Steinberg has announced Dorico – a new app that’s described as a ‘next-generation professional scoring software for composers, arrangers, engravers, copyists and educators’. It’s named after Valerio Dorico, one of the most important music printers in 16th-century Rome. Here’s what they have to say about it:
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/157362426] The latest episode of the SoundWorks Collection sound profiles features composer Jason Graves, discussing his unique approach to scoring Far Cry Primal.
This video, via Sonic State, features interviews and performance excerpts from an event celebrating the music of ‘Supermarionation’ composer Barry Gray.
Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg) has successfully made the transition from producing electronic dance music to scoring films, like the blockbuster Mad Max Fury Road & Johnny Depp film Black Mass. In this video, Holkenborg shares some of the synth secrets of his soundtrack for Deadpool:
In this official Roland video, video game composer Petri Alanko discusses the modular synthesizers that he used in scoring the upcoming game Quantum Break.
PreSonus has announced that the latest update to Notion for iOS introduces an in-app purchase that adds finger/stylus handwriting recognition. Using a finger or stylus, you can write music in your own handwriting and see it automatically converted to digital notation. With an Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro, you can even write with pressure… Read More PreSonus Notion for iOS Adds iPad Pro Support, Handwriting Recognition
Native Instruments shared these in-depth video previews of their Symphony Series sound libraries – Symphony Series String Ensemble & Symphony Series Brass Ensemble.
The latest in the SoundWorks Collection sound profile series features Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg) discussing his work on the new film , Black Mass, and also how he made the transition from doing dance music to film scores.
Synthesizers in the Movies, embedded below, is an hour-long documentary that looks at the history of synthesizers and electronic instruments being used on film soundtracks.
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