One Big Game is a charity assembled by game developers to raise money for children’s organizations. Musical games look to figure prominently in the series. Design legend Masaya Matsuura (PaRappa the Rapper, Vib-Ribbon), father of rhythm games and without whom there likely would be no Rock Band or Guitar Hero, has signed. And the first title out, from Zoë Mode, is musical in nature, too, in a game called “Chime.” Chime is an elegantly-designed game and a lovely way to unwind, particularly with Philip Glass’ gorgeous “Brazil” in the track list. (”Brazil” has Glass’ usual musical furniture, but the cut, taken from the Aguas da Amazonia album, is executed by the extraordinary Uakti ensemble and takes on a new set of timbres.) One relevance to Create Digital Music – it’s not a bad way to take a break after a production and/or programming stint. The game is 500 Microsoft Points for Xbox Live, the lion’s share of which goes to children’s charities. Fun as it is, Chime also reveals some of the limitations of musical gameplay; whether or not that’s a fault is really up to the user/gamer. The gameplay is almost a direct homage to Lumines , Tetsuya Mizuguchi ’s puzzle game. As with Lumines, you place interlocking blocks into patterns, with the basic mechanics derived from Tetris . Chime is actually slightly simpler; there’s no color matching involved, only the creation of matching “quads” – areas of the grid 3
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8th February 2010: Mokafix Audio has announced a new series of six distortion stomp-box emulations just a few weeks after the release of its first batch of seven fuzz and distortion effects. These new plug-ins will be a...
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Plug-in developers Voxengo have released a beta version of an update to their excellent SPAN spectral analyser plug-in. You can grab the download here . Reaction to the new version appears to be mixed, but what do you make of it?
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8th February 2010: SPL has released version 1.2 updates for all of its Analog Code and MicroPlugs Plug-ins. Changes: All SPL plug-ins support VST3 now. TDM support for Logic. Several small bug fixes, including MicroP...
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8th February 2010: dRAM-dIGITAL has announced the release of Prodrums 10.6, a new drum sampler plug-in that includes all the features that dRAM-dIGITAL thinks are important yet leaves out all the bells and whistles that...
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8th February 2010: SKnote has announced the release of Rough, the latest addition to the Attitude series of plug-ins. Rough is a filterbank/vocoder. This first version includes four algorithms: Vocoder: a classic 16 ba...
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8th February 2010: Synapse Audio has announced the release of EKS-9, a new special-purpose software synthesizer designed to recreate the sound of analog electronic kickdrum sounds - hence the name EKS (Electronic Kickdr...
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8th February 2010: Tonehammer has announced the releases of Riq Drum for Native Instruments' Kontakt. Tonehammer says: The riq (also spelled riqq or rik) is a type of Arabic hand drum. Riqs are part of a larger family...
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8th February 2010: AuraPlug has announced the release of EddieVsHeaven, the latest addition to the Freetortion series of plug-ins for guitarists. EddieVsHeaven contains a complete guitar rig in a stompbox form. Features...
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8th February 2010: One Small Clue has updated Poise Percussion Sampler to v1.0.15. Changes: Change: If any sample data is orphaned from sample files, Poise will automatically embed the sample data into the project fil...
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