Results for Toontrack

Last week the sample remix contest deadline passed and all 58 contestants have had a week to check out the entries and submit their top 5 favorites.

The results are in and it’s time to distribute the prizes, kindly offered by our friends at Time+Space.

First place goes to Francis Red for the track “Tropology”, a quality production with a catchy melody. This was a clear win, with both the highest amount of votes and points, as well as the most #1 votes.

In second place is Noizefield with “Level Up”, demonstrating some next level sample processing skills.

Third place winner is “Alien Love” by SatYatunes, a beautiful downtempo atmospheric piece.

The 4th winner – picked by random.org – is Robert Fletcher with his entry Welcome Laughter.

Congratulations to the winners! It was a pretty close race for the top 10, which included the tracks by Marcin Chicy, Solidtrax, König, DavidF, Sayonara Gaia, Alex Nekita, Carbone and Crystal Craft.

All winners will soon receive details on how to get one of the available prizes: Toontrack’s Superior Drummer + 1 SDX expansion, a bundle of iZotope Ozone 5, Stutter Edit & Trash 2, UVI’s Vintage Legends, and Synthogy Ivory Pianos II Grand Pianos.

A big thank you to everybody who took part in the contest, hope to see you again next time!

Toontrack Music has announced that this May will see another installment of the company’s popular campaign month Songwriters Month: a month filled to the brim with new sounds, tools and inspiration.

Already now, users can participate by submitting their own songs for a chance to be published on the site.

“Songwriting is at the heart of what our users do. We think a great way of showing the multitude of fantastic music that is created with our tools is to have a customer-generated music player. This is also a chance for our users to expose their music to thousands and thousands of people”, said Mattias Eklund, Toontrack’s co-founder and Head of Sound Design.

Songwriters Month terms for participation

• Send material to sw2013@toontrack.com
• Song must be written by you or your band/co-writer(s)
• Include song title in filename
• Song must be in MP3 format
• Include photo or artwork
• Email can not be larger than 7 MB

Further information/disclaimer will be available with auto-reply upon participation.

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Time+Space has announced that a purchase of EZmix 2 comes with a free preset pack, this weekend only.

Whether you´re mixing drums, guitar, bass, piano, percussion or vocals Toontrack´s EZmix 2 makes the process quick and easy with great sounding results.

What´s more, thanks to the ever-expanding choice of preset packs created by a range of top producers, you can tailor the plugin to suit your own style of music.

Starting today and ending Tuesday at 9am (GMT), when you buy the EZmix 2 download, you´ll also receive a serial number that enables you to download any preset pack of your choice completely free!

Full details and instructions are given in the email that is sent to you upon purchase of EZmix 2.

More information: Time+Space

Toontrack Music has announced the release of the Peter Henderson EZmix Pack, a new expansion for the EZmix 2 multi-effect mix tool for Windows and Mac.

The pack comes with custom settings designed by Peter Henderson, who started his career training exclusively with engineer legend Geoff Emerick (The Beatles) at the AIR studios in London, worked alongside producer Sir George Martin for numerous sessions, recorded multiple million-selling albums, won a Grammy for Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” and managed to sustain a busy career ever since the early 1970s.

“I tried to create an EZmix Pack that reflects my experience having worked for many years in different studios throughout the world”, Peter says. And that pretty much sums up what this pack comes loaded with: 30 plus years of experience bottled in the shape of easy accessible presets that load Peter’s signature signal chains for a multitude of mix needs. Bass, guitar, lead vocals, strings, background vocals, drums – you name it.

The EZmix Pack costs $49 USD / 39 EUR.

More information: Toontrack / Peter Henderson EZmix Pack

Toontrack Music has announced the release of Funk EZkeys MIDI, a new MIDI expansion for the EZkeys piano software.

The classic funk-inspired chord progressions, the hard-driving bass lines and the persistent hooks combined with the creative songwriting tools in EZkeys make this pack a true well of inspiration. You can start from a fundamental baseline, riff or progression and end up with a classic funk tune, a beat driven 12 bar blues or a soulful ballad.

Funk EZkeys MIDI pack features

• An extensive collection of chord progressions and playing styles for funk inspired music.
• Full song structure blocks.
• A dedicated section for riffs.
• Covering straight/swing in 4/4.
• Played by professional session pianist.

The MIDI pack costs $29 USD / 25 EUR.

More information: Toontrack / Funk EZkeys MIDI

Toontrack has introduced the Drums Toolbox EZmix Pack, a new expansion for their widely popular multi-effect mix tool EZmix 2.

The Drums Toolbox EZmix Pack features a wide variety of one-click settings specifically tailored to enhance drum recordings of any type, all designed by a dream team of engineers: Randy Staub (Metallica, Alice in Chains), Neil Dorfsman (Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan), Pelle Henricsson (Refused) and the sound design team at Toontrack.

Be it straight out of your favorite sampler, a studio multitrack recording or right off an on-stage live performance, the Drums Toolbox EZmix Pack will offer complex chains and various amounts of EQ, compression, transient shaping and tape simulation to take your drum audio to the next level. You will find inserts dedicated to each kit piece as well as aux and group bus settings for the entire drum mix. Time to make drums that rock – and pop in your mix!

The Drums Toolbox EZmix Pack costs $49 USD / 39 EUR.

More information: Toontrack / Drums Toolbox EZmix Pack