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…)
Audacity isn’t a digital audio workstation. It’s an audio editor that’s cross-platform (including Windows, Mac and Linux), open source, and free of charge.
The program is very popular, and incredibly versatile – like the swiss army knife of the audio world. This versatility leads some people to use it as a DAW replacement. Are you a fan of Audacity? How far have you been able to take it? (more…)
There’s nothing better than a big family and today the Envato family just got a whole lot bigger. We’re welcoming in two new marketplaces and a brand new Marketplace Manager to take over from Cyan! Read on to learn more!
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Catch22Music has been uploading a richly diverse portfolio of audio ever since joining AudioJungle earlier this year in March. Diversity is one of Catch22Music’s main strengths as demonstrated through all the many, many styles and genres of music Catch22Music has submitted audio to. We’ve seen a flurry of activity from Catch22 this month with an incredible amount of Christmas and Holiday submissions spread across several distinctive styles including jazz, traditional, rock and dance. Anyone looking for holiday music this festive season should take a look at what Catch22Music has to offer. Here’s just a sample of the outstanding pieces of stock music in Catch22Music’s AudioJungle portfolio, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
Here are some highlights from Catch22Music’s portfolio:
1950s Doo Wop Band:
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Summer Driving Rock:
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Hark The Herald Angels Sing Jazz:
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It’s hard to believe it’s almost a new decade, and with 2010 just around the corner it’s time to get celebrating the holiday season. There’s plenty happening around the Envato network of sites, read on to find out about it all!
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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.
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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?
Born in Los Angeles, I have been in Northern California since the age of 16, and have lived in Alameda (an island in San Francisco Bay) nearly half my life. I’ve worked as a sound designer for software game publishers and toy companies, and I’m now doing it as an independent contractor. I also play in a Beatles cover band called The Sun Kings. Together for nine years, it’s become much more of an occupation than the hobby it started out to be.
2. How long have you been composing music and what got you started producing?
I started composing songs at age 12 after receiving my first guitar. I wrote five songs in the first five days as fast as I could learn new chords. The output has varied since then. I first started producing music by recording my songs directly into a cassette recorder, listening back, and all too often saying ‘Hmmph, I can make it sound better’ instead of leaving it alone. Eventually I graduated to a reel to reel tape machine with sound-on-sound capability. Hello overdubbing! Since then, the gear and methods have improved considerably.
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Apple’s Garage Band is a great way to get into music, whether it’s learning a musical instrument or starting to produce your own music. It’s part of the iLife suite, which is inexpensive at $79, and also includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and iWeb. It includes music lessons and a reasonable DAW complete with plug-ins, loops and instruments.
I’ve just started teaching my 15-year-old daughter to play piano using the lessons in Garage Band, and so far I’m very impressed. The first lesson teaches a basic chord progression, and having to play the chords along with the computer teaches good timing. So far it’s a winner. (more…)
