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The final EM podcast of NAMM 2007 starts with a preview of Thor, a new synth that will be part of an upcoming release of Propellerhead Reason. Hear about its features and listen to a number of sound samples from the new instrument.
Next up is an interview with L.A. session veteran Lee Sklar, who has been one of the busiest bassists on the recording and touring scene for many years. Sklar talks about his recording rig and some of his recent session work.
The final segment features an interview with Bruce Botnick, a producer/engineer who started his career back in 1963, and who has worked with such mega acts as the Doors, the Beach Boys, and many more. Now an enthusiastic user of Digidesign‘s Pro Tools and its Icon console, Botnick has moved heavily into film music production, and has worked with Jerry Goldsmith, among other composers. In this interview, Botnick talks about the differences between his analog and digital recording experiences, what it was like to work with Jim Morrison in the studio, and more.
On today‘s podcast, we start with an look at a brand new soft synth, the Keytosound Nexsyn. Available in all plug-in formats, and for both Mac and PC, the Nexsyn features a mixture of synthesis and sample playback, comes with sounds from Big Fish Audio, and introduces a new concept for patch sharing called Netnotes.
Next is an interview with Nathaniel Kunkel, a very busy and successful producer/engineer, who talks about what he‘s seen at NAMM, how to avoid the pitfalls of recording on a digital audio sequencer, and his current project recording the new Lyle Lovett CD.
You‘ll also hear about the new Master Control from Alesis, which is a hybrid of a digital mixer, a control surface, a speaker switcher, and more. Finally, there‘s an interview with keyboard whiz and Dream Theater member Jordan Rudess, who‘s been performing at the Roland booth with drum virtuoso Rod Morgenstein. Rudess discusses his current projects, the limitations of MIDI, and much more.
Synths out the ying yang. That’s what today’s podcast–Remix’s final podcast for Winter NAMM 2007–is all about. First up is a demo of Korg’s new R3 synthesizer/vocoder, which is like the little sibling to the Korg Radius. Then you have demos of Simple Minds keyboardisst Stephane Deriau-Reine playing Arturia’s new Jupiter-8V, a software recreation of Roland’s classic Jupiter 8 polyphonic analog synthesizer, and Arturia’s Origin, which is the company’s first hardware synthesizer. The Origin is a digital synth with models based on several classic analog machines, such as the Minimoog, Yamaha CS-80 and Arp 2600. Finally, you get an overview of Yamaha’s latest keyboards, the MM6 “Mini Mo” and the Motif XS workstation. Remix Podcast Day 3 Winter NAMM 2007
It’s the final day of the show for Mix Podcasts and in some ways it was the best day of all. I talked to Rupert Neve Designs about the imminent release of their console (:54). I also spoke with engineer/studio owner Alan Sides about his new high-end speakers and a new drum sample collection recorded on his vintage selection of mics and optimal signal path (3:14). Next I spoke with Jim Coper at MOTU about their new software release and soon-to-be-released drivers for the Vista OS (6:54). The new software running on a dual core Mac is capable of running 100o plug-ins! Lastly, I talked to Peter Gorges at Digidesign about their new sampler (13:31).Check out our Day 3 Podcast
Today’s podcast starts with an interview with Doug Rogers of EastWest, whose company–it was announced today–will be partnering up with Digidesign to provide sounds for Structure, the new sampler for Pro Tools that Digi unvieled today. Rogers talks about that and about Fab Four, the new EastWest instrument that recreates the instrumental sounds of the Beatles.
Next up is an interview with David Gedge, leader of a very successful British indie band called the Wedding Present. Gedge gives his impressions of NAMM, and talks about how technology has affected him over his twenty-year career.
Topping off the podcast is an interview with drumming superstar Omar Hakim, who talks about his studio, the difference between playing acoustic and electric drums, and more.
This 20-minute edition starts with a demo of Moog’s new Freqbox Moogerfooger, followed by an interview with Public Enemy producer Johnny Juice on producing and mixing with a subwoofer monitoring setup. Next you’ll hear 2 demos from Propellerheads’ new Reason Reggaeton Refill and an overview of GCI’s new iKey portable recorders. Finally, you get Del Tha Funkee Homosapien freestyle rapping at the Ableton booth. Check out the
I found a lot of cool gear here today! You’ve got to hear about the new DI/reamper from producer/engineer Michael Wagener (:50) and the latest mic release from Mojave Audio (12:11). The absolute best part of today was listening to Steve White (5:51), he’s a blues player that lives just north of San Diego and mesmerized everyone that came across his path. I’ve got a short clip that’s a must listen. I also talked to Line 6 about a great new guitar/vocal/everything plug (7:45) and SoundToys about their latest products (13:40). Last but not least, Digi showed me three great plugs that provide tape saturation, delay and flanging (15:33). Fridays are nuts but Saturdays are like the 405 during rush hour. Check out our Day 2 Podcast and visit the website for more hot NAMM news and products.
Today was full of DJ news, as many companies scramble for a stake in the growing digital DJ market. This podcast covers Numark’s latets DJ controllers, Native Instruments’ new DJ timecode software and audio interface and M-Audio’s new flagship MIDI/audio interface for it’s Torq software. To skip to Native Instruments, go to the 16:15 mark, and to skip to M-Audio, go to the 22:20 mark. And here is the Remix NAMM 2007 podcast day 1.
The EM podcast from day 1 of NAMM features product coverage of the Frontier Design AlphaTrack (which will be shipping in a couple of weeks), the Roland VG Stratocaster (which was announced today), and an interview with progressive rock keyboardist Erik Norlander. Click here to listen.
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