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ToneBytes has released Ambient Nature Noise, a virtual instrument for Windows, which adds the sound and atmosphere of alive and lifeless nature to your recordings.

The purpose of the plug-in is to add sounds typically found in the surrounding world. For this goal, Ambient Nature Noise has 21 sound profiles, including the sound of birds, insects, bats, trees and other flora and fauna, and the sounds of lifeless nature such as sound of waterfall and rain, wash, fire crackling and much more other.

Add the sounds of nature to your music with ToneBytes Amient Nature Noise for Windows.

Ambient Nature Noise features

• 3 slots for mixing different noise profiles to produce complex and variable noise environments.
• Embedded equalizer for emphasizing or muting those parts of the noise profile you want.
• 32 factory presets based on 21 noise profiles.
• Built-in preset manager makes it easy to save the settings and quickly access them or share them with other Ambient Nature Noise users.
• VST automation and full MIDI Learning are supported.

The Ambient Nature Noise plug-in for Windows (VST) is available to purchase for $20 USD / 15 EUR.

More information: ToneBytes / Ambient Nature Noise

Sound for Good has announced Take to the Trees, a music compilation in support of Arbor Day’s tree planting efforts.

Electronic Music Artists join forces on Arbor Day 2012 to raise support for trees on our planet by offering more than 4 hours of good music to everyone who donates to a good cause of saving our trees.

In celebration of Arbor Day on April 27th 2012. Sound for Good is giving you a lot of great music for your donation of just $1 USD (or more) to help plant more trees. Download a large collection of wonderful music from various artists with 100% of your donation going to the National Arbor Day foundation to plant trees.

The 20-track album includes tracks by Ian Boddy, Mark Mosher, Jack Hertz, HG Fortune and Inner Dreamer and many more.

More information: Sound for Good

Sound designer Diego Stocco (producer for Spectrasonics) creates dynamic and innovative music experiences.

His music extensively uses unique sounds created specifically for each project through custom built instruments and techniques, allowing him to produce eclectic compositions with sounds never heard before.

Diego recently posted a new musical piece, created on a tree.

In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.

To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. I used two Røde NT6 and a NTG-2 as microphones, combined with a customized stethoscope.

I recorded the tracks live on a Pro Tools LE system. I didn’t use any synthesizer or sampler to create or modify the sounds. All the sounds come from playing the tree, by bowing the twigs, shaking the leaves, playing rhythms on the cortex and so on.

More information: Diego Stocco at Behance (via the sound of music)

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 19th, 2007:

• Anton Corbijn Talks Ian Curtis – Interview with Anton Corbijn, director of Joy Division biopic Control.

Anton Corbijn (photo by Carmen Valino)

• Lost in the Static – Lost in the Static is a simple little game that uses some surprising aspects of the human perceptual system to create a visible world out of animating static.
• Foamee – Foamee is a free service that helps track who you owe beers to (and vice-versa) using the popular messaging service, Twitter.
• CJO – Abstract – Organic agriculture and the global food supply – According to researchers at the University of Michigan, organic farms can produce more than enough food to support the world’s population without converting any additional land to crop production.
• pantone autumn – Chris Glass collected leaves from a single maple tree to create this pantone autumn image.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 29th, 2007:

• Day of the Daleks – A bid to break the world record of the most Daleks in one place.
• Time lapse lunar image – Done in Photoshop.
• Free Spirit Spheres – Suspended Spherical Tree Houses.
• Felt Underwood Typewriter – It took several weeks of non stop sewing to finish. The felt is hand dyed and the details are embroidered.
• Endangered Machinery – Industrial and industrial heritage photography by Haiko Hebig.
• Front Mission 4 Paper Model – Paper model of a character from the Front Mission game series.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 16th, 2007:

• Quiltbert: a Q*bert Quilt – Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist Labs shows off her fantastic Quiltbert, a Q*bert inspired quilt and shows you the steps to make one yourself.
• The Tilt – Trees, wind, sensors, music and the internet. “We transform trees into biosphere-composers”.
• 15 strange early electronic handhelds – I had a BLIP, but the Merlin (not listed) was much more fun!
• Battle of the Bands – Animation of album covers, directed by Ugly Pictures and animated by man vs. magnet. (warning, it’s a bit bloody)