Elk has launched a native app version of Elk LIVE for Mac OS desktop, an application that lets musicians jam over the Internet, with ultra-low latency.
Features:
Up to 5 Player Sessions: Elk LIVE lets you connect up to five people and play like you are in the same room.
Mixer: The onboard mixer gives you total control of Elk LIVE and lets you send two channels of audio and receive the same from each player.
Video Chat: Visually connect with each other to see important queues and communicate with your bandmates. Elk LIVE uses the camera and microphone on your computer for chatting – much like a Zoom call – so as not to interfere with the real-time live audio from your jam session.
What they say about it:
“With Elk LIVE, musicians can come together in its online virtual studio for real-time remote jamming, rehearsing, and collaborating ideas for songwriting – in perfect sync and with high fidelity, studio-quality audio as if they were in the same room. The new Elk LIVE native app for Mac OS is also ideal for delivering live online music lessons; now that Elk LIVE is available as a software-only download, students can easily download the software and connect with their teachers online for a low-latency, real-time lesson.”
The Elk LIVE native app for Mac OS is available now as a free download at https://www.elk.live/. There are no restrictions and anyone with a Mac OS system can download the software, create an account with no financial credentials required, and begin jamming online immediately.
Elk LIVE for Mac OS is available now as a free download. The service is currently in beta and is free. Details on pricing are to be announced.
Erica Synths has introduced two new compressor modules, designed to let you give your modular’s output a bit of ‘professional polish’.
First up is their Stereo Compressor Eurorack module. They say that the module is optimized for percussion sounds. The Stereo sidechain can be used to animate melodic layers on the beat and to bring your basslines to life.
Features:
THAT chip-based stereo compressor
DC coupled sidechain
Gain, Threshold and Compression Amount (Ratio) settings
Stereo Link for level detectors
Bypass switch
8 segment output level VU meter
The second compressor module is part of their DIY synth line.
Erica Synths and Moritz Klein have developed a series of educational DIY kits under the brand name mki x es.EDU. With this simple diode-based compressor, you can shape the dynamics of your sound, adding punch and consistency to your patches.
GPU Audio has released a free collection of impulse responses, along with a free, GPU-powered convolution reverb for Mac and Windows, Fireverb.
Impulse Responses essentially ‘sample’ the acoustic qualities of an environment, so they can be used to realistically reproduce the way a particular space effects sounds.
The pack contains 50 IRs from a huge range of sources. The IR pack is available to use royalty-free. The free pack includes the sounds of large spaces such as Churches, Halls, and Rooms, as well as more off-the-wall sounds, like the sounds of someone’s pharynx, a rotary telephone speaker, underwater bubbles, ribbon microphones, digital modular effects and more.
The free IR pack is available now, and can be used in a multitude of DAWs which have convolution plugins – but GPU Audio encourages you to try their GPU-powered FiReverb, which is available as a free download.
FiReverb and the 50 Impulse Response pack are available as free downloads at the GPU Audio website.
