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Software Instruments, Freed From Sampler Formats: SFZ, Free Sounds, Free Sample Player
“Free As In Free Me From Proprietary Formats.” If you’re ready to explore sounds – as a novice sampler user or as an advanced sound developer – SFZ brings tidings of great joy. When they move from defining mere sounds or samples to describing whole instruments, sound designers need file formats. The problem has been […]
Read moreProRes Support, Now in Open Source ffmpeg Video Library and Converter
ProRes encoding. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Satoshi Tomiyama. Big news for codec nerds – the major free video tool is adding support for Apple’s ProRes format. Spotted on the ffmpeg news feed: FFmpeg now has a ProRes decoder in master git. We want to support more raw or 10bit or broadcast codecs. We need samples of the […]
Peter Kirn - September 27, 2011
Archive Motion Music tech
For Lovers of Aalto, Semi-Modular Soft Synth, a Place to Share Patches
Producer Sam Greene was so in love with Aalto, the semi-modular, Mac and Windows soft synth whose developer we profiled last month, that he made his own place to share patches for it. Patches are free to download and use in your music, and you can upload your own; the only restriction is that the […]
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