Everything you
need to know about analog-style synthesis and digital effects.
 Everyone needs to be a synth programmer or engineer nowadays.
And not just keyboard players, either. Guitarists and songwriters
using the free copies of Cubase LE that tumble out of
the box along with a computer interface, drummers with a new DTX e-kit,
remix artists running Reason, live DJ/musicians running Live!, videographers
running Final Cut Pro or even iMovie. Garage
Bandits… the list goes on and on.
Released June 2007, the Sound Advice DVD features almost
9 hours of ‘no parameter left behind’ information and
expertise on analog-style synth programming and digital effects.
Written and presented by top sound designer Dave Polich, who
has crafted waveROM and presets and for many of the world’s
most successful music hardware and software products of the past
ten years, Sound Advice’s 3 DVDs (2 DVD-9 / 1 DVD-5)
encompass synth programming techniques, an exhaustive parameter-by-parameter
guide, and everything you could possibly wish to know about digital
effects.
The DVD’s navigation
system allows you to use Sound Advice in many different
ways: As a complete master class tutorial, as a work of reference
(you can search on individual sound parameters), or as an encyclopedia
of techniques and sound types (creating pads, modifying sound
FX etc).
Legendary producer and 2007 GRAMMY nominee Alan Parsons describes
the DVD as offering: "All you need to know about oscillators,
filters, envelopes, dynamics and effects that will enable you to
produce the sound that you are looking for on your synth - totally
from scratch."
DVD Contents
Disc 1 starts with how to create simple sounds; breaking down
examples into three main categories: decaying sounds, sustaining
sounds, and non-pitched sounds. The next section shows you how
to tweak a series of classic sound types: brightening up a piano,
changing the tone of an electric guitar, modifying the envelope
of a brass patch, and many others.
Disc 2 comprises an exhaustive look at all the major analog-style
synth parameters from Amplitude Scaling to Velocity Curves. Perfectly
watchable from start to finish, with diagrams, text boxes, and
plenty of real-world musical examples, Disc 2 is primarily designed
as a reference guide.
Disc 3 is entirely devoted to digital effects - now an integral
part of the sound design landscape - should be of particular interest
to 01xers since the DSP examined comes from the same stable as
that found on the 01x itself. All major DSP effects - from reverbs
and delays, to chorus, flanger, and phaser, to EQ and compression
- are examined in minute, parameter-by-parameter detail.
Who Needs It
Produced by KEYFAX NewMedia, who has been making instructional
videos and DVDs on music technology for more than 15 years, Sound
Advice is filmed in a clean and uncluttered style, with supporting
text boxes and simple diagrammatic material.
Talking ‘in plain English,’ Sound Advice is
aimed at the novice to intermediate user who has a keen potential
interest in sound, but who doesn’t exactly want to study
the subject at college. Applications include digital musicians
of all persuasions, songwriter/engineers, technology-enabled DJs,
and students and teachers in music education.
Sound Advice is available in all good music stores, or can be
purchased direct from
http://www.01xRay.com/soundadvice
Yamaha
01X mLAN Digital Mixing Studio is 'Editors' Choice'
BUENA
PARK, CA (January 14, 2005)—The Yamaha 01X was
among 25 products recognized for its innovation with an “Editors'
Choice” award from acclaimed trade publication Electronic Musician magazine, taking top honors in the
Hybrid Control Surface/Audio Interface category. MORE
O1X
Gets Industry Award
UK (October 18, 2004): At the UK MIA (Music Industry
Association) Awards ceremony awards held recently at a swanky bash
in Leicester Square in London town, Yamaha were awarded the best
Computer Music Hardware Product for their ground breaking O1X.
Voted for by UK retailers, distributors and press the people at
Yamaha were rightly chuffed.
MORE
The
01x is being featured in the AMD64 Experience Tour.
You'll not only see the latest, coolest ways
that AMD Athlon* 64 processors are shaking up your favorite computing
activities, but you'll also have the chance to grab dinner, chat
with the technology experts (Allen, Blake, Heratch, Phil or Tony
from Yamaha will be there!!!) and take your chance at winning
some great prizes.
Better yet, you can enter to win a cool Ferrari
notebook computer.
To register go to: www.amd.com/amd64tour
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