hats, cymbals, shakers, claps, snares, percussion.

5 x Valhalla Vintage Verb: Reverb presets specifically engineered for vocal, snare, piano, an “endless reverb” preset and a “basic reverb” preset.

1 x Waves MetaFilter: Modulation preset used on Firebeatz piano’s.

1 x Logic Alchemy: Bonus vinyl crackle sound.

Project File

Daw: Logic Pro X

Get the Logic project file for the track you’re hearing in the trailer which was build before your eyes in the tutorial using sounds from this producer pack.

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Aequor Sound Melodic Techno Storm 2 WAV MIDI Pigments

By | March 22, 2022

Aequor Sound Melodic Techno Storm 2 WAV MIDI Pigments

Aequor Sound Melodic Techno Storm 2 WAV MIDI Pigments

Introducing our second modern techno construction kit. It consists of five perfectly produced tracks and contains all the necessary midi files and synth presets, as well as processed and dry sounds.

Sample pack details:

  • 5 x Tracks (construction kits)
  • 75 x Wav Loops
  • 23 x Midi Files
  • 10 x VST Synth Patches (Arturia Pigments 3)
  • 1,3 Gb of Content
  • 99 x Files in Total
  • 24 Bit 44.1kHz WAV
  • 100% Royalty-Free

Style: Melodic Techno / Modern Techno

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Aequor Sound Melodic Techno Storm 1 WAV MIDI Pigments

By | March 22, 2022

Aequor Sound Melodic Techno Storm 1 WAV MIDI Pigments

Aequor Sound Melodic Techno Storm 1 WAV MIDI Pigments

Introducing our new modern techno construction kit.
It consists of three perfectly produced tracks and contains all the necessary midi files and synth presets, as well as processed and dry sounds.

CONTENT:

  • 3 x Tracks (construction kits)
  • 1 x 20 VST Synth Patches (Arturia Pigments 3)
  • 44 x Wav Loops
  • 17 x Midi Files
  • 878 Mb of Content
  • 62 x Files in Total
  • 24 Bit 44.1kHz WAV
  • 100% Royalty-Free

Style:

  • Melodic Techno / Modern Techno

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Aequor Sound Eridan Dark Deep WAV

By | March 22, 2022

Aequor Sound Eridan Dark Deep WAV

Aequor Sound Eridan Dark Deep WAV

Aequor Sound presents ‘Eridan: Dark Deep’. This pack will help artists realize their creative undertaking in Deep, Dub Progressive and Tech sounds. 100% Royalty-Free. After purchasing this product, you can freely use all sounds from this pack in your commercial works and projects.

Product Details:

  • 247 Mb of Content
  • 41 x Files in Total
  • 4 x Kick Loop
  • 5 x Bass Loop
  • 20 x Synth Loop
  • 8 x Percussion Loop
  • 4 x Fx
  • 100% Royalty-Free

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Aequor Sound Deep Modern Techno WAV MIDI SPF

By | March 22, 2022

Aequor Sound Deep Modern Techno WAV MIDI SPF

Aequor Sound Deep Modern Techno WAV MIDI SPF

We are happy to present you our new Deep Modern Techno Pack. We tried to combine the flow of melodic deep techno and dark textures created with field recordings. This pack contains five construction kits, which we supplemented with bonus loops and one shots and a small set of Spire synth presets.

CONTENT:

  • 5 x Tracks (construction kits)
  • 68 x Stems
  • 14 x Midi
  • 22 x Spire Presets
  • 15 x Drum Loops (bonus)
  • 40 x One Shot (bonus)
  • 10 x Textures (bonus)
  • 979 Mb of Content
  • 169 x Files in Total
  • 24 Bit 44.1kHz WAV
  • 100% Royalty-Free

Pack style:

  • Modern Techno / Melodic Techno / Deep Techno / Techno

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PUNKADEMIC Orchestration Masterclass Part 2 Brass Voice & Guitar TUTORIAL

