Some apps live up to expectations. Others do not. Some become better with each update and upgrade. The audiophile music player app Audirvāna Studio gets better with every update. One year after I wrote my first review, I was ready to revisit the app wearing my reviewer’s hat.… Read More The Audirvāna Studio audiophile music player, one year later
How long has it been now? Could it be about eight years that we see more and more subscription based software pop up? Is it worth the money, paying those yearly fees? Or has it been a rip-off as many people thought when the first developers (I remember Adobe, which do you?) switched to them with a nice marketing peptalk to go with them?… Read More Subscription based software licences can make sense, but…
ProGrade introduces a dual-slot USB-C SDXC/microSDXC UHS-II mobile card reader optimized for mobile use and a CFexpress Cobalt cards of 165GB that is capable of 1700MB/S transfer speeds.… Read More Review: Dual-Slot SDXC/microSDXC Mobile Card Reader, CFexpress Type B 165GB Cobalt Memory Card
If you shoot video with a camera and an audio recorder without either having a built-in timecode generator and/or genlock feature, you will know what a pain it is, because you always end up with synchronisation problems. The advice usually is that you need to spend your money on a timecode generator and preferably one which also has genlock (that’s the feature that ensures your devices stay in sync). What if you don’t have the money or want to spend it on a couple of Tentacle Syncs or Denecke Syncboxes? Here’s a solution for footage of under 20 minutes long.… Read More Synchronising a GoPro HERO 9 and an audio interface with an iPad and a metronome app
After having tried 23 sample collections including the free ones from Orchestral Tools, I am impressed and can wholeheartedly advise the company’s SINE Player plug-in and collections. The quality of sound, the articulations (or techniques), styles, modes, and customisability are all unsurpassed.
Orchestral Tools’s flagship collection bundle is The Berlin Series Main Collection, which I got a chance to review a few weeks ago.… Read More The Berlin Orchestra in all of its glory: Orchestral Tools Berlin Series Bundle
My personal favourite for any cable is Sommer cable from Germany. I tested their EMC-Quad and Carbokab microphone cables a few years ago and since then I’m sold on the quality and robustness of their offerings. The standards they maintain should come as no surprise, though, as they supply cables and equipment to all major TV and radio stations in the world. Unfortunately, they don’t make Thunderbolt cables. Luckily, there’s Apple with its 3m Thunderbolt 4 cable, the best money can buy.… Read More Short review of some good, long USB-C and Thunderbolt cables
Orchestral Tools’s SINE Player is the only music creation plug-in for DAWs I know of that allows you to achieve results so close to conducting a real-world instrument or orchestra you can’t hear the difference. Their Berlin Series has been expanded with the Berlin Con Sordino Strings collection. It’s a large set of string samples,… Read More Orchestral Tools Berlin Con Sordino Strings for film composers and musicians who need emotion on the verge of exploding
Fiedler Audio, the company behind Spacelab Ignition and Interstellar, was founded in 2013 and based its plug-in on scientific research. Much of Spacelab’s appeal is related to the interface and the Fraunhofer-based 3D-reverb technology. Spacelab combines reverb, 3D-panning, and spatialisation in one plug-in. Spacelab’s Interstellar reverb plug-in is like the movie: a grand scale on a scientific foundation. … Read More Spacelab Interstellar reverb plug-in review
Note taking apps are everywhere and everybody seems to be using them as a “second brain”. The most powerful apps support Markdown, wikilinks, backlinks and a notes “map” based on links between them. Taio aims at becoming one of those on Apple’s platforms.… Read More Taio is an elegant, CommonMark editor
Best known for its FlashBender range of products, Rogue Photographic Design has released a new set of flash modifiers, the Rogue Round Flash Magnetic Modifiers. The product range has adapters for regular and small rectangular flash heads. The products have superior resistance against wear and tear.… Read More Rogue Round Flash Magnetic Modifiers are easy to use, extremely robust
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