Alchemy Studio News
Last Update 05/09/2011
31/3/2011 New samples in the Free Samples area
I updated a lot of site pages and renewed the menu. Take a look and listen to my ethnic instruments and download my latest MP3.
You can now watch the video of the song "alchemy of the worlds", in which i play more than 14 instruments. A truly masterpiece!! :)
From monday 27 october you can view my latest video "Alchemy of the world". Meanwhile, you can go to Myspace and to listen to the song, in which i play more than 10 instruments, including 5 guitars, an indian sitar, a chinese erhu, 4 flutes,. Listen also to "Nei tuoi silenzi" ("In your silence"), a piece for solo piano.
Visit Myspace to listen to two my new pieces: "Alchemy of the worlds", in which i play more than 10 instruments, including 5 guitars, an indian sitar, a chinese erhu, 4 flutes, and "Nei tuoi silenzi", a piece for solo piano.
10/06/2008 I have got a new preamp: SM PRO AUDIO TB202, with 2 channels.
21/04/2008 I have found an old Dynacord Echocord, a tube tape delay/echo from the '60s. I will use it as a preamp and as soon as i will find some time i will write something about it
04/02/2008 New recordings in the Free Samples page
20/1/2008 The new Alchemy Studio Album - ILLUSIONS is online!!
02/1/2008 I am trying to setup a very basic tutorial for the Creamware / Sonic Core pulsar/Luca/Scope audio card
24/9/2007 Update the MIDIBOX AC Sensorizer page with the construction of a ribbon controller
27/08/2007 A new midibox is born: the AC Sensorizer
25/06/2007 My rendering of the title track of the game Zak McKracken , done with the MIDIBOX SID Synth will appear on the sequel Zak McKracken and the lonely sea monster
13/11/2006 The recording of the new No Direction album has started!
22/3/2006 The commercial library "Soundcell trilogy", developed by Nucleus Soundlab and which utilize some of my original sounds is now available
17/2/2006 Some of my samples, present in the "Free Samples" section of my site, will be included in the commercial library "Soundcell trilogy", developed by Nucleus Soundlab . This library will be available in spring 2006. The corresponding samples are removed from the Fress Samples section
17/2/2006 I began to assemble my new PC: it will mount an ASUS P4C800-e deluxe with a pentium 4 a 3GHz, FSB 800 MHz and 2 GB of corsair ram TWINX at 400 MHz and CL2
9/1/2006 Happy new year! There are a lot of news in my site
Added several songs recorded in 2005
Added a section with simple play-along songs for guitar improvisation
Added several documents in the instruments page
Added a page on the construction of a standalone mp3 reader based on a pentium 1
I invite you to see the updated Photogallery and to a Virtual tour of my home studio!
15/11/2005 The game “Zirconia 2: Battle” classified fourth at the Gamedev.net Four Element IV contest !
24/10/2005 The first pieces from "The game music library" were chosen. Two will be used in “Zirconia 2: Battle”, a 2D shooter; this game will be presented at the 4 Elements contest at www.gamedev.net. The second music will be used in an engine named "Pure Power Tactical"
03/10/2005 New free samples: Thai flute and Thundersheet
20/9/2005 Online my new summer mini-album "ICARO"
27/6/2005 Online a new track from the guitar-master Khaled Abbas
6/6/2005 “THE
GAME MUSIC LIBRARY”
is published: a new project oriented to game programmers, which
offers music themes ready to be inserted into menu / intro / credits
screens.
The MIDIBOX,
Sequencer,
Korg 01RW pages were
updated.
26/4/2005 New hardware: I changed the Yamaha TG33 with the Yamaha TG77. Added a page for the Korg 01 RW and updated the photogallery
22/3/2005 I prepared a little "psychoacustic" test for testing your listenin skills. If you are interested click here!
17/3/2005 Hardware upgrade... from the Korg 03RW to the Korg 01RW!
17/12/2004 Some of my songs realised with Garritan Personal Orchestra will be on-air on an american internet radio dedicated to Personal Orchestra users
13/12/2004 Alchemy Studio partecipates at SAM True strike Contest with the song "Alchemical Initiation", realised with free samples Sam True Strike samlpes and with Garritan Personal Orchestra
24/11/2004 My SID synth and its page were update. I hope to realise soon some new demo!
05/10/2004 New crazy buy of some samples libraries: Dream Zone,Pure Tabla, Prosamples vol.4 - Percussive Loop (from Percussive Adventures)
17/09/2004 New Free Samples: Mighty Hits
30/08/2004 I put online some demos realised for the german sample-maker Realsamples
27/08/2004 The site forum and the new Guestbook are active!. For technical reason indepent drom me, the old guestbook was deleted...
26/08/2004 Added the www.ucapps.de Sequencer construction photogallery
23/08/2004 Two new "classical" songs: Bach's Air on the Fourth String and Pachelbel's Kanon in D Dur. Find them on my Music Page!
22/07/2004 Online some mp3 excerpt from the album of Bonora, recorded and mixed by Alchemy Studio
21/06/2004 New Free Samples: Bell
16/06/2004 New Free Samples: Tibetan Bell
31/05/2004 New hardware: Yamaha TG-33 Vector Synth!
16/05/2004 Yesterday i recorded the band ex-ADA: soon you will listen to some excerpts of their songs!
14/05/2004 Alchemy Studio is one of the winners of the Creamware Demo Contest!
10/05/2004 Updated the "Silent PC" section
16/04/04 The band So Fresh began, at RealSound Studio near Parma, the recordings for their demo, which will be continued here at Alchemy Studio. The songs will be online very soon!
09/04/04 Some preset and several MP3 demo sounds were created for an octaver developed by SpaceF for Creamware platform. Read the thread on PlanetZ Forum
31/03/04 The new Creamware website hai included my profile in the Creamware users page!
22/01/04 Garritan Orchestral Libraries website www.garritan.com has put online a demo realised by me with the use of Garritan Personal Orchestra: at the demo page, you can listen to an original composition of mine, "The Sword of the King", a song in Rhapsody style which fuses distorted guitar, drums, bass and boombastic orchestration!
07/01/04 The new year brings a lot of news: update both in hardware and software, A new production available for download: “Ambienti sonori in 4:48”, update the Silent PC section, some new Free Samples, added a tutorial on Pulsar arpeggiatore Pulsar Arpeg01.
15/10/03 A new review of "Alchemy of Life: Soundtrack A.D.1312". Read it here
06/10/03 The EP "MAZE - Sogni di mezza estate" is available for download!
29/9/03 Stay tuned: in a short time it will be released an EP recorded this summer!
29/9/03 Hardware upgrade at Alchemy Studio! Elka MK55 masterkeyboard, Studio Monitor nEar 05 and Creamware Modular3 + Flexor!
15/9/03 A new set of samples: Crumar Vintage Strings
10/09/2003 Almost all the site is translated in english. Added a song in my "misc song" section (entirely realized with my SID Synth). Added some samples in Free Samples section. Added a new section about the recording sessions with So Fresh, a band here in Parma
4/8/2003 The GIGASAMLPER TUTORIAL is online! 11 lesson to learn how to use Gigasamlper
4/8/2003 In the Free Samples section there are the original Korg MS-20 waveforms, ready to use
8/7/2003 Site is up!!