Enjoy the magical interludes of A.R.Rahman, right from Roja to Endhiran(Robot), the complete collection of ARR’s Tamil Discography. It is close to 3 hrs of audio content(interludes from 66 Movies & around 350+ songs). Any great fan of AR would be delighted to hear them all. So this is for all the fans of A.R.Rahman and I’m extremely happy to have done this to celeberate AR’s birthday, which is on Jan 6th(tomorrow). According to me, hearing these tracks is the ultimate way to celeberate our “Mozart of Madras” Birthday.

I’ve categorized the tracks based on the movie year release, so it loads up & streams faster. Hope you all get to enjoy the magic that AR has created for all of us, all these years.

I take this opportunity to wish AR a healthy, peaceful and and a long musical life.

A.R.Rahman Magical Interludes (Roja to Endhiran the Robot)

Click the play button to listen to all the magical interludes of the ONE & ONLY, AR Rahman

For a lengthier hearing of these tracks, check the YouTube playlist link below :
Magical Interludes of A.R.Rahman

Following are all the movies from which the interludes are picked up:
Roja
Uzhavan
Thiruda Thiruda
Vandi Solai Chinnaraasu
Kizhakku Cheemayilae
Pudhiya Mannargal
Pudhiya Mugam
Gentleman
Super Police
Pavithra
May Madham
Karuthamma
Kadhalan
Duet
Manidha Manidha
Indhra
Bombay
Rangeela
Muthu
Love Birds
Indian
Kadhal Desam
Mr.Romeo
Minsara Kanavu
Iruvar
Ottam
Ratchagan
Jeans
Uyire
En Swasa Katre
Jodi
Padayappa
Taalam
K-Dhinam
Sangamam
Taj Mahal
Mudhalvan
Alai Payuthe
Kandukonden Kandukonden
Rhythm
Thenali
Star
Parthaalae Paravasam
Alli Arjuna
Kannathil Muthamittal
Baba
Kadhal Virus
Udhaya
Parasuram
Boys
Enakku 20 Unakku 18
Kangalal Kaithusei
Ayudha Ezhuthu
New
Desam
Ah Aah
Varalaru
Sillunu Oru Kadhal
Guru
Sivaji
ATM
Jodha Akbar
Sakkarakatti
VTV
Raavanan
Endhiran

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“Naina” – My Original Song Composition using Pro Tools 9 & Reason 6.

Naina - Original Composition

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macProVideo Music Theory 103 Rhythm TUTORiAL   |  Size : 196 MB

Following description is as per macProVideo :

In this 3rd tutorial in our series on Music Theory, Master Arranger and Composer Gregg Fine explores the nature of Rhythm and why it’s the driving force in music and composition…

Rhythm is at the very essence of being. Our hearts beat. We walk and run in time. The sun rises and sets. The tides ebb and flow. It’s no wonder that rhythm is at the heart of our music, too. In this tutorial Gregg Fine examines rhythm and shows us the theory behind constructing solid beats and how rhythm is used in different musical genres.

Rhythm is made up of many different components. In this tutorial you’ll learn about the foundation of beats. You’ll see how rhythm is broker down into its essential components: Tempo, Measure, Note Values and Rests. You’ll learn all about Time Signatures and how they influence the pattern of strong and weak beats in a musical phrase.

Gregg then starts moving the beat around: In this section he explains how musical rhythms are interpreted by creating Shuffle and Swing. You’ll discover the power of syncopation and how it helps create musical interest and adds unexpected excitement to a tune. There’s even a cool video that demonstrates playing behind the beat and how it affects the feel of a performance.

Finally Gregg takes you through 5 different musical styles, beat by beat, and explains the importance of rhythm in their construction.

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So, have you heard about or pros talking about compressors during the process recording/producing records? Of course you have. Many of the engineers in the music production scene often boast about their glowing tracks and how well they have achieved it through compression. Now to address what the pros are talking, lets look at and discuss(in comments) about the compression process, where and how to use compression in the recording chain etc.,

Compression, typically is an effect that can normalize your audio up to the levels where it stands out to sound uniform and neat. It evenly arranges the audio material and controls the levels that is very important, when there are large amount of tracks involved in modern day recordings. Thanks to all the computer power and the digital technology. Many audio professionals use compressors in all of their works and its very rarely we hear from someone who never have used compression in their music production. Well, most certainly when the mix goes to a mastering stage, it is quite obvious to use compression to polish the track and it has become a necessity to use compression in today’s world, be it analog or digital realm.

Well, there are times when compression is over used too, which is quite a human nature to overdo things . So lets not get there.

So how are compressors used in a recording studio or even in your regular home studio ?. There are 3 places where you can use compression. They are noting but the the recording chain, tracking chain and the mix-down chain. Let’s see each one of them below..

