Ujam annonces the release of the newest plugin named Beatmaker CIRCUITS. The virtual instrument is a part of the best-selling Beatmaker series. It makes perfect back-to-future drum groove with the sound of a classic drum machines. If you love the sound of drums, CIRCUITS brings great features for your music production.
Beatmaker CIRCUITS plugin
PluginsMasters presents Beatmaker Circuits features
UJAM Beatmaker Circuits is now available at pluginsmasters.com for 49 EUR until March 5th 2023. Owners of any other Beatmaker get it at 29 EUR. No worries before any purchase, try the FREE circuits plugin demo for 30 days. Beatmakers are natively Apple Silicon compatible and currently available in VST 2, AU 2 and AAX formats for all major DAWs.
Fabfilter creates audio plugins for mixing and mastering
Fabfilter is well-know for creating powerful audio effect plugins to make the best plugins and softwares for music production. Find for the product of your choice on pluginsmasters and get cheaper price.
Fabfilter TWIN 3 is a sound virtual analog and synthesizer. The lastest version has a fully redesigned and intuitive interface, easy to use for music producers and engineers.
– Virtual analog synth featuring four flexible oscillators, four filters, six FX modules, and a vast modulation system with a wealth of flexible source signal generators, drag and drop source/target routing, and almost no limit to the number of modulation assignments that can be made – NEW! Fully redesigned, greatly simplified interface with easier workflow – NEW! Added oscillator, for four in total – NEW! Two added filters, for four in total – NEW! Completely overhauled modulation system with redesigned modulation sources, and floating slot and FX panels – NEW! All-new FX section, housing Reverb, Delay, Chorus, Phaser, Drive and Compressor modules – NEW! Arpeggiator with groove/legato controls, note order, latch options and more – NEW! Full-featured preset browser, with tags, favorites, and search and filter functions, and new factory preset library – NEW! Per Oscillator polyphony mode: each incoming note triggers a different oscillator – NEW! Bell, Shelf and Notch vintage-style EQ filter shapes – NEW! 6dB/octave filter slope option – NEW! Modulatable Filter Freq/Peak Offset knobs, for adjusting all filters at once – NEW! High Quality mode – 4x oversampling – NEW! Transient mode turns Envelope Followers into transient detectors – NEW! Curve adjustment handles for EG Attack, Decay and Release stages – NEW! Slider mode (vertical-only operation) and Range setting (toggles between bipolar and unipolar behavior) for XY controllers – NEW! Hide all modulation sources except for XY controllers and Sliders at a click – NEW! Native sustain pedal support – NEW! Resizable interface with Full Screen mode – IMPROVED! Even better oscillator and filter sound quality, with analog-modelled drift – IMPROVED! Maximum number of voices doubled from 32 to 64 – IMPROVED! Lower minimum Envelope Generator Attack, Decay and Release times – IMPROVED! Maximum number of XY controllers/Sliders increased to six – IMPROVED! Envelope Generator Threshold, and XLFO Balance and Frequency Offset made available as modulation targets – IMPROVED! Modulation sources can be renamed – IMPROVED! Maximum number of modulation slots increased to 100 – IMPROVED! Legato mode for MIDI-triggered XLFO – IMPROVED! Range options added to MIDI Sources: Negative (-1 to 0), Centered (-1 to 1) and Positive (0 to 1) – PLUS! All the usual FabFilter features you’ve come to expect: perfectly fine-tuned knobs and controllers, interactive MIDI Learn, undo/redo and A/B switch, Smart Parameter Interpolation for smooth parameter transitions, an extensive help file with interactive help hints, sample accurate automation, NEON and SSE optimization, and more
Requirements of Twin 3plugin
System requirements are either Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 or Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) and a VST 2/3 host or Pro Tools, or macOS 10.13 or higher (64-bit only) with Intel or Apple Silicon processor, and an Audio Units host, VST 2/3 host, or Pro Tools. The plugin supports both Windows and macOS in VST and VST 3, Audio Units, AAX and AudioSuite plug-in formats.
How to get your Fabfilter Twin 3 cheaper ?
FabFilter Twin 3 is now available for EUR 129. New FabFilter customers can purchase FabFilter Twin 3 with 10% off on their first order on PluginsMasters by creating an account AND subscribing the newsletter at: pluginsmasters.com/my-account/
Meet PluginsMasters’ experts and Morris Pleasure on Twitch
Join us on ThursdayFebruary 2nd, 2023 on Twitch for the new Beat Clinic show from our recording studio Shaman Studio. For this new live Twitch we host a famous guest, collaborate with a new brand for your giveaways! Feel free to ask questions to the guest and experts in the live chat! Don’t miss out this stream.
