Author Salute: ADG3Studios

Author Salute

This week’s salute goes to AudioJungle author ADG3Studios, who made 31 sales in June.

ADG3Studios is Adrien Gardiner, who is also our AudioJungle Community Manager. Besides being a composer, musician, and all-around nice guy, Adrien is a Flash developer who focuses on animated logos.

He has been an AudioJungle author since February 2007, which is ancient history on the AudioJungle timeline. Since then he has uploaded 393 items, made 2732 sales, and has achieved an average rating of Star_onStar_onStar_onStar_onStar_on. He has been very successful selling his tracks in packs of ten or fifteen.

Best Selling Track: Inspired for Life

His best selling track is Inspired for Life, which is part of the Joypack1 pack. It is a relaxed piece featuring acoustic and electric piano, and has even been used for figure skating.

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Featured Track: Digital Science

Adrien’s feature track is Digital Science, which is part of Electropack6. Adrian describes it as an “electronic hi tech sound, cool, cutting edge and contemporary, serious and sophisticated. A vocal, aggressive research and experimental development sound.”

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Other Tracks

Here are two more of Adrien’s most popular tracks that I enjoyed:

Aqua Vitae is an ambient track featuring synthesized piano with delay, an electronic voice pad, and surf.

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Safari Serengeti which features African rhythms, tuned percussion, voices singing, children cheering, and jungle sounds in the background.

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Congratulations, ADG3Studios. Thanks for your music, and the key role you play at AudioJungle.

Tuesday 7th July 2009 | 14 Comments

Adrian

low fidelity #4

Tuesday 7th July 2009 | 0 Comments

N.C. Winters

Your Favorite Collection: The Final Frontier

It was a nail biting finish with only 5 votes between the top two collections, but the winner of the Envato Marketplaces Collection Competition is:

Finalist 5: The Final Frontier

by circuitbomb

“Space. It is colorful. It is infinite. These are the voyages of the starship Envato. Its continuing mission…”

Congratulations Circuitbomb, you’ve won US$3,500 to spend on your ultimate creative set-up!

Each of the 10 finalists have won the contents of their collection. Thanks to everyone who entered, and watch out for the next big Envato competition!

Monday 6th July 2009 | 1 Comment

Cyan

Discover Pro Tools LE

Discover Pro Tools

We continue our series on Digital Audio Workstations, or DAWs, which allow musicians to record, edit and play back their music. This week we look at Digidesign’s Pro Tools.

If you’re thinking about getting into home recording, Pro Tools is worth considering as one of your alternatives. Besides having a long experience in audio software, and a large market share in the industry, Pro Tools is also available for both Windows and Mac OSX. It isn’t the cheapest option, costing from around $300USD (depending on which hardware options you choose), so if you’re on a tight budget, it may not be for you.

Pro Tools is actually a family of products ranging from software that suits the home hobbyist right up to full-scale commercial studios. Pro Tools LE is the product most suitable for home recording, and the one we will focus on in this article. Some of you may be using Pro Tools M-Powered, which is basically the same product adapted to M-Audio hardware. (more…)

Monday 6th July 2009 | 0 Comments

Adrian

Audiotuts+ Roundup

Last Week on Audiotuts+
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…)

Thursday 2nd July 2009 | 0 Comments

Adrian

Author Interview: Lyden

This week in our series of interviews of AudioJungle authors, we meet…

Lyden (Jonas Ranum Brandt)

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living?

I am from a little spot in Scandinavian called Denmark (the Little Mermaid and the Mohammed cartoons) living in the middle of Copenhagen … wasn’t very fond of school, or visa versa, quickly “left” and started looking for challenges in the “real” world.

LydenI have been working practically all my life, from cleaning assistant to JAA/FAA-approved Receiving Inspector at the airport, and now the last four years with my own company as a full time freelance graphic designer.

This is what I love and will be continuing with the rest of my life. I really don’t consider my “work” as work literally spoken. I have a strong passion for design and music and love what I do; I just see it as privilege to combine work with pleasure.

(more…)

Thursday 2nd July 2009 | 8 Comments

Adrian

Audio Gadgets: The ‘Void’ LP Player

Audio Gadgets: The 'Void' LP Player

Do you still listen to records? My second son does, and has recently gotten hold of a very old record player (in a large wooden cabinet) from his grandfather. He collects LPs and singles from op shops, and has quite a collection.

If you prefer the sound of vinyl, our gadget this week might interest you. It was found by our site manager Scott recently on the interesting and entertaining DVICE blog (“powered by SciFi” – I love that!). It’s called the ‘Void’ LP Player, and it looks a lot more modern than my son’s record player. It’s almost cool enough to get me buying records again!

Designed in Korea by Rhea Jeong, the thing that sets this player apart is the way that it spins the records in mid-air. I also love its modern, minimalistic look. At first glance I thought that it might be an air current keeping the record in the air (or maybe a small Star Trek tractor beam), but it all works by magnets. The red ball above the record contains both needle and speaker, so although it doesn’t have a retro look, it probably does have a 1920s sound.

Designbook, who have seen the designs for the player, describe it like this:

The record player uses a carrier and dock outfitted with a magnetic and auto-calibrating control system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. A self-running record player shaped in the form of a red sphere, contains a needle, amplifier and speaker, spins around the record, bringing the music to life.

The ‘Void’ LP Player has been reported widely on the blogs, and there is a lot of skepticism about the device in both articles and comments. Engadget conclude, “Designer Rhea Jeong’s Void LP player seems devoid of reality.”

Though the player is still just a concept, something this cool deserves to exist, and I wish Rhea lots of luck.

Wednesday 1st July 2009 | 1 Comment

Adrian