Recording Chain

In this step, the compressor is on a direct out or an insert of the mixer, which takes the mic signal, after getting boosted by the preamp. The main focus here is to normalize/optimize the audio while recording. But there is a strong opposition among folks recording on the computer sequencers(which is what it is today), in NOT to record with compression, but to record at complete 24 bits.

Tracking Chain (Which is were I use in my recordings)

In this step, Once your audio track is recorded on computer or on a multi-track, you can now add compression to each track individually to make them all sound even and normalized. The compressor here is added as an inert on the mixer.Say in the computer sequencer’s, the compression is added as an inerst plugin.

A classic compressor such as the UA LA-2A is a great choice for vocal tracks. It helps maintain the vocals polished on top of the underlying music tracks. But not many can afford such costly hardware compressors, specially the home studio music producers. The job can still be achieved well through all the modern software compressors that do a terrific job these days. So no worries.

Close up of the Universal Audio LA2A Classic Leveling Amplifier

Mixdown Chain

In this step, a few compression techniques may be used. Compressors can be applied on the busses or even on sends/returns, to accentuate certain parts of the mix.

Another advanced mix technique is called Parallel Compression, where the uncompressed source tracks are mixed with the compressed singnal coming back on a return or bus. It is a very good technique to adapt to and you can achieve some shining results. Try it out !!!

Some tend to put compressor on the master bus. You can avoid that, as you can deal with adding compression in the master stage, whether you send to a mastering house or do it yourself. When you do it yourself, try to make a nice solid mix and then take the bounced audio for the master project, rather than mastering on the mix project itself.

So that’s some breifing on compression folks. Please do check out my other post on “Should the Vocals be Compressed while Recording”

Also, check out all the Dynamic Processors

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John Williams – The Godfather of Orchestral Music/Scores. This man has done music for many more generations to come, already. His scores are so rich that it completely mocks the music we hear today. Seriously !!!

To even name a few, there is a lot to name.

Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, E.T, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Harry Potter(Prisoner of Azkaban), Memoirs of a Geisha, Home Alone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Empire of the Sun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman, The Patriot and much more……..

Come on, re-energize your spirits & catch the few orchestral magical themes mentioned above, from the links below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym5oTtqagPs (Fiddler Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLO4acMTCM (Jaws Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG5OsfOuEy0 (Star Wars Magical Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPhE1XZXw3s (E.T Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYikshdLcw (Schindler’s List Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6fka74ZnpU (Magical Jurassic Park Theme. My Fav)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3h2-QcHl4 (Saving Private Ryan Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCNHVMIYqiA (Harry Potter Hedwig’s Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dZcpgibeGk (Memoirs of a Geisha Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUeK1PP7-s (Home Alone Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4L3fWzaIg (Indian Jones & the Last Crusade Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw_GLNS995M (Empire of the Sun Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNNhBtBbOs (Raiders of the Lost Ark Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vrfEoc8_g (Super magical Superman Theme)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REUusj4nxh4 (The Patriot Theme)

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Native Instruments New Release Studio Drummer is Kontakt based acoustic Drum Instrument.

PRESS RELEASE: Studio Drummer is the perfect realization of a drummer in software, with everything you need to create realistic acoustic drum tracks – top-of-the-line drum kits, detailed mixing options, and a ready-to-go groove library, packed with authentic beats of all colours and flavours.

Native Instruments Studio Drummer - Create studio-quality acoustic drums in Kontakt 5.

By combining premium sampled drum kits and a comprehensive studio-grade mixing environment with a wide assortment of professional grooves, this new Kontakt-based instrument provides a highly versatile and easy-to-use ‘virtual drummer’ that gives authentic and fast results for pop, rock, metal, jazz and related music styles.

For use with the full Kontakt version and the free Kontakt Player, Studio Drummer makes extensive use of the advanced features of the Kontakt 5 generation to provide all necessary components for a first-class studio drums production.

At the heart of the instrument are three premium drum kits from Pearl, Sonor and Yamaha that have been sampled with painstaking precision in the renowned Teldex Studios in Berlin, using selected outboard gear and an especially sophisticated array of up to 18 microphones.

The resulting 17 GB of sample material incorporate up to 25 velocity layers with up to 6 variation samples for individual instruments, and contain over a dozen distinct articulations for snare and hi-hats as well as an alternative snare option for each kit.

The array of individual drum sounds in Studio Drummer is complemented by its extensive groove library, which includes over 3,500 rhythm patterns organized by 11 specific music styles.

All patterns including fills and variations were recorded directly from a professional session drummer, and converted into MIDI files for flexible usage in the Kontakt engine. All grooves can be adjusted for swing and tightness, and can be transferred into a host sequencer via Drag & Drop for detailed editing and arrangement.

