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FL Studio 7 Tip: Improve Performance on Dual-core and Multithreaded Processors

FL Studio 7 supports performance improvements for dual-core, multi-core, and multithreaded processors. Turn on multi-threaded generator processing via the menu OPTIONS-> General settings, and click the button indicated in the diagram above.

What does this do? Here is what the help file has to say about this feature:

"Multithreaded generator processing - If you have a multi-core or multithreading processor this option will distribute the CPU load of compatible generators across the cores improving performance. "

SampleRobot - A Fast Way to Clone Your Old Hardware Synthesizers

Looking for a way to sample your hardware-based keyboards into your software sampler? Take a look at Sample Robot. It's a software utility that lets you clone musical instruments by automating the process of sampling external instruments so you can build software versions.

The software uses MIDI to programmatically send note-on messages in various keyboard ranges and velocities to your external instrument. It then records the output of the instrument into samples files. These files can then be imported into software samplers.

A new version 2.50 has just released.  According to the press release:

"With the new generation 2.50 of
award-winning audio software SKYLIFE SampleRobot it is now even easier and
faster to clone musical instruments. In addition to the new Project Wizard a
lot of functions have been included to make SampleRobot an indispensable
creative tool for composers, music producers and sound designers.
Furthermore all SampleRobot products include hundreds of megabytes of high
quality and rare synthesizer multi-samples."

Learn more by visiting http://www.samplerobot.com/index_b.php

Ableton Live 6.0.9 Free Updrade Now Available

Ableton just release Live 6.0.9. It's a free upgrade for both PC and Mac Users.

Live 6.0.9 is online and can be downloaded using this link
www.ableton.com/downloads. You can also use the "Check for update ..." command from Live's 'Help' menu.

To see the list of what's fixed and new in 6.0.9, read on...

Ableton Releases An Entry-Level Version of Ableton Live - Live 6 LE. Link to Free Trial + Live 6 & Live 6 LE Differences.

Ableton Live is my primary software production tool. I love it's workflow. I've recommended it everyone I talk too - but at $499 US, price has been a barrier for many. Well, price is a barrier no longer as Ableton just launched Live 6 LE - an entry-level version of Live. It is aggressively priced at only $149 for the download version, and $199 US for a boxed version (which includes the Essential Instruments Collection).

Ableton's blurb on all this - "Step into computer-based music with more fun and less hassle. Live 6 LE provides a simple interface and the pro-level features you need for recording, songwriting, producing, remixing and DJing."

Live 6 LE Features:

• Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project
• Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing for software instruments
• More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*
• Includes two software instruments—Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*
• Supports VST and AU effects and instruments*
• Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files for DJing and instant remixing
• Tweak Live's controls in real time with any MIDI controller—just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping
• Multicore and multiprocessor support
• All editing of your musical creations is nondestructive, so you can experiment without worries
• Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation

As with Live 6, Live 6 LE comes with built-in tutorials called lessons to walk you through use of the software. The software is also localized into French, Spanish, German and Japanese.

Links:

• Learn More - http://www.ableton.com/live-le
• Chart of Live 6 vs Live 6 LE differences - http://www.ableton.com/pages/live_6_le/tour/comparison_chart
• Download free trial -http://www.ableton.com/pages/downloads/demo/le
• Buy - http://www.ableton.com/pages/shop/le

Image-Line Releases Addiitive Synth VST Morphine - Additional 10% Off

According to Image-Line "Morphine is a powerful Additive Synthesizer with a logical, flexible architecture that allows you to create any sound. You can do this directly by adjusting harmonics manually or by taking any input sample and resynthesizing it into one of 4 independent voices."

Use the links below to learn more:

• Product information and sample sounds
• Purchase online with this link and get 10% off

30 New Free Drum Kits for FL Studio FPC

Image-Line has released 30 free new drum kit's for FL Studio's FPC drum synth. As shown in above illustration, use the built-in download manager to access the kits.

According to Image Line:
"The "real" drums were recorded in as non-invasive a way as possible. No EQ, no compression, nothing but a drum and a microphone (or two). This was done so that the end user could modify the sound of each drum to his or her liking. They were recorded using the best mic for each specific drum. So the range of microphones used were pretty big. AKG C1000's, Octava MK-012's, and Shure PG81's were used as overheads. AKG D112, Shure Beta 52 and Sennheiser MD421MKII's were used for Kicks and Low toms. Sennheiser MD421MKII's, Shure Beta 98DS's, Sure SM57's and Sennheiser e604's were used on toms. A Shure SM57, Rode NT1a, and a and a Shure Beta98DS."

Related Links:

• Get 10% off all Image Line Products

Other FPC articles on this blog:

• M-Audio Trigger Finger Tutorial & Enigma Preset for FL Studio FPC
• Free FPC Kits for Registered Users
• How to Import Sounds Intro FPC and Build Your Own Presets

Synth Pioneers DEVO New Song "Watch Us Work It" in Dell Commercial

According to a recent Devo fan clup newsletter:

"DEVO wrote a new song called "Watch Us Work It" and recorded at Mutato Muzika in Los Angeles, CA, and produced by Sweden's famous Teddy Bears. DELL heard it because Paul Malmstrom and Linus Karlsson at the Mother agency in NYC played it for them as a possibility for a song for their TV campaign featuring a newly developed, high-end laptop computer. DELL liked it, and now you can hear this brand new DEVO song when you watch the commercial currently running on nationwide TV.
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The song is now available on iTunes! Download it here.
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See recent article regarding "Watch Us Work It"on Adweek.com "

More info and for links to different versions of this video.