The Soundiron/SCOREcast Mercury Symphonic Boychoir Extravaganza
Join your local SCOREcast Regional Community Chapter THIS WEEK and receive over $100 off on Soundiron’s new Mercury Symphonic Boychoir!
Read More →How to Use External VSTs with Sibelius 7: Part 2
In the second part of his tutorial, composer Derek Bourgeois deals with integrating VSL Vienna Instruments into Sibelius 7.
Read More →The Best in Free FX-Plugins
Composer and sound-designer Matt Bowdler looks at some of the most promising free plugins that can make your productions sound top-notch without you having to break the bank!
Read More →SPOTLIGHT ON: Sonokinetic’s “Sultan Drums”
Eanan Patterson takes you through a detailed look under the hood of Sonokinetic’s newest offering, Sultan Drums. From unboxing to download to DAW implementation and GUI features, this is a unique and in-depth view into the library from the driver’s seat.
Read More →Solo String Shootout: LASS and Spitfire
LASS: First Chair library and Spitfire Solo Strings each boast features representing a significant leap forward in solo string instrument plugins. SCOREcast’s Guy Rowland looks at both in a side-by-side comparison.
Read More →SCOREcast 2011 Holiday Deal Guide
The holidays are here, and there’s a plethora of deals and discounts floating around the Web for composers. Here’s our list of the best ones, constantly updated with links and details!
Read More →2011 NAMM: Vienna Symphonic, Synthogy, and more
Take a grand tour of five hot new plugins from the 2011 NAMM Show floor!
Read More →POLL: GEAR OF THE YEAR – 2009
Despite the long tail effects of a sharp economic downturn here in America, 2009 seemed to be a barn-burner year for music production software. Many companies delivered on promises made at the 2009 NAMM Convention back in January by coming through with products that have advanced the composing game a few steps ahead yet again. [...]
Read More →DSP cards and the Universal Audio UAD 2
In keeping with this month’s theme of “Gear and Software”, I wanted to talk a little more about my number 1 “My Perfect 3″ find: The Universal Audio UAD2 DSP Card. DSP cards for use in DAW’s have been around for a while now, predominantly starting with Digidesign and ProTools, then later came the UAD-1 [...]
Read More →SCO GEAR POST (Free TC Electronics Plug-in)
TC Electronics has just offered up their M30 Reverb plug-in for free until Wednesday. Available for both Mac and Windows platforms, click HERE and grab it while it lasts!!
Read More →Collaborating with Technology
For this month’s column regarding collaborations, I was thinking about all of this great technology these days, the Internet, and how people have – now more than ever – the ability to collaborate at many levels and from any location in the world. Songwriting, Arranging, and Scoring can now have many different authors if you [...]
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