Questions will be asked by our host, *be the first to give the right answer quickly on the live chat only
The winners contact us at marketing@pluginsmasters.com
We will answer you within 2 days and receive your giveaways
*Create a Twitch account to participate to the live chat
Morris Pleasure is the guest of PluginsMasters
PluginsMasters’ hosts are themselves sound engineers and music producers: Leroy, Martin and Luc. The show will take place in several rooms of the studio (control room, live room, voice booth) for a totally immersive rendering.
This 2nd Live on our Twitch channel will be with special guests: Kedma MACIAS, professional singerandMO PLEASURE, keyboardist in Michael Jacksons’This is It bandand . He worked with many artists as Mary J.Blige, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Bette Midler, Christina Aguilera, Janet Jackson, Roberta Flack, David Foster, Chaka Khan
PluginsMasters’ LiveTwitch schedule
Every Thursdayat 9 p.m CET Europe, you take part of the live show with the PluginsMasters team for Beat Clinic, our 2-hour-behind-the-scenes show on studio-production, with renowned artists, audio brands and products to be won each week.
Beat Clinic is a weekly show, scheduled to start on January 5, 2023, live on Twitch from our recording studio Shaman Studio, where we open the doors to a still unknown place in the music industry. You are welcome to join us, participate and ask questions on the live chat during the live. We will interact with you and give you the chance to winplugins and software!! You don’t need a Twitch account to watch the live.
Beat Clinic
PluginsMasters invites Dr.Fink and Cherry Audio
PluginsMasters’ hosts are themselves sound engineers and music producers: Leroy, Martin and Luc. The show will take place in several rooms of the studio (control room, live room, voice booth) for a totally immersive rendering. This 1st Live on our Twitch channel will be with a special guest: DR.FINK, keyboardist of Prince and The Revolution. Our partner, Cherry Audio also participates to offer you plugins to level up your music production! In case you couldn’t watch the live, here is the replay: Dr. Fink Live performance on Beat Clinic Twitch
The subjects of the first PluginsMasters’ Live Twitch
• Creating a song with Dr. FINK and the virtual synths of Cherry Audio
• Choice and placement of microphones and bass amp recording in the studio
• Keyboard and bass mixing
• Reamplification with IK Multimedia
The winners of Beat Clinic show receive FREE plugins
Every Thursdayat 9 p.m CET Europe, you can follow and take part of the show with the PluginsMasters team live for Beat Clinic, our 2-hour-behind-the-scenes show on studio-production, with renowned artists, audio brands and products to be won each week.
PluginsMasters was founded in a recording studio in 2020 by a french-american team of sound engineers, instructors, and musicians. Our goal is to provide training in music production, for beatmakers, musicians, recording studios, DJs, producers, film composers, and anyone who need the best plugins, sample packs, loops, and music courses to get their musical productions to the next level.
Let us introduce you Mickey Mike
He’s a character you will see in our video tutorials (and let’s be honest, he has a temper…). Leroy our sound engineer, and Mikey Mike work together on videos. They teach you several features of the audio plugins we sell, and give you some tricks on how to use them.
So stay tuned, to meet him soon!
What do we do at PluginsMasters?
At the end of the day, we are producers and technicians that rely on our plugins to perform professional tasks. That allows us to be creative, and innovative. To help us reach our goals as beatmakers, recording, mixing, and mastering engineers. To keep up with the latest music trends. Since we create music every day, we know how important it is to use the right tools in music production.
Our concept is to develop a complete website where you can find:
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Do you know Avid Pro Tools? Nope ? Really ? Well it’s not too late to catch up on that!
Pro Tools software, developed in the late 80s by AVID Technology (formerly Digidesign) is a digital audio workstation (DAW), used by most audio professionals, whether in the recording and mixing studio , or in audiovisual post production. One of the first albums to be recorded, edited and mixed entirely on Pro Tools was Summer in Paradise by the BeachBoys in 1992.
Pro Tools is a family of software offering both a professional tool using DSP cards and different hardware interfaces, and lighter versions more accessible to the general public, such as the Mbox (the calculations are then made internally by the processor (CPU ) from the computer).
AVID has also developed the video editing side of the Pro Tools software: Avid Media Composer, also an essential reference in the audiovisual field.
Like a baker with his flour, you will have to use Pro Tools at least once during your career as a sound engineer, not only because it is essential, but also for the diversity of its functionalities, which offer comfort on our workflow.
Moreover, if you want to be a real pro, it is very useful to create Pro Tools templates, they will allow you to make, for example, your recording sessions efficient and organized, without wasting time.
Do you want to acquire or just test Pro Tools? There are several versions of the software, the perpetual license, if you are sure you want to start using the software, or the annual subscription licenses, if you only need the software for a specific period of time, if you work on a collaborative project for example.
Have you ever wondered how the idea of creating a voice corrector came about?
