Synthesist Matt Johnson (Jamiroquai) – In his latest video shares his thoughts on the Sequential Take 5 synthesizer, offers some sound design tips and demonstrates his new sound library.
“This thing is surprising deep. It’s really underrated!” he notes. “If you stop comparing it to a Prophet 5 and just take it for what it is, it really is a smashing little thing, and you can come up with some otherwordly sounds for it.”
Johnson’s Sequential Take 5 soundset is available via his website.
Ardour 8.0 – a major update to the open source DAW for Linux, macOS + Windows – is now available.
What’s new in Ardour 8.0:
“Quick groups” – most mix-related controls now operate on all the selected tracks & busses
Manage sections of a song with arrangement markers. Define your verses, chorus, and bridge. Then rearrange or copy them as you wish.
Create persistent region groups in the editor window, to make multi-region editing easier.
Edit velocity easily on a dedicated automation lane whether it’s a single note or a chord.
Draw automation freely for any controller or press Control (Command) key to enable line-drawing mode. You can also combine free and line segments as you draw just by pressing and releasing the Ctrl/Cmd key.
Fit the tempo map to a human performance, with a new dedicated tool.
If (e.g. drum) note names are available for a plugin instrument or external device (via a MIDNAM file), see those names in the all-new MIDI track header.
Use Novation Launchpad Pro in DAW/Session mode (along with the standalone Sequencer, Note and Chord modes).
Create new interesting progressions with arpeggiator plugins.
Ardour 8 is available now to download, as both a ready-to-run program and as source code.
