Top 10 Pro Tools Tips for the Newbie

Update: 20 Intermediate Pro Tools Tips now posted!

During my years of experience in the field, I’ve had tons of people asking for advice. Specially advice on DAW systems – mainly Pro Tools, because it’s the industry standard  - and because Digital Audio Workstations can get complicated.

The tips I keep repeating are rarely heard, and then they come back with more serious problems – because they didn’t listen the first time. It’s not because they are stupid, but because it’s normal to be excited about this new investment, thinking Digidesign is just like any other company who makes products that “just work”. Unfortunately products that “just work” are a very rare breed in today’s technological age, so people need to be prepared… More…

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ILIO Shipping Synthogy Ivory Upright Pianos

ILIO announced today the release of Synthogy Ivory Upright Pianos. Featuring 4 different sampled instruments, capturing every key in up to 10 velocities.

The four pianos included are a new Yamaha U5 upright, a well-preserved 1914 Hume, an early 1900’s tack piano, with genuine tacks in the hammer felts, and a 1915 Packard Honky-Tonk piano, which spent many years in Boston’s famed Cheers bar. Upright Pianos was designed to be versatile, appealing to musicians interested in alternative rock, pop, country, folk, blues and period music. More…

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[Special Review] About Right Lok and Load 2.1

It’s been some time since the Moozek preview of the unique DAW plug-in manager Lok and Load. A lot has happened, and a new version was released. We were offered the new version for reviewing, and I made sure an unbiased review was written about this new application with a very exciting concept. More…

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iZotope Announces iDrum for iPhone and iPod Touch

Worthless software for overpriced hype device, or a little musical revolution in disguise?

iZotope iDrum for iPhone and iPod Touch (so many i’s) allows the sketching of beats on an everyday portable device, which could prove useful for songwriting. The application makes beat-making available to everyone with its simple interface.

“The iDrum application takes advantage of unique features of the iPhone platform — users can tap virtual pads to create rhythms, shake the handset to clear patterns, and use slide and flick gestures to navigate the application’s interface. Immersive, colorful visuals show the relationship between different sounds in the beat, allowing users to create new rhythms by creating visual patterns. Using a special companion application, beats can even be turned into ringtones for iPhone.” More…

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[Download] Moozek Studio Foam Wallpapers

There aren’t a lot of quality wallpapers for studio-oriented environments out there. Most desktop backgrounds are created by designers who see nothing else besides pretty, inspirational stuff… for design! What about us? Musicians and studio professionals need to show off a wallpaper they can be proud of, whether they’re running PC or Mac, and still get a warm fuzzy feeling out of it. (Downloads after the jump) More…

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Moozek RSS & Email Subscription

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In the meantime, you don’t really need RSS feeds - now you can subscribe just by writing your email address in the box on the right, and hit Subscribe to Moozek! Then go through the annoying captcha and check your e-mail to activate. Presto. Updates are set. Or you can click here.

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The Indie Age of Music

What could be in store for the Music Industry?

Opinion for ProRec.com. Read the full article.

Like a fast growing teenager from a broken home, the music industry has been tortured by painful and unexpected changes, finally learning how to survive on its own. Today, major labels are the melancholic parents in denial, missing the old days of sense of ownership. They are still in control, suffocating the market transformations as much as they can. But they are losing the game, and they know it: capitalism in the hands of the little ones is a doomsday device against the corporations - More…

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Audio Celebrity Watch: Glen Ballard

This is the first of a continuous series of articles where the most admirable celebrities in the contemporary music industry are referenced (producers, musicians, songwriters, engineers, and others). Knowing our goals and having someone to look up to is an important part of the music and audio craft, so this will be a very educational series, we hope…

YouTube video after the jump… More…

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Before The Music Dies

This is not new, but it’s important to talk about and make sure everyone watches it. It’s about the narrowing fine line between music as art and as product.

Continuing the point I tried to make with The Most Discussed Article on Moozek Yet, back in February, I believe this is something a lot more important to us as music professionals, than CDs mastered at -5 dB with 6% of sample clipping. Amen? Read on…(trailer included) More…

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Google Wants to Compete With Piracy

From the company we can never really tell if it’s evil and unscrupulous, or just evil and cool, comes a quest to kick those pirates ass, in the country where 99% (real data) of all music comes from illegal sources - China. And Chinese are one of the most avid music consumers in the world. But how does Google plan to do that? According to Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica: More…

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