Well, during a meal with friends!
Andy Hildebrand, an American engineer, developed during his career a tool to analyze seismic data.
Once retired, during a dinner with friends around the year 1996, his wife, who loves to sing, puts forward the idea that it would be incredible if a tool could make it possible to sing more just for her and her friends.
The idea was born. Andy Hildebrand takes it into his head to transform his seismic analysis software to create the first voice corrector.
A seismologist who is revolutionizing the music industry. Incredible isn’t it?
Antares AutoTunes is therefore historically the first vocal corrector that helps to sing in tune.
Like any new innovation, AutoTunes does not escape its own drift, its use sometimes pushed to the extreme gave birth to the Auto-Tune effect (often confused with the vocoder for that matter).
Adjusted to the extreme, the software makes the voice artificial and metallic. Practice popularized by Cher and rapper T-Pain, and also Kanye West in the 2000s.
Whatever you think, Auto-Tune revolutionized the music industry by giving the ability to sing in tune to all artists around the world.
But few use it in the studio as it should. Because it is not enough to launch the software for a pan voice to suddenly become that of Celine Dion!
The sound engineer must know the key on which you will sing and adjust the software according to this, generally using an instrument that he has available in his studio (guitar, piano).
Nowadays, Auto-Tune is everywhere, some have made it their trademark like Drake or Travis Scott and use it as an instrument in its own right. That’s lit!
Every year since 2019, we’ve been going to the NAMM Show (National Association of Music Merchants) 4-day convention in Anaheim, CA. This huge and unmissable music industry event (+200,000 people per session) did not take place in 2021, due to COVID.
And the 2022 edition has been postponed to June instead of January originally.
As a plugin and software distributor, it is essential for us to participate in this type of event, since we discover all the new audio practices and technologies there, and many meetings between professionals are organized.
So we went to Anaheim.
Were present from the team: – Leroy Chambers, sound engineer, music production and mixing trainer and CEO of PluginMasters – Anne Laure Gautherot, studio manager, training coordinator and COO of PluginMasters – Luc Loncelle, sound engineer, music production trainer and Tech Specialist for PluginMasters – Anaka, our photographer, to whom we owe it to the superb photos that you find in this article.
Leroy Chambers with the team of AntaresLeroy & Anne Laure with the team of KiloheartsLeroy Chambers with the team of Slate Digital
This was an opportunity for us to perpetuate our partnerships and of course to negotiate new ones. As for example, we met with the teams of Antares, Kilohearts, Slate Digital, Soundtoys, Polyverse, Avid.. and a lot more partners that spent time with us demonstrate their latests products.
Some of our audio plugins partners regularly present at NAMM include: AVID, Steinberg, Antares, IK Multimedia, Audio-Technica, Native Instruments, Arturia, UAD, Soundtoys, Fabfilter, Joué, Soultones, Music Marketing…and many more to come !
Leroy & Anne Laure with the team of PolyverseProduct demonstration from SoundtoysLeroy at the AVID Booth
This year, several sound behemoths were not present on the stands, but we have no doubt that given the success of this reduced edition, they will be there for the April 2023 edition, at least we hope so!
On the evening and night of June 8, 2022, the team of PluginsMasters was at East-West studios in Los Angeles doing various art projects, with our sound engineers and trainers Leroy and Luc handling the sound, and Anaka doing the photography and videos.
So I suggest you a little visit….
For the record, East-West Studio, located on Hollywood Boulevard in L.A, is where the biggest stars came to record: Micheal Jackson, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Justin Timberlake, U2, Iggy Pop, Muse, The Rolling Stones, or more recently, Travis Scott and Coldplay.
There are a total of 5 studios in the complex, all intended to produce established artists. We booked Studio One, which was the birthplace of Michael Jackson’s Thriller album, among other things!
What were we doing in East-West? Well we recorded, of course!
First, to get the ball rolling, we recorded a new track from up-and-coming r’n’b artist from Los Angeles, Akta The equipment used for recording is as follows: Telefunken ELA-M 251 for voice, Custom 80 Channel Neve 8078 console, Teletronix LA-2A.
To respect the quality of the material on which we started the project, we will perform the analog mixing of the title when we return to our studio, Shaman Studio, at the beginning of July.
Then, we continued with the production of two videos on beatmaking and sound synthesis (we are a training center after all!) with our plugins partners Blue Cat Audio and Martinic, whose products you can find on the website.
And finally, after dark, we recorded Californian pianist Dave Lafferty, with a full setup of AEA Ribbon Mics and preamps, since the brand’s creator, Wes Dooley, (whom we had met at NAMM a few days before ) was with us in the studio!
We hope you enjoyed this little foray into one of the most famous studios in the world! Come and see us in the studio or in music production training so that we can tell you more about this experience!
