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Image Line Music Plugin yard sale - 40% off Deckadance, Sytrus, Toxic Biohazard, Morhpine, Poizone...

Every few years, Image Line (the makers of FL Studio) has a "yardsale" and offers huge discounts on plugins. The last time they had a sale this big was 2 years ago. Save 40% off the following items. Note, if you've never purchased from image line before you can save an additional 10% off with by clicking here.

• Sytrus $179 $109 (-$70) 
• DirectWave $99 $59 (-$40) 
• Toxic BioHazard $99 $59 (-$40) 
• Poizone 2 $79 $49 (-$30) 
• JuicePack $99 $59 (-$40) 
• EZGenerator $129 $79 (-$50) 
• Morphine $159 $95 (-$60) 
• Maximus $189 $119 (-$70)
  Deckadance Club Ed. $179 $109 (-$60) 
• Varazdin Orchestral $169 $99 (-$60)

The sale runs until September 15th. Visit the Image Line Store to learn more.

Mark Mosher
www.modulatethis.com

Image Line Posts Video Tutorials on Slicex

Slicex is a new beat slicing tool introduced FL Studio 8. As you can see from the screenshot above, there are a lot of controls. Image Line has posted 5 new videos on their site to help you shorten the learning curve.

Mark Mosher
www.markmoshermusic.com
www.modulatethis.com

FL Studio Video Tutorial: Using the Keyboard Editor to Modify Pitch, Drag Notes, and add Portamento

Watch this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZTxaNsCEg.

This video tutorial covers how to go sequence with the Keyboard Editor and covers creating notes with different pitches, moving notes, and using portamento.

If you are new to FL Studio, you can save 10% with this link.

Mark Mosher
www.markmoshermusic.com
www.modulatethis.com

FL Studio 8 Now Available - Get 10% Off

Image Line just released FL Studio 8.  While I don't use it as my primary DAW, I do use the killer step sequencer for programming loops from time to time. Image Line's policy of free updates (yes, free) has made it a "no-brainer" for me to stay current. I've just downloaded version 8 and can report that it runs fine on Vista and opens my old projects back just fine.

New user pricing depends on which edition of FL Studio you choose (see links at bottom of post). Use this Modulate This link and save 10% all Image Line Products.

So what's new in FL Studio 8?

• FL Synthmaker - create & share your own FL instruments.
• One-click-recording using Edison wave editor plugin.
• Slicex, a new drumloop slicer & re-arranging tool.
• Soundgoodizer is a 'maximizer-enhancer' plugin based on the Maximus sound-process engine.
• Fruity Limiter for maximizing & compressing final mixes or individual tracks.
• Wave Candy is an audio analysis and visualization tool with Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer and Peak Meter.
• An update to Directwave
• Slip editing and resizing tool has been added to the Playlist for all clip types.
• More...

More info:

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Mark Mosher
www.modulatethis.com
www.markmoshermusic.com

Link for 10% off Image Line's New Toxic Biohazard VST Synth

Image Line, the makers of Fl Studio have released Toxic Biohazard, the 4th generation of their Toxic line of software synths. The synth runs on Windows XP/Vista as a VST or on Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) or OSX 10.5 (Leopard) as a VST or AU.

For new users, this synth will set you back $99 (use this link to save 10%). Existing users can upgrade for free.

What's new?

• Improved sound quality
• "Physical Envelopes" that allow you to model how sounds in real world decay & resonate etc...
• Integrated effects such as tube-like distortion, to warm stereo delay, reverb, flanger, and phaser.
• A hybrid synth engine combining FM and subtractive synthesis
• A complete rebuilt FM engine adding warmth
• Alias-free oscillators with low CPU consumptom
• An integrated simple sequencer (64 steps, which can be divided into two independent, 32 step modules to allow double-polyphonic patterns. Using our own "Smart Sequencer" technology, when a chord is played, the module defines that chord, and tunes the pattern accordingly.)

Visit http://www.image-line.com/documents/toxicbio.html to learn more, download a free demo, and listen to samples songs created with Toxic Biohazard. Image Line has also published a nice set of video tutorials on Toxic Biohazard here.

Video Tutorial: Creating A Pattern with the Step Sequencer in FL Studio

This video tutorial will help those new to FL Studio quickly get their mind around step sequencing. It covers how to create a basic pattern using FL Studio's Step Sequencer. The tutorial also discusses the Channel Window. You can also see the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9xj_v65UhU.

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Video Tutorial: How to Use the Vocoder in FL Studio

Step-by-step video tutorial showing you how to use the Fruity Vocoder in FL Studio. This tutorial is for advanced users. You can also see the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eDGVxwJWE0.

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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. "

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."

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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

M-Audio Trigger Finger Tutorial & Enigma Preset for FL Studio FPC

None of the default Trigger Finger mappings work with FL Studio's FPC. I've created a preset that works with FPC using the Enigma Editor.  In this article I'll show you how to download my Enigma bank then copy the preset for FPC into one of your Enigma banks.

The article is rather long, read on, and feel free to comment with your own tips...