There has been a lot of talk on the Sonic Talk podcast and the Soinicstate website about this plugin which was co-produced by Dave Spiers (G-Force Software) and the guys over at Izotope.

This is a great new tool for sound designers everywhere as it harnesses the power of Izotope RX to make new sounds using a picture of an audio file which is then broken down into its constituent harmonics, allowing these to be played as separate sounds.

The blurb from their website is below:

Iris is an innovative sampling re-synthesizer that frees you to create sounds that could never before be produced. Start by dissecting up to three distinctive audio samples, using Iris?s spectrogram display and easy selection tools to spotlight the most interesting spectral characteristics. Blend and layer your modi?ed samples, then beef up their impact with a choice of suboscillator waveforms.

Still hungry for more? Add attitude and dimension to your creation by applying iZotope?s world-class effects and processors, including chorus, reverb, delay, distortions, and filters.

For the synth enthusiasts out there, never fear! Favorite synth features like amplitude envelopes, LFOs, root note detection and key mapping are all there for advanced musical control, as well as the all-new Radius®RT for real-time pitch-shifting while preserving your sample’s timing.

I have to admit I can’t wait to play with this monster and be rest assured create a special Padded Cell release with it as it has the potential to change the way we look at sound design not only on harmonic level but also in creating a new sound for our musical creations.

More info at Izotope

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News of a new release from Chris Randall and his chums at Analog Industries called ‘unsuspected sounds’.

The long-awaited day has come. I was waiting until the jackets arrived, so that I knew the most time-consuming part of the process wouldn’t have to be repeated. They just showed up today, and look fantastic. So I’ve made the unsuspected sounds page at BandCamp live, and you can listen to and purchase the album, in either digital or vinyl + digital forms.

All net proceeds will be donated directly to the Breast Assured Foundation of Tucson, so here’s your opportunity to show you’re with boobs, and hook them up. They do very good work taking their mobile labs to poor neighborhoods and providing free screening for breast cancer. Plus they have just about the best name of any charity group ever.

Get your copy on Bandcamp for the digital release.

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It is’nt very often that I enter into competitions but as I have been making samples for mostly a year now I thought I might give it a go and try my luck.

The details of the competition are below:

At Sample Magic we spend our days making the world’s best samples so that producers can make chart-hitting tracks, whether it be house, techno, dubstep, chillout, minimal, progressive or any other electronic genre.

This never-ending quest to find the world’s best sounds has led us to create the Sample Magic Sample Search.

We aim to seek out – and reward – the best up-and-coming sound designers across all genres with a bumper selection of prizes worth £500.

Prizes include a Korg Monotron hardware synth, £250 of Sample Magic products (including sample CDs, books and apps), plus clothing and compilation CDs from Defected and Hed Kandi Records.

Have YOU got the magic?

You simply send them a web transfer with 30mb of one shots and loops in .zip format before the 31st of July

Now, 30mb seems a bit small so what I will do is create this pack and then create another pack using the same techniques and give that away for free on the site whilst the original 30mb goes to Sample Magic.

More details at the Sample Magic website.

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Its been a while since I have been on the wheels so this month I decided on a new series of mix downloads that will be made available every month showcasing the best tracks of the previous month, via our friends at Mixcloud.

Profound then Rewound started life as a mix I did over 2 years ago with the same aim in mind so I am resurrecting it.

This mix sees some of the best tracks released in the last few months to get you started and covers funky through to Dubstep and baseline music, ripe for setting up a Saturday night out.

Tracklisting

01 – TJR – Funky Vodka (Original Mix)
02 – Jack Back feat David Guetta, Nicky Romero and Sia – Wild One Two (original mix)
03 – Nicky Romero – Generation 303 (original mix)
04 – Wolfgang Gartner – There and Back (Original mix)
05 – Firebeats – Where’s your Head at (original mix)
06 – Hard Rock Sofa – Quasar (original mix)
07 – Feed Me – One Click Headshot (original mix)
08 – Knife Party – Internet Friends (original mix)

Profound then Rewound Vol 1

For those of you who missed it, the player below courtesy of our friends at mixDJ has the full mix for your listening pleasure.

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It gives me great pleasure to introduce my new reord ‘iammrthebigman’

The concept is fairly simple; I wanted to show everyone the work I had done before I started taking this seriously and the tracks in this record really showcase the work I had done beforehand to help build and evolve my sound as an artist.