In order to play the individual instruments in Studio Drummer directly, the software also offers a practical assortment of MIDI templates for various electronic drum sets and third-party drum software, combined with flexible custom mapping functions.

The comprehensive mixer section of Studio Drummer gives full control over all relevant aspects of the sound, allowing users to specifically tailor each drum kit to the individual musical context.

Detailed microphone settings with adjustable snare bleed, auxiliary mics and specific room and overhead controls can be either set by hand, or through the several carefully designed mix presets per drum kit that each represent a distinctive sound aesthetic.

By utilizing the classic EQ and compressor models derived from the new Solid Mix Series as well as the integrated Transient Master and Tape Saturator algorithms, Studio Drummer enables studio-grade sound processing with genuinely professional sound quality and flexibility.

Studio Drummer will be available in September 2011 for $169 / 149 EUR, and will also be included in the new Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate bundles.

Disclaimer : Information taken from official press release, for more visit Native Instruments.

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PRESS RELEASE: Native Instruments today announced Guitar Rig 5 Pro, the next generation of its versatile effects studio.

Includes New Amps & Effects + Sidechaining

The new version expands the comprehensive feature set of the software with additional amplifiers and effects, advanced speaker emulation, and various new creative features that make Guitar Rig even more powerful both for studio production and live performance.

In a further addition to its carefully selected arsenal of authentically modelled guitar amplifiers, Guitar Rig 5 introduces the new Van51 and HotSolo+ models, adding two distinctive flavours of heavily overdriven amplification for intense solos and heavy riffs.

The comprehensive collection of effects in Guitar Rig is expanded with six new components – including an additional classic compressor model, the versatile ‘vintage verb’ with various plate and spring emulations, a compact studio-grade convolution reverb based on the acclaimed Reflektor, an analogue-modelled 8-band filterbank, the new ‘stereo tune’ chorus, and the unique Resochord harmonizer.

Guitar Rig 5 also introduces the ultimate facility for flexible and intricate speaker emulation with its new convolution-based ‘Control Room Pro’ module. From a comprehensive collection of 27 cabinets and 16 microphones, up to eight cabinets can be combined at a time, each with individual mic placement and room sound controls, enabling an unlimited array of guitar tones for sophisticated studio productions.

The new sidechaining function in Guitar Rig 5 opens up the world of advanced studio-level dynamic processing, and also perfectly complements the new range of Guitar Rig-based studio processors such as Vintage Compressors and Solid Mix Series.

The sidechain can be assigned to any stereo input of the software, and can be utilized for all compressor modules in Guitar Rig 5 as well as in several of the Modifier modules, allowing for more refined dynamic processing and a wide range of creative techniques.

The performance features of Guitar Rig 5 are further enhanced through the new Container, which allows users to easily create, control and recall encapsulated effect chains.

With up to sixteen flexible macro controls, it also provides extremely powerful and intuitive real-time tone shaping both for guitarists and electronic live performers.

Guitar Rig 5 Pro will be available in September 2011 for $199/179 EUR, and will also be included in the new Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate bundles.

Disclaimer : Information taken from official press release, for more visit Native Instruments.

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Native Instruments Announces Komplete 8 bundle with three new additions plus Komplete 8 Ultimate with even more content & sound libraries.

In what’s now becoming something of a summer tradition, Native Instruments has unveiled a new edition of its popular Komplete software bundle.

Komplete 8 brings together the most recent versions of NI’s software family (including the new Kontakt 5 and Guitar Rig 5) while adding three new products to the bundle, bringing the total amount included up to 27 instruments, effects and libraries.

The new additions come in the form of the newly-announced Kontakt-based acoustic drum instrument Studio Drummer, the upcoming Transient Master dynamic processing effect and the recent West Africa percussion instrument.

The company has also announced the Komplete 8 Ultimate bundle, which combines the full range of all currently available Komplete instruments and effects on a dedicated USB 2.0 hard drive.

The resulting collection brings the Komplete 8 Ultimate package up to a total of 50 individual products, including over 13,000 sounds and 240 GB of sample content. According to NI the Ultimate package results in an effective discount of over 80% compared to the individual prices, which is nothing to scoff at.

Both packages have been optimised to work with the company’s hardware/software goovebox Maschine, with automatic parameter mapping to the hardware control surface.

Both packages will be available from September 2011, Komplete 8 with an RRP of $559 / 499 EUR or $229 / 199 EUR as an update from previous versions. Komplete 8 Ultimate has an RRP of $1099 / 999 EUR or $559 / 499 EUR as an upgrade for owners of any version of Komplete. UK pricing for both TBC.

