Is Timbaland a lamer?

Timbaland plagiarism controversy - See link here

In January 2007, several news sources reported that Timbaland (Timothy Z. Mosley) was alleged to have plagiarized several elements (both motifs and samples) in the song "Do It" on the 2006 album Loose by Nelly Furtado without giving credit or compensation.[1][2][3] The song itself was released as the fifth North American single from Loose on July 24, 2007.

The claimed original track, entitled "Acidjazzed Evening", is a chiptune-style 4-channel Amiga module composed by Finnish demoscener Janne Suni (a.k.a. Tempest). [4] The song won first place in the Oldskool Music competition at Assembly 2000, a demoparty held in Helsinki, Finland in the year 2000. [5] According to Scene.org, the song was uploaded to their servers the same year, long before the release of the song by Furtado. The song was later remixed (with Suni's permission) by Norwegian Glenn Rune Gallefoss (a.k.a. GRG) for the Commodore 64 in SID format - this is the version which was later allegedly sampled for "Do It". It was added to the High Voltage SID Collection on December 21, 2002.[6]

A video which claims to show proof of the theft was posted to YouTube on January 12, 2007.[7] Another video was posted to YouTube on January 14, 2007, claiming Timbaland also stole the tune a year earlier for the ringtone Block Party, one of several that were sold in the United States in 2005.[8]

On April 1, the track for "Do It" (without vocals) was used as theme music for the 2007 Juno Awards broadcast, which Furtado hosted. The track was played during the show's opening and before commercial breaks. The controversial samples could be clearly heard throughout.

Source: Wikipedia

Cockos Reaplug VST FX Suite (BMZ Awards 2007)

Want to use some of the comprehensive FX plug-ins that REAPER provides, but stuck in another host? Haven't made the switch yet? Fear not -- you can download ReaPlugs, a package of FX that includes many of the plug-ins that come with REAPER, for free!

Download: ReaPlugs VST v1.1 (last updated December 4 2007)

ReaComp
Ultra-configurable compressor
Soft knee support
Sidechain filters, sidechain inputs
Feedback compression mode
Program dependent auto-release mode
Variable RMS size
Oversampling antialias modes (with optional limiting)
Optional make-up gain
Optional lookahead
Wet/dry mix
Low CPU use
Useful metering


ReaXcomp
Unlimited band compressor
Great metering per band
Fantastic sounding filters
Solo current band mode
Tons of controls per band (ratio, threshold, knee, attack, release, makeup, program dependent release, feedback detector, RMS size)
Adjusting bands in graph is easy (modifiers to change ratio, gain, etc).


ReaDelay
Multi-tap delay, no practical limit on tap count
Up to 10 second delay per tap
Tap lengths can be in time (s/ms) or quarter notes
Feedback, LPF/HPF, resolution reduction per tap
Stereo width per tap
Volume/pan per tap


ReaEQ
Unlimited band IIR based equalizer
Support for any number of many types of filters (shelfs, bands, LPF, HPF, notch, bandpass, allpass)
Frequency response and phase response display
Display of approximate note+octave for frequencies
Per-band bypass control
Full-view of graph optional for precise editing
Mouse modifiers/mousewheel usable for editing bandwidth of points in graph


ReaFIR
FFT based dynamics processor (requires host plug-in delay compensation)
Supports FFT sizes of 128-32768.
Useful in/out frequency response display
Supports defining response curves both using any number of points, or freehand mouse
EQ - can be used as a linear phase mastering EQ, or as a super-effective surgical EQ
Compressor - can compress at a fixed ratio with a per-band threshold
Gate - can gate with per-band threshold
Subtract - can build noise profiles and subtract noise from the signal


ReaGate
Ultra-configurable gate
Sidechain filters, sidechain input
Lookahead for pre-open
Hold control
Hysteresis control
Variable RMS size
Can send MIDI events on gate open/close
Wet/dry mix, noise mix (can add noise when gate is open)


ReaStream
Supports streaming from host to host of audio and/or MIDI over a LAN segment
Supports streaming from different host software on each end
Supports UDP broadcast for streaming one to many (if local network can keep up)


Copyright (C) 2006-2007, Cockos Incorporated
VST PlugIn Technology by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH


General features of ReaPlugs:
Support for Windows 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista, WINE.
Fast, usable UIs with good metering
Low CPU and RAM use
Highly configurable
No copy protection
No installation required (portable!)
Freely usable
Tour of the FX of ReaPlugs:

Free MP3 search engines

Thanks to le-gouter.com (in French)three + one fantastic MP3 search engines.

1. Beemp3
2. Hypem
3. Elbow
4. Tyoogle

Don't forget that tThese engines can be very useful to find free loops of beats and samples (voices, instruments, acappella)

BONUS (Update)
http://skreemr.com/
Update 2:
http://www.songza.com/

Mu.Lab Free Audio and Midi Sequencer!!! (BMZ Awards 2007)

MU.LAB is a state of the art, ultra-light music application, designed to compose & perform music of different styles and flavors.

MU.LAB does not have a complex feature set, in which you can get lost.

At the contrary, MU.LAB is an easy yet rock-solid musical tool.