The record is the first release in a three part series which will be made up of the following:

1. iammrthebigman – the album
2. iammrthebigman – 8 track mixtape and a video on how I have remade the track ‘You’re Mine’
3. iammrthebigman – You’re Mine’ – to complete the series, I will be releasing the new version of You’re Mine and an E-Book detailing the story of mrthebigman from the very start until the current day. This will also be accompanied (hopefully) bythe music video for ‘You’re Mine’ made by my confidant ‘Zelda’ and then a behind the scenes video on the photoshoot with my friends.

Track List

1. Chiller
2. Just Once
3. Advantage
4. Poor Froggie
5. I Can Feel It
6. Useless
7. On Fire
8. Skip ‘n’ Jump
9. Certain Factors
10. You’re Mine
11. Advantage – mrthebigman remix
12. On Fire – T2D remix

Credits

All tracks in this record are tracks that were released or hidden over the years 2002-2008 and show the experiments and change in my sound over that time that later spawned T2D and mrthebigman as you know them today.

The record is completely free to download on a limited as in that 200 free copies are available.

Released 29 April 2012

Written by Jason Beggs with the exception of Certain Factors and Advantage which were writteb by Jason Beggs and Andrew Morrison

Vocals on Certain Factors written by ‘Sparkles’

Produced and engineered by Jason Beggs at ‘The Lair’.

Mastered at ‘The Lair.

Thanks

To my family and friends for helping me to realise this release. I would like to especially thank Karl, Seaneen, Katia and Gregorinho for their help and support throughout this process.

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I have two major releases planned for this weekend including a new record and a new mix in the “Profound then Rewound” series.

Other than that there will be New posts in the blog confirming what ill be up to over the next months as well.

Speak soon.

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The artwork has now meet finalized for the next series of downloadable records as seen above.

Now that this is complete I only have to master the other records and finish off the remake of You’re Mine.

Coming together nicely.

@mrthebigman

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This will be split into three releases as and extended set if you will.

1. The first release will be the full registered versions of around 10 or so tracks along with some remixes.

I Am also doing a re-imagined version of “You’re Mine” which will hopefully have a video to go along with it.

I Am also doing a version of “On Fire” bringing it up do date with my current production methods.

2. I will be releasing part 2 in May which will be a full Dj mix including several of the tracks from the first record along with some extras i am preparing to release along with it. There will be some new tracks in there along with some remixes of some of my other tracks.

3. The last part of the release will be an e-book detailing everything i have done in my career up to the T2D years. I will release this in June.

So, quite a lot to do. Did I mention I will have a new dj mix ready for you all every month in the “Profound then Rewound Podcast”?

Track selection is going on at the moment.

Holla

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Rack Extensions

This is a brilliant idea. Propellerheads do it again and i think this something that bridges the gap between it and other daw’s.

The fact that U-HE along with Softtube and G-Force are onboard only sweetens the deal.

Soundcloud partner with Ableton Live

I am guessing that Ableton haven’t a major update coming as their next update includes Soundcloud uplink which is what the update seems to be marketed on.

This has been done quite well as now you get a free copy of Ableton Live Lite for every Soundcloud user.

Loopmasters 100th Artist series competition

Loopmasters have a new competition in association with the freemasons and futuremusic magazine were you can send one of your own tracks mixed and mastered by them.

Great comp as it celebrates the 100th artist series of sample-packs.

Anyway, back to work although I can’t help but think DAW makers are now trying to get their programs into everyone’s hands (don’t get me wrong, great business idea) and that they have forgotten that current users are changing to different companies due to better features.

I can’t say that Soundcloud uplink makes me want to purchase Live 8.

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I plan to take some time away from samples to finish off some tunes I am working on before getting ready to release the History of MrTheBigMan.

I need to do a few remixes for that one so I’ll be at that for the time being.

However, now I have my new phone, I’ll be uploading pics and soundbytes to the blog as I work to give you an idea of what is going on.

I will also be changing the website to coincide with the release of the next record but I think once it is done this time it will be the last change of the year.

News coming soon on the IOS apps, just waiting for pay day to pay for the developers fees to make that happen.

The current tune I am working on is very closely resembling a Dubstep track. Unfortunately I haven’t sat down to create all the bass sounds needed for it but I will be making plenty and I will release them as a seperate sample-pack once I have done it.

Also, I am going to be re-releasing MaHassive which I gave away for free last year. I am going to make some more patches for it first though so that it is a bigger pack. Again, making bass sounds for the new record will take care of that.

Speak soon.

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