Check Native Instruments’ site for full details of both packages.

In other news, Native Instruments has also just announced Kontakt 5, Guitar Rig 5 Pro and a new Kontakt instrument called Studio Drummer. Follow the links below to read each press release.

In other news, Native Instruments has also just announced Kontakt 5, Guitar Rig 5 Pro and a new Kontakt instrument called Studio Drummer. Follow the links below to read each press release.

Kontakt 5 press Release

Guitar Rig 5 Pro Release

Studio Drummer Release

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PRESS RELEASE: Native Instruments announced Kontakt 5, the next generation of its leading software sampler, claiming the flagship product of NI is now coming up with enhanced sound shaping, superior timestretching and great new effects.

Software Sampler Kontakt 5

The new version(kontakt 5) offers profoundly enhanced sound shaping through a host of new high-quality filters and studio-grade effect algorithms, superior timestretching, vintage sampling modes, and much more.

Being the top rated sample library platform on the market, Kontakt 5 also announces 2 major new features for advanced instrument design.

In a further major expansion of its unrivalled sound shaping capabilities, Kontakt 5 introduces a completely new suite of high-quality filters, developed by the creative mastermind behind the acclaimed Massive synthesizer.

Ranging from classic analogue-style ladder and state-variable models to modern formant filters, some of the 37 new filters also employ the unique new Adaptive Resonance concept, which automatically manages the filter characteristics to prevent unpleasant sonic artifacts from excessive resonance peaks.

At the same time, the superior new TimeMachine Pro time-stretching algorithm in Kontakt 5 enables unprecedented sound quality for harmonic solo instruments and similar demanding source material.

The comprehensive effect assortment in Kontakt has been extended with several key additions that focus on studio-style sound processing. The new Solid G-EQ and Solid Bus Comp algorithms – derived from the upcoming Solid Mix Series – enable studio-grade equalization and compression, while the separately available Transient Designer has been integrated into the effect arsenal of Kontakt in its original form.

Additionally, a new analogue-modelled Tape Saturator can add natural compression and subtle organic overdrive, while the acclaimed vintage sampling modes from Native Instruments’ groove-production system Maschine have been integrated into the feature set of Kontakt 5 as well to provide additional flavours of charismatic vintage dirt.

For ambitious sound designers and professional sample instrument creators, Kontakt 5 introduces both a powerful new instrument bus system as well as KSP-based MIDI file support. While the 16 internal stereo busses with their separate insert chains open up greatly increased routing flexibility, the MIDI file functions in the Kontakt Script Processor enable the creation of advanced types of Kontakt-based instruments with versatile integrated MIDI playback features, as demonstrated in the upcoming separate Kontakt-based Studio Drummer instrument.

On top of its acclaimed 43 GB factory library with its eight separate instrument collections, Kontakt 5 also includes a free download of the new Kontakt-based Retro Machines MK2 instrument, which offers an assortment of highly sought-after classic synthesizers complete with vintage-style arpeggiator and chord player, and also takes advantage of the new analogue-type filter models.

Kontakt 5 will be available in September 2011 for $399 / 379 EUR, and will also be included in the new Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate bundles. An update for owners of previous Kontakt versions will be available for $119 / 99 EUR.

Disclaimer : All the information mentioned above were taken off the official press release from Native Instruments

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Vocal Recording Tips – How to Monitor Effects & Dry Record while performing & Recording Vocals

The best practice to record vocals is to record it dry. But most vocal artists are at their best when some effects are added that they can monitor while recording. It gives you a sense of being with the song when the effects are added. Recording dry vocals would obviously sound seperated from the underlying
music track.

Basically you can record the audio with the effects while tracking or just monitor the effects and record it dry.

To Monitor & Record Vocals with effects onto an Audio Track :-
Put the mic (input) into an Aux track and add the necessary effects. Bus it over to an Audio track & record enable the tracks. Turn the fader/slider down on the Audio track, as you don’t want to hear the sound from both Aux Track & the Audio Track. You can just monitor the Aux track with its effects. This way you will hear vocals with effects & also be able to record it simultaneously onto the Audio Track.

To Monitor Vocals with effects but ONLY Record Dry Vocals onto an Audio Track :-
Now, If you don’t want to record the effects, then run the mic(input) to both the Aux & the Audio Track, instead of bussing from the Aux to the Audio Track. This way you can still monitor through the Aux Track but ONLY record dry through the audio track, which serves the purpose to hear the effect while recording but not actually record them. You also don’t have to about auto input monioring using this method coz all of the monitoring is through the Aux Track & auto input monioring doesn’t affect the Aux Tracks. But make sure you turn the Audio Track faders down or you’ll be double feeding the stereo bus.

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