Candy Bar girl L'il Jo / DIVA Magazine Lesbian Lifestyle When I was fairly young I realised that I wanted to avoid a mid life crisis and so made the decision to have my wild and crazy years first, then go and be sensible when I'd had enough. I've certainly done the crazy bit - moving to California, living on desert islands, partying with rappers and models, DJ'ing for celebs and at fashion shows - but now I'd like a bit more stability in my life. One of the main problems that I face as a DJ is boredom during the day. All my friends work and unless I make solo trips to galleries and museums (which I do and now have a pretty good catalogue of potential date days stored up) my brain will rot. I've always loved kids, I get on well with them and relish the idea of having the opportunity to inspire and change lives. Time to take my two career choices into the ring and fight it out...
En images: le meilleur équipement salut-tech de 2009 Control surface of the year With the global economic downturn affecting pretty much every business on the planet, it’s probably safe to say that music technology developers and manufacturers have had a pretty tough year. God bless them, then, for still managing to give us such an impressive range of new products, the best of which we’re celebrating here. Our awards are based both on the reviews from our sister magazines - Computer Music and Future Music – and our own experiences. Kicking things off, 2009’s best control surface. It was a straight fight between the two first ‘official’ Ableton Live controllers here: Akai’s APC40 and Novation’s Launchpad. Jean-Edouard Miclot Empire Stadium MLS: WhiteCaps VS Sounders Working on sports projects often requires crowd audio that helps to convey a specific place and responds emotionally to the actions of a game. Very often, you don’t even think consciously about the crowd as your eyes are deeply focused on the action and your hands are firmly gripped to your chair. The reaction of the crowd though can physically make you feel the drama and transport you in a fraction of a second into the stadium with the tens of thousands of fans. Neumann RSM191 AS
Pluginboutique Revealed: The Lies Bedroom DJs Tell That Stop Them Succeeding Get out of your lazy bed and get yourself a gig – it’s the only way you’ll truly start to improve as a DJ. Pic: Plain Lazy We keep going on about how important it is to get gigs (or shows, or live DJ sets – whatever you want to call them) in order to improve as a DJ – and for good reason: More than half of our readers (according to our latest reader survey) are still only DJing in their bedrooms. Each day we receive scores of email, PMs, tweets and Facebook message from bedroom DJs who know they want to play “real” DJ sets in public, but are stuck doing it behind closed doors, all asking the same questions about how to break out of practising and start performing.
Orfeas Boteas Dehumaniser is a prototype application that transforms voice into monster sounds in real time. It has already been used from acknowledged sound professionals in feature films and video games. The new version is now ready! you can visit www.dehumaniser.com for more information. Dehumaniser short demonstration Download Sounds To Sample - Progressive House Melodics Progressive House Melodics Sounds To Sample 170+MB melodic grab-bag of progressive house loops, featuring 50 deep throbbing basslines, 50 soaring synth leads and 70 Midi files for custom lead and bassline creation. Created from scratch by Stedd - S2S's latest studio charge - the collection is bursting with mainroom-primed melodics that span the entire progressive spectrum, from the deep to the driving. Quatre Techniques de créativité pour l'utilisation de Traktor et Ableton Ensemble The combination of Traktor and Ableton in a DJ setup is a toolkit that (for now) is unparalleled for performers looking for versatile software solutions. We’ve read plenty of tutorials on how to sync Traktor and Ableton, but where most of them stop at a simple how to, today’s video focuses on why. Learn how to use four solid techniques that combine the best of both worlds in the video inside, and download a free template to try it out yourself! For simple reference, here are the four techniques we show off in today’s video:
Proximity Proximity is a collaborative effort by Tokyo Dawn Labs and Vladg Sound. The plug-in is an easy to use distance “pan-pot” based on several psycho-acoustic models. The idea is to give mixing engineer a reliable tool which allows him to manipulate the “depth” of several sound source in a straight forward and convincing manner. Several models can be combined: Distance signal delay by speed of soundDistance gain lossAbsorption of high-frequencies in airStereo width manipulationProximity effect of virtual microphoneDistance based early reflections All models can be turned on and off to taste.
How-To Guide Harmonic-Mixing.com The Basics Harmonic mixing consists of two elements: knowing the key of every song that you play and knowing which keys are compatible. To get started, find the keys of your songs. You can detect keys with a piano, a good ear, and a background in music theory. To save time, you can use professional DJ software such as Mixed In Key.
touchable contrôleur Ableton We're living in a world where anything over 99p is 'a lot' for an app, so anybody who's asking £8.99 for an iPad-only one that's totally dependent on another program to do its thing, better be pretty confident. touchAble isn't the first iPad app to work with Ableton Live - there's also TouchOSC with the Livecontrol template, and of course, Griid Pro, but touchAble promises much deeper control over Live than any of the competition. You need a Mac or PC, Live 8.1.5, the touchAble Server application, and of course touchAble itself on an iPad. Setup involves the usual iPad WiFi voodoo - the key is to launch everything in the right order. Leave the server running if you plan to use touchAble's keyboard or drum pads.