We would like to announce that In the Jungle will be taking a “holiday hiatus” over the festive season. We will quite literally be “wrapping it up” for Christmas and we will be back, bigger and brighter, in 2010. The wait will definitely be worth it however as we’re going to be changing the format of all our blogs in the new year.
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Audiotuts+ is our sister site, and part of Envato’s Tuts+ family designed to power up your skill set. It is a blog for musicians, producers and audio junkies.
The site is interesting and informative, and always worth a visit.
Want more? Join the Plus program where you can access source files and bonus tutorials.
Here is a roundup of this week’s tutorials and articles. (more…)
This week in our series of interviews of AudioJungle authors, we meet…
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living?
I’m from Portland, Oregon, and I make my living as a software engineer.
2. How long have you been composing music and what got you started producing?
I’ve been composing music for about 20 years on and off. I’ve been interested in recording for a while now but only recently ponied up the cash for a decent mic/preamp and DAW. (more…)
Recently I’ve been looking for new ways to use my Apple TV. A while ago I started downloading video podcasts, and there are some good ones out there.
More recently I have been surfing Youtube, and in particular looking for clips that inspire my musical creativity. Here are nine of my favorites. (more…)
Ardour is an excellent open-source digital audio workstation available for Linux and Mac OSX suitable for professional use. Although it can be obtained free of charge, it’s a great idea to support the author and ensure the ongoing development of software you depend on. (more…)
Audiotuts+ is our sister site, and part of Envato’s Tuts+ family designed to power up your skill set. It is a blog for musicians, producers and audio junkies.
The site is interesting and informative, and always worth a visit.
Want more? Join the Plus program where you can access source files and bonus tutorials.
Here is a roundup of this week’s tutorials and articles. (more…)
This week in our series of interviews of AudioJungle authors, we meet…
rtofvnt (or “rt of venture”, Maciej Legowicz, “Matt”)
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living?
My real name is Maciej Legowicz – a Polish name – but I’ve lived more than five years in the UK, and I am always being refer as Matthew by my British friends, as it is something they can pronounce.
My strange AudioJungle nickname has got some background. Do you guys remember the best home computer ever made – apart from the ZX Spectrum – called the Amiga? Ever heard of Amiga scene? A proper bunch of geeks. We had groups – ours was called Venture. We did some demos etc. and my nick name was just “rt”. So, thats how it happened – I’m rt of venture – in short: rtofvnt.
As was mentioned, I come from Poland – you’ve heard about this country … vodka, good looking girls etc. - but I moved with my wife and daughter to the United Kingdom around September 2004, where I live and work. My everyday job is web design and development. It can sometimes be boring, especially when your boss changes his mind every three days. I would really like to be a full time musician … give me some time please. (more…)
Music is a means of self-expression – like talking, miming and dancing. A home studio lets us keep a record of our expression – like writing, painting and video recording. And home studios go even further than that. They give us new ways of making and altering sounds, and present new options in the process of audio production.
I’m currently working on my third home studio. I put together my first home studio in the 80s, consisting of a four-track recorder, several synths and drum machines, and some rack-mounted effects modules. My second studio in the 90s was different – it was centered around a MIDI sequencer on my small laptop, which I connected to multi-timbral keyboards and sound modules. Not only was the gear different, but I had to learn a whole new way of thinking.
And now I’m doing it again. Everything has changed again in this last decade. Now in a very real way the computer is the studio, and everything else is a peripheral. Digital audio workstation software controls virtual instruments, and MIDI (important as it still is) has taken a back seat to audio. (more…)
