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Alchemy Mobile v2 is the latest update to Camel Audio's
popular iOS sample manipulation synthesiser for your
iPhone/iPad. The 2.0.18 update provides support for the
general pasteboard so you can easily paste audio into
Garageband and other non-ACP apps. Also included are
a new manual to help you get the most from all its features
both old and new, as well as additional improvements:

- Copy/Paste to Garageband and other non-ACP apps
- New Manual makes learning easy - see Extra->Help
- New 'Himalaya: Vintage' Sound Library available
- authentic classic synths
- Improved handling of looped audio
- Improved background rendering
- Various other improvements and fixes

Mike Thornton is a sound designer, audio producer and a Pro Tools specialist who works in radio, TV sound & digital media. He is also Deputy Editor of Pro Tools Expert and a Sound on Sound columnist.
Chances are he's encountered a noisy situation like the one you’re facing, and he’s ready to show us how to fix the problem with RX 2.

- This series features real-world examples of audio rescue, including:
- Reducing hiss caused by a bad microphone cable
- Repairing clipping in a poorly recorded interview
- Reducing hum from a one-time-only recording
- Removing camera sounds from wedding vows
- Eliminating feedback from a bad PA system
- Tackling mobile phone interference and buzz
- Removing mobile phone text alert sounds
- Cleaning up recordings from a drama performance
- Reducing noise from a trade show floor
- Removing clicks and crackles from old recordings

Arturia’s Dr. Bob’s Collector Pack pricing promotion starts on May 23 and runs for one week only.

During this time, Moog fans, musicians, and producers worldwide wishing to pay tribute to the inventive individual responsible for singlehandedly revolutionising the sound of modern music production with his namesake 1965-patented Moog Ladder Filter design — which featured in the breakthrough voltage-controlled Moog modular synthesizer and its game-changing 1971-vintage compact MinimoogTM monosynth followup (for which Dr. Bob Moog was posthumously inducted into the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office National Inventors Hall of Fame) — can purchase Dr. Bob’s Collector Pack from the Arturia website at a reduced rate of €129.00 EUR/$129.00 USD (instead of €249.00 EUR/$299.00 USD). As always, a per ...

Future Garage has been produced with great attention to detail. The sound bank is 700 MB in size and offers heavy ultra deep sub-basslines, wobbling pads, widespread choruses and loose, broken drums.

Among the 139 loops, ranging from 8 to 16 bars length, you will find mix- and backing-parts, drum-mixes as well as loops of bass drum, snare/clap, hi-hat, percussions, bass, synths and FX. Additionally the 69 single sounds can easily be combined to new drum patterns.
Individual tracks are available for each of the four construction kits, allowing for complete re-arrangements and new constructions. To offer further flexibility, the kits are also divided into subfolders such as intro, a-part, b-part and outro.

Vintage Vibe is the latest Kontakt-powered virtual instrument from Big Fish Audio and offers a huge collection of multi-sampled instruments.

From rare, collectible and one-of-a-kind pieces to cheap knock-offs and banged up stuff found in junkyards - all the instruments have a unique character and vibe that is often absent from the 'meticulously recorded' and 'pristine' sampled instruments of today.

Featuring a huge choice of live and open drum sets with snares that crack and ring and toms that thunder, untamed by gates or compressors, Vintage Vibe also delivers keyboards that range from 'classic' to 'borderline psychotic', basses and guitars covering many musical genres and even a psychedelic staple of the late 1960's – the electric sitar.

In a new tutorial feature devoted to the creative use of Melodyne, Celemony is focussing on remixing. Melodyne is known as a great tool for the correction of intonation errors and the optimization of vocal tracks, but is capable of much more.

A series of video tutorials now shows how Melodyne helps to separate a vocal part from its accompaniment, how to produce crazy echoes and other effects with Melodyne's characteristic audio notes and how to use audio-to-MIDI to double or replace sounds. Fundamentals, such as how to adapt loops fast to new musical contexts and the more efficient use of Melodyne in a DAW, are also dealt with.