Big props to Saylor for the awesome Yelp! review…We’ve begun a really cool new project with Saylor Billings called the O-Line Mysteries, a mystery, comedy podcast. Check out Saylor’s review:

09/18/2008

Energetic, excited, organized-what else can you ask for in sound engineers?  How about creative, on-time, professional, confident and clever?  I’ve worked with sound engineers across the country and Canada and this crew has the fundamentals down with an eye on the future and YOUR finished product.  I feel very lucky to have found them (after an exhaustive internet search and word of mouth) and look forward to working with them more in a variety of venues.  I would absolutely recommend them to anyone, they have true experience in theatre, film and digital media.  Their studio is 1 part downtown “Soho workspace” theatre, 1 part Star trek media console and 1 part relaxed artist space and no pretense.  I ‘m reluctant to share my “diamond” find but they do such a great job, they are a good partner to have in the artist community.
Saylor Billings - Billibatt Productions.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sound-arts-san-francisco

And if you have some thing nice to say about Sound Arts…feel free to let us know by writing your own review on Yelp!

In the fall issue of Make Magazine Brian Schmierer wrote an article about converting a usb game controller into an open source interface for Max/MSP. Make is a focused magazine with tons of awesome DIY projects and resources.

Brian has designed a variety of interfaces and controllers that communicate with vocoders, synths, sequencers, and self built VST plug-ins via Usb, MIDI, or OSC. For Brian and for Sound Arts, this is the tip of the iceberg!

Check out the aricle.

http://makezine.com

Today, during their mix session, I overheard Lily Taylor mention to Ryan Kleeman that they were looking to add some texture to a track…make it more vintage and vinyl-like. So after a quick hunt, I found a cool free plugin from iZotope, from Boston, MA. Check it out!

The ultimate lo-fi weapon, iZotope Vinyl uses 64-bit processing and advanced filtering, modeling and resampling to create authentic “vinyl” simulation, as if the audio was a record being played on a record player.

KeyToSound, a designer, developer and manufacturer of digital audio technology, musical instruments, and audio signal processors has just released an upgrade to a free instrument plug-in called “Remedy”. Great presets, a bunch of knobs to sculpt, and a classy old school design.

Download Remedy 1.1r3 for Mac.
Supports VST (including 2.4), AU, RTAS 6 and RTAS 7

Download Remedy 1.1r3 for Windows XP.
Supports VST and RTAS on Windows XP

Download the botkiller Remedy preset pack by brian botkiller
Arps, drums, lots of sounds in this little package!

Download the Remedy Preset pack by Aaron Jasinski
Great sounds to get you going! Find more info on Aaron at www.AaronJasinski.com

Download the Remedy Preset Pack by Elwood