This Week’s Highlights: 5 of the Top Stories
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In this roundup, we look at some of this week’s highlights. So if you missed anything, here’s the perfect opportunity to catch up on the news.
This Week’s Highlights: Black Friday + Cyber Week
When it comes to music tech, Black Friday has become a massive global event for hardware manufacturers and software developers. This week is a great time to upgrade your DAW, add to your synth collection, or splash out on those studio monitors you’ve been eyeing.
On Gearnews, we’ve got a wide range of offers available from guitar gear to recording equipment, music production software, synths, and more. So if you’re in a retail mood, be sure to check out the range of offers on Thomann and Plugin Boutique.
For producers, there is a great opportunity to save on professional audio plug-ins like FabFilter and Soundtoys, so don’t miss out on this week’s frenzy of discounts.
This Week’s Highlights: Telepathic Instruments Orchid
I’m not sure what we were expecting from Telepathic Instruments, the new side venture of Kevin Parker aka Tama Impala, but the unveiling of the fledgling company’s first offering was more than a little underwhelming.
Perhaps, this is mostly because there is only a short teaser video available so far and no actual hands-on product demos. However, the premise of what looks like a retro-style chord-generating synth with a one-octave keyboard comes across as more of a novelty than a formidable instrument.
Of course, we have no info about the Orchid, other than the idea that it “helps songwriters and musicians find what’s on their mind“, according to the manufacturer. One can only hope that the firmware will allow new features to be constantly added and that there will be some kind of DAW integration because at this point the Orchid looks like more of a toy than a tool.
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This Week’s Highlights: Warm Audio WA-76 Series
This week, home studio users were blessed with a collection of new 1176-style compressors from Warm Audio. Although there is certainly no need for more FET compressors on the market, Warm Audio has yet again found a way to throw in modern features and add value for musicians.
The original WA-76 has been popular for years, but now we have the option of either the earlier (and dirtier) Rev A or the cleaner Rev D in both single and dual-channel editions.
With a wide range of options available, you can add this classic compressor to your tracking or mixing workflow in different forms, allowing you to find new ways to process single instruments or even your mix bus.
This Week’s Highlights: Slate Digital Stellar Echo SD-201
A new Space Echo plug-in might not be the most exciting of this week’s announcements but as an RE-201 user and fan, I’m always curious to see how close manufacturers are getting to the original tape echo unit.
As far as Space Echo plug-ins go, the Stellar Echo is one of the more thorough recreations I’ve seen. Not only is it equipped with all the hallmark controls, but there is also an impressive range of modern DAW-friendly features to make the Stellar Echo more utilitarian than a vintage tape effect.
The Stellar Echo expands the number of heads and reverb types, as well as offering stereo operation with a ping-pong mode. In addition, precise controls like high-pass and low-pass filters allow you to shape your sounds to fit your mix.
- More from Slate Digital
This Week’s Highlights: Scott Storch on Joe Rogan
This week, we saw producer Scott Storch appear on the wildly popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast. If you’re not aware of Storch’s work as a producer, he was one of the foremost producers in Hip-Hop in the early to mid-2000s.
Few artists have such a tale to tell of the ups and downs of the music industry, from starting out playing keys with The Roots to working on Dr. Dre‘s iconic 2001 album to creating the hits that launched Beyoncé into the stratosphere from her debut solo record.
At the height of his success, Storch was known for his distinctive Middle Eastern sound and unique self-taught approach to keyboard-based music production. Overall, the podcast was light and fun with some great stories and not too much talk of politics, for the most part.
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