By | March 22, 2022

PUNKADEMIC Orchestration Masterclass Part 2 Brass Voice & Guitar TUTORIAL

PUNKADEMIC Orchestration Masterclass Part 2 Brass Voice & Guitar TUTORIAL

Every aspect of composing for the orchestra whether you are working with real players or sampled orchestra libraries

What you’ll learn:

  • Compose music for the voice, guitar, brass, and percussion instruments
  • The unique properties of every instrument in the orchestra
  • How writing for the orchestra works, including scores, parts, shared parts, and more.
  • Making your synthesized orchestrations sounds great!
  • How to write music for brass.
  • How to write music for voice and choir
  • How to write music for guitar
  • How to write music for harp

Requirements
Understanding how to read music, or the basic principals of notated music will be helpful but is not required.
Orchestration Masterclass, Part 1: The Strings and The Winds is very helpful to have completed prior to this course, but is not required.

Description
100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor.

Are you a music maker, performer, composer, or aspiring songwriter looking to up your game? This is the place to start.

It’s time to learn orchestration to give your music the power, the passion, and the prodigiousness that it deserves.

Orchestration is the study of each instrument in the orchestra, how they work, how to write for them, and how each instrument collides with the others to make new sounds. Think of it like painting: The orchestra is your palette of colors. But you don’t want to just mix them all together. You need to understand some principles of mixing those colors together before you put your brush on canvas.

In this series of classes we are going to work on three things:

  • Instrumentation: Knowing how all of the instruments in the orchestra work, and how to write for them in an idiomatic way
  • Composition: Using the orchestra to write powerful music. Learning how to blend the different sounds of the orchestra to make a new, unique, sound
  • Synthestration: Using common production software (Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, etc.) to create a realistic orchestra sound using sample libraries

In this class, “Part 2: Brass, Voice, and Guitar” we are going to focus entirely on instrumentation – learning how to write for the brass (trumpet, trombone, french horns, and tuba) the voice (soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, counter-tenor, tenor, baritone, bass), percussion, guitar and other fretted instruments, piano, accordion, and more.

If you don’t know me, I’ve published a lot of classes here. Those classes have been really successful (top sellers, in fact!), and this has been one of the most requested class that my students (over 1,000,000 of them) have asked for. I’m really excited to finally be able to bring this to you.

Here is a list of some of the topics we will cover:

  • How Brass instruments make sound
  • Dynamics in Brass
  • Breathing
  • Brass articulations
  • Types of trumpets
  • Types of trombones
  • Types of tubas
  • Types of horns (or French Horns)
  • Brass mutes
  • Brass forces in an orchestra
  • The pitched and unpitched percussion
  • Rolls and strokes
  • Bowed percussion
  • Percussion notation issues
  • Drum Kit
  • Tessitura and Range of the Voice
  • The soprano range and color
  • The alto range and color
  • The mezzo-soprano range and color
  • The counter-tenor range and color
  • The tenor range color
  • The baritone range and color
  • The bass voice range and color
  • Writing for the piano
  • Writing for the harpsichord, toy piano, and other keyboard instruments
  • Writing for the harp
  • Writing for the organ
  • Writing for the guitar
  • Writing for other fretted instruments
  • Dynamic issues with the guitar
  • Guitar and tablature
  • Writing for accordian
  • And Much, Much, More!

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Sonic Academy How To Use Cubase 12 Full Overview TUTORIAL

By | March 22, 2022

Sonic Academy How To Use Cubase 12 Full Overview TUTORIAL

Sonic Academy How To Use Cubase 12 Full Overview TUTORIAL

Following on from his ‘First Look’ video when Cubase 12 launched, Protoculture is back as promised to take a closer look at some of the new features available.

There’s a host of new and updated elements in Cubase 12 that’ll speed up workflow, integrate your DAW with any hardware that you own, help you edit audio in new ways, and above all else, get more creative!

Over these ten videos, Nate goes through some of his favourite new features showing you how to use and get the most out of this impressive DAW.

Check it out!

