Bricasti M7 impulses

The more generous souls that frequent the internet have teamed up to provide Impulse Responses from the glorious Bricasti M7 Reverb. The IRs were captured by the highly regarded IR specialists Acousticas. The best part is they're free and endorsed by Bricasti, so no moral conundrums. While an IR is not the equal, in complexity or tone, of a well programmed algorithmic reverb, they are a realistic substitute. They .wav IRs are available from here. And the .PST files ( Logic presets ) are here .The install instructions and correct install locations are specified in the folder with the logic presets.
Take ten minutes and install them, you'll may pleasantly surprised, I was.

James

Time strectching Tutorial

Imogen Heap has posted some fabulous vocal parts from an unreleased track for aspiring re-mixers to have a crack at. You can find them here. Inspired by this we've added a new tutorial, this shows how to time stretch vocals ( or any audio ) in Logic's arrange window. Even though this screencast focuses on Vocals, the same ideas can be used for any other type of audio track. You can view the video here.

Massey Tapehead

Another free plug-in. This time it's Tapehead from Steven Massey, Tapehead is saturation plug-in inspired by analogue tape machines. In their own words "add a little saturation to your mix. Make your drums fuller & louder. Add some grit to vocals." Not only is Tapehead amazing it's also free, you can download it here. To share the love, we've made an introductory screencast, to show some of the possibilities, you can see it here.

Launch of free plug ins page

As regular readers will know, we love free stuff or cheap ways of making things sound expensive. To that end we've added a page which will focus on free plug-ins. While we're not suggesting that free plug-ins is always better than paid for, they are a great way to add tools or tones to your armoury. The other bonus is that because they are developed free of financial constraints they are often more innovative, extreme and just downright weird.

We've kicked off with Prosoniq's free filter North Pole. The good news is, it's now available as an AU, so compatible with Garageband, Logic and other hosts that support the AU format. You can download North Pole from Prosoniq.com.

We've also knocked up a quick introductory video, which hopefully you'll find useful.

The best things in life are free. Part two

Browsing round the web this morning I came across a free samples offer. SampleLogic are offering 500meg of samples for Kontak 2 or 3. As free sounds are always welcome, I signed up for the offer, which takes the form of the usual request for address and email details. They're downloading as I type, so I haven't had a chance to try them yet but I thought it was worth sharing.

You can download them here, SampleLogic.

James

Getting it backwards

After a lengthy lay off in December we're back and our New Year's resolution is to try and post a but more regularly. To that end here's a mini tutorial showing how to reverse audio in Logic Pro. It's a terrible cliche but this video focuses on the backwards cymbal effect. Please bear in mind that you can perform this process on other audio and your not obliged to flip your cymbals round !! You can view the episode here.

Automatically yours

It's been a while but to make up for our laziness we've got a couple of new screencasts to post. In this episode we delve a little deeper into the possibilities of Logic's automation system. It's probably worth revisiting our previous automation tutorial here. In this screencast we focus on automating the parameters of plug-ins, both Logic's and third party. You can view the tutorial here.