It's our intention to extent MU.LAB's functionalities in the future, but never by compromising on easiness or quality.

Regularly visit mutools.com to check for new and improved versions of MU.LAB! And for other MUTOOLS products!

MU.LAB's core feature set:

* Audio Recording & Playback
* MIDI Recording & Playback
* Flexible Composition & Sequence Editing
* Supports Audio and MIDI VST Plugins
* Powerful Audio and MIDI Plugin Routing (up to 100% modular if you want)
* Integrated MuSynth: Powerful Modular Sound Engine
* Integrated MUX: Powerful Modular Audio/MIDI Effect Engine
* Integrated Audio Effects:
o MuVerb: Very Nice Sounding Reverb
o Stereo Echo: Very Versatile Stereo Echo
o Multi Mode Filter: Very Versatile Audio Filter
o And many more MUX patches!
* Audio Engine using 32 bit floats, all usable samplerates
* Sample Accurate Sequencing
* Multi Undo/Redo
* Available for OSX (Universal Binary) and Windows

For a more detailed introduction, click here.

MU.LAB comes in 2 flavors: MU.LAB Free and MU.LAB Unlimited.

MU.LAB Free is a light version of MU.LAB Unlimited and is free to everyone. The only limit is an 8 track limit. But be sure: a creative soul can do A LOT with 8 tracks!

MU.LAB Unlimited at the other hand supports an unlimited number of tracks for more extensive musical productions!

Download link here

Update of UltraMixer Free

UltraMixer has been updated to version 2.1.3.

+new: synchronisation of filearchive groups (checks if there are new or missing file on hard disk)
+new: support of multiple sound devices with equal names
+new: support of individual selection of rows in filearchive table
+new: additional function in context menu in filearchive table "load into player1/2"
+new: lock filearchive tree (disable drag'n'drop)
+new: filearchive tree drag'n'drop: visualize drag over location
+new: Mixing-Session: extended csv export / custom columns
+new: remove any shortcut
+new: performance improvements in Filearchive
+new: Mac: Apple+left click support for context menus (right click replacement)
+new: right click context menu for copy&paste on text fields
+new: edit id3-tags of multiple files or complete groups
+new: led support for Behringer BCD3000
+new: highlight playing tracks in filearchive
+new: support for filenames with non ASCII letters (e.g. cyrillic file names)
+new: Mac: added AltiVec support for PPC plattforms
#changed: optimized levels (higher accuracy)
#changed: pitch/time switch
#changed: direct play button behaviour
-fixed: Drag'n'Drop issues in tree (UltraMixer now prevents drag'n'drop of a main group in a sub group)
-fixed: shortcuts not disabled when searching tracks (e.g.shift+M for a big "M" triggers mute on Player 2!)
-fixed: Behringer BCD2000/3000: wrong eq button order and led order
-fixed: Levels display only mono values
-fixed: Time stretching speed does not correspond to the correct speed percentage
-fixed: crash on newer flac files

Free beatport sync by Traktor: A Dj tool like iTunes!

Beaport Sync is a free, DJ-friendly music player / librarian / mixing app for Windows and Mac. On its surface, it looks like a hook for online music store Beatport and a beginner-friendly DJ mixer (two tracks, auto tempo detection and time stretching, pitch control) — and it is that.

But aside from the ability to mix and cross-fade, Beatport Sync has some features Apple’s iTunes lacks, which makes it potentially worth a download for just about anyone. First, it has real file format support: MP3 / MP4 / AAC / WMA / WAV / AIFF / FLAC / OGG (plus audio CDs, of course). WMA, FLAC, and OGG are all missing in iTunes. Second, it has advanced meta-data editing and file browsing, making it useful for organizing your music collection. What I really like: not only can you backup your library to external media, but you can browse external media, too. It’s a reminder that iTunes remains pretty primitive for listening and organization — it’s added some decent features, but not so much for the desktop listening experience.

Those aren’t a huge deal on Windows or even Linux with various reliable alternative music players, but they’re big news on the iTunes-dominated Mac. Native Instruments tells CDM that they do expect even their die-hard Traktor users may want Beatport Sync as an organizing tool or basic player.

As far as DJ-style features, this player is pretty decent for a freebie:

* Two-deck mixer with manual/automatic crossfader

* Pitch control

* Time-stretching and tempo detection, for smooth crossfades even if you don’t know what you’re doing (or you’re, say, folding laundry or cleaning your studio and want the software to DJ for you — it happens)

* Rip and burn CDs

* Access external devices for browsing and backup
* iTunes library integration (no playback support for DRMed tracks, though meta-data will appear)

DOWNLOAD HERE

Safari Beta 3 is now available for windows

Watch the demo here (apple mov format)

Download here

Dogmazik

Free music for everybody (in French only)

And if the big pirate was... google!

Google Hacks is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google's search and map services. For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map, search for music, search for books, and perform many other specific kinds of searches. You can also use this program to use google as a proxy.

The name should not imply the way it should be used.

Hacks is meant as this definition. "A Hack is a modification of a program or device to give the user access to features otherwise were unavailable to them. " Taken from Wikipedia.

Please do not use this program for illegal uses.

I am not sure that big companies and majors will appreciate and continue to afford in Adsense!