Category Archives: Danski’s Logic Blog

MOTU Audio Interfaces: Control CueMix on iPad

MOTU has released a free driver update (for both Mac OS X and Windows 7/Vista) for all MOTU audio interfaces that enables wireless control of the CueMix mixing features using an iPad. From MOTU: Imagine being able to control your mix, wirelessly, fro...

Waves Introduces NS1 – One Fader Noise Suppression

Waves just expanded their One Knob philosophy into the Noise Suppression field by introducing the NS1 Noise Suppression plugin. From Waves: The most intuitive professional noise suppression plugin ever created, Waves NS1 Noise Suppressor intelligentl...

Skype Introduces ‘Opus’ Audio Codec, With CD Quality Sound

A couple of months ago, I did a vocal session with a singer in Bali (a mountainous island of Indonesia, to the east of Java), judging her performance over Skype from the city of Amsterdam. That collaboration worked out well, even though the quality of...

Turn Multi-Touch Gestures Into Key Commands With BetterTouchTool

If you like using multi-touch gestures while you’re working with Logic Pro, BetterTouchTool will blow your mind. Developed by Andreas Hegenberg from München, this utility seriously extends the functionality of your (Magic) Trackpad. BetterTouch...

Google+ Launches ‘Studio Mode’ Audio In Hangouts

Today Google+ introduces a new audio feature, called “Studio Mode,” drastically improving the audio quality in Google+ Hangout sessions. Google+ Project Manager Loren Groves, on RollingStone: “We knew that in order for entertainers ...

How To Use Your Trackpad With Logic Pro 9

Multi-touch gestures have become an integral part of OS X since Lion. Instead of merely clicking and dragging, we’re tapping, pinching, swiping and rotating. Whether you have a desktop Mac with a separate Magic Trackpad, or a Macbook Pro with a ...

Sunday Reads

Good morning, campers! I’m out of fresh beans, so it’s instant coffee for me. These are the Sunday Reads for July 01, 2012. Apple Said To Prepare iTunes Changes To Improve Sharing (Bloomberg) Pitched to Perfection: Justin Bieber’s ...

Psychoacoustics: Where Sound Meets Your Brain

In this article, Emmanuel Deruty (Sound on Sound) has a close look at psychoacoustics and the human ear. He shows that it’s literally crammed with equalizers and dynamic compressors, including a multi‑band compressor. It even includes a filter ban...

1300 Pop Songs Analyzed: Popular Keys And Chords

Over the past 2 years, the people at Hooktheory have been painstakingly building up a database of pop songs taken from the Billboard Hot 100 and analyzing them one at a time. At the moment their database of songs has over 1300 entries of verses, choru...

Arturia Minimoog V – Free on June 21

In a little over 6 days, on June 21st – World Music Day – you can download Arturia Minimoog V for free. It’s a special version of the plugin – dubbed Minimoog V Original – that doesn’t include a backpanel. All sound...