{"id":151114,"date":"2021-09-04T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=151114"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:36:12","slug":"virtual-noisemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/virtual-noisemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual noisemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Possibly of interest to those who make music with their computers or might want to do so: IK Multimedia is currently running a “group buy”<\/a> of much of their software. If you purchase one of the eligible items, after you install and authorize it you can then download at least eleven<\/strike> thirteen<\/strike> twenty-four more software packages of equal or lesser price for free. I stretched my budget a bit to participate, but it will be a while before I know the new toys well enough to discuss. The “MODO” Bass, at least, I’m pretty sure I’ll use.<\/p>\n

I got curious about the music software I most frequently use and noticed something odd. IK Multimedia<\/a> is an Italian company. Applied Acoustic Systems<\/a> is Canadian. Arturia<\/a> is French, as is Modartt<\/a>. Native Instruments<\/a> and u-he<\/a> are both German. My digital audio workstation is Logic, an Apple product, but Logic originally was developed by the German company C-Lab\/Emagic, from whom I initially purchased it over twenty years ago. There are a lot of other music software developers, and it’s possible that there are some significant makers from the USA that I’ve overlooked. However, the synths and samplers I usually load in my DAW are all from foreign lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Possibly of interest to those who make music with their computers or might want to do so: IK Multimedia is currently running a “group buy” of much of their software. If you purchase one of the eligible items, after you install and authorize it you can then download at least eleven thirteen twenty-four more software … Continue reading “Virtual noisemakers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Djk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151114"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158880,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151114\/revisions\/158880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}