Tutorials Details

  • Tutorial 01 – Introduction
  • Tutorial 02 – MIDI Remote API
  • Tutorial 03 – Timestretching and Warping
  • Tutorial 04 – Variaudio and Chord Assistant
  • Tutorial 05 – ARA2 Track Extensions
  • Tutorial 06 – Fade Tools
  • Tutorial 07 – FX Modulator
  • Tutorial 08 – Mastering in Cubase
  • Tutorial 09 – Logical Editors
  • Tutorial 10 – Importing, Exporting and Rendering Tracks

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PUNKADEMIC Orchestration Masterclass Part 1 The Strings & The Winds TUTORIAL

By | March 22, 2022

PUNKADEMIC Orchestration Masterclass Part 1 The Strings & The Winds TUTORIAL

PUNKADEMIC Orchestration Masterclass Part 1 The Strings & The Winds TUTORIAL

Every aspect of composing for the orchestra whether you are working with real players or sampled orchestra libraries

What you’ll learn:

  • Compose music for the strings and for the winds
  • The unique properties of every instrument in the orchestra
  • How writing for the orchestra works, including scores, parts, shared parts, and more.
  • Making your synthesized orchestrations sounds great!

Requirements
Understanding how to read music, or the basic principals of notated music will be helpful but is not required.

Description
100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor.

Are you a music maker, performer, composer, or aspiring songwriter looking to up your game? This is the place to start.

It’s time to learn orchestration to give your music the power, the passion, and the prodigiousness that it deserves.

Orchestration is the study of each instrument in the orchestra, how they work, how to write for them, and how each instrument collides with the others to make new sounds. Think of it like painting: The orchestra is your palette of colors. But you don’t want to just mix them all together. You need to understand some principles of mixing those colors together before you put your brush on canvas.

In this series of classes we are going to work on three things:

Instrumentation: Knowing how all of the instruments in the orchestra work, and how to write for them in an idiomatic way.

Composition: Using the orchestra to write powerful music. Learning how to blend the different sounds of the orchestra to make a new, unique, sound.

Synthestration: Using common production software (Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Cubase, etc.) to create a realistic orchestra sound using sample libraries.

In this first class, “Part 1: The Strings and The Winds” we are going to focus entirely on instrumentation – learning how to write for the strings (violin, viola, cello, bass/contrabass) and the winds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone).

If you don’t know me, I’ve published a lot of classes here. Those classes have been really successful (top sellers, in fact!), and this has been one of the most requested class that my students (over 1,000,000 of them) have asked for. I’m really excited to finally be able to bring this to you.

Here is a list of some of the topics we will cover:

  • Transposition
  • Score Order
  • Tips for Reading Scores
  • Preparing Parts for Players
  • Page Turns and Cues
  • Bowing
  • Pizzicato
  • Double Stops
  • The Violin
  • The Viola
  • The Cello
  • The Bass
  • String Effects
  • Harmonics
  • Col Legno
  • Ponticello
  • Glissando
  • Vibrato
  • Scordatura
  • The Winds
  • Sustained Tones and Breathing
  • Tonguing and Rhythm
  • Types of Flutes
  • Types of Oboes
  • Types of Clarinets
  • The Break in the Clarinet
  • Types of Bassoons
  • Types of Saxophones
  • Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bari Saxophone, and Soprano Saxophone
  • Woodwind Effects
  • Multiphonics
  • And Much, Much, More!

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THICK Sounds Roads Of Halfstep WAV

By | March 22, 2022

THICK Sounds Roads Of Halfstep WAV

THICK Sounds Roads Of Halfstep WAV

THICK Sounds provides a new pack exclusively dedicated to Halfstep and open up a path to a whole world of combinations between uptempo and downtempo. Inspired by sounds of Blu Mar Ten, Dub Phizix, Spectrasoul, Technimatic, Synkro to name a few, ‘Roads of Halfstep’ is designed for producers who are looking for syncopated chiseled drums, moving basslines and wide organic synths

With releases on RAM Records, Technique, ProgRam and more worldwide-known labels, Salaryman already showed his abilities to craft such music and presents here a pack that shouldn’t be missed!

Featuring samples from 170 to 175 BPM, ‘Roads of Halfstep’ is suitable for Halftime music but also Drum & Bass, Jungle, Future Bass, Dubstep, Drumstep and beyond.

