Jonathan Hedrén Designer, developer, photographer and musician
I’ve been a happy Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 owner for a couple of months. It is running Windows Mobile 6.1 (with all it’s pro’s and con’s). Windows Mobile comes packed with a lot of useful apps but it is missing a useful dictaphone app. A dictaphone is very useful to record guitar riffs and musical ideas in general, so I went on a hunt for one on the Internet.
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Today I stumbled upon a great freeware VST-plugin: Preamp Emulator. It is basically a tube preamp emulator that creates that warm and rich sound that you expect from a tube amplifier. I was very impressed with what this little plugin accomplished and will probably use it a lot in my projects.
Go to the developers web site to download and try it out.
I recently bought Cubase 4 Essential. As I’ve been running both Cubase LE and Cubase SX 3 before I got quite confused when I only got one single stereo output from ezDrummer when loaded as a VST instrument. A single stereo output is very limiting when working with drums and the internal mixer in ezDrummer is also quite limited. So I started to scratch my head, thinking that it maybe was a limitation in Essential. That would had been strange though, as even the smallest guy in the Cubase family, LE, has support for multiple outputs for VST’s.
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