Just check the demo track and loops and get ready to add a highly useful tool to your Halftime collection!

  • 24Bit 44.1KHz
  • 32 Synth Loops
  • 32 Drum Loops
  • 23 Bass Loops
  • 32 Top Loops
  • 11 Percussion Loops
  • 6 Atmo Loops
  • 27 Synth Hits
  • 17 Bass Hits
  • 56 Drum Hits
  • 10 FXs
  • 5 Bass Multis
  • 5 Synth Multis
  • 3 Construction Kits including separated layers: Drum, Sub Bass, Reece Bass, Leads, Pads, Stabs, Instruments and Full Mix previews

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PUNKADEMIC Music Theory Comprehensive Complete Parts 19, 20 & 21 TUTORIAL

By | March 22, 2022

PUNKADEMIC Music Theory Comprehensive Complete Parts 19, 20 & 21 TUTORIAL

PUNKADEMIC Music Theory Comprehensive Complete Parts 19, 20 & 21 TUTORIAL

Learn music theory through this music theory course app, music theory exercises, and music theory tutorials

What you’ll learn:

  • Master college-level Music Theory Class
  • Compose music in the style of the great composers
  • Create more emotional music using suspensions, resolutions, and non-chord tones effectively
  • Pitches and Pitch Classes
  • 20th Century Music Theory
  • Set Theory
  • Serialism
  • Integer Notation

Requirements
Students should be enthusiastic about music, but do not need to be producers or musicians. No prior experience is needed in music – All are welcome!
Students who have taken Music Theory Comprehensive Part 1 through 18 will benefit from some concepts, but it is not required.
This courses assumes students know the basics of how to read music. (Those who can not identify notes in treble clef should start with Music Theory Comprehensive Part 1)

Description
Welcome to the COMPLETE Music Theory Guide!

This course is “5-Star Certified” by the International Association of Online Music Educators and Institutions (IAOMEI). This course has been independently reviewed by a panel of experts and has received a stellar 5-star rating.

This is a class designed for the average person who is ready to take their music career (or music interest) and level up. Whether you are an active musician, an aspiring musician, or an aspiring music manager or agent – this class is perfect for you.

For years I’ve been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. These classes I’m making for Udemy use the same syllabus I’ve used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost. I believe anyone can learn Music Theory – and cost shouldn’t be a barrier.

My approach to music theory is to minimize memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own. If you’ve tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out – this series of courses is the perfect fit.

Dr. Allen is a professional musician, top-rated Udemy instructor, and university professor. In 2017 the Star Tribune featured him as a “Mover and a Shaker,” and he is recognized by the Grammy Foundation for his music education classes.

Throughout this class, If you get stuck, you can review the videos or post a question, and I’ll back to it as fast as possible.

This class is a combined class and includes all parts 19, 20, and 21. This is the end of the sequence! It concludes what would be the fourth semester of college-level music theory.

100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor.

In this class, we will cover:

  • Set Theory
  • Pitch Class Set
  • Prime Form
  • Normal Order
  • Interval Vectors
  • Z-Related Sets
  • Composing with Pitch Class Sets
  • My Listening List
  • Ordered Pitch Sets
  • Inversion
  • Retrograde
  • Retrograde Inversion
  • Twelve-Tine Rows
  • The Matrix
  • Serialism
  • Total Serialism
  • Constructing a Row
  • Serialism in Popular Music
  • Notation post-1945
  • Reactionary Movements
  • Minimalism
  • Third Stream
  • Chance Music
  • Postmodernism
  • …and much, much more!

You will not have another opportunity to learn Music Theory in a more comprehensive way than this.

All the tools you need to successfully learn Music Theory is included in this course and the entire course is based on real-life experiences – not just academic theory.

Please click the “Take This Course” button so you can launch your music career today.

Test Prep:

This course is perfect for prep for the Praxis II Test (ETS Praxis Music), The ABRSM Music Theory Exam (up to Grade 8), AP Music Theory Exam, College Placement Exams (Music Theory), and other common secondary and post-secondary placement exams.

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