Roumers started flying around about Noel Gallagher making his return to music with a collaboration with Kasabian earlier this week, now Johnny Borrell has hinted at being interested in having Noel produce an album in the future.
Tom meighn, Kasabians voice, has told the news of the world that he would definitely consider working with Noel in the future. Sooner than that though it has been confirmed that he will be performing on the band’s UK arena tour. Tom spoke to the News of the world, “Noel will be calling us up nearer the time for sure saying, ‘Lads, I’m going to come perform with you on tour, He’s a performing machine, and loves playing live so he jumps at the opportunity whenever he can join us.”
On the studio side of things Razorlight have suggested that the ex Oasis man should get involved with producing their fourth album that is intended to be a follow up to the 2008 record “Slipway Fires”. “Maybe we should get Noel to produce the new Razorlight album. We’re looking for a producer,” bassist Carl Damelo told The Mirror. “We need some northern cred!” he added.
Fingers crossed that Noel aims for a juicy Kasabian collaboration, working wihth Razorlight however? We cant see it.
UK games developers Rockstar ( famous for Grand Theft Auto series)have produced a platform/sequencer for producing tunes on the PSP. The “Beaterator” has been endorsed by US hip-hop producer Timbaland (watch his review here) who has contributed to providing a library of around 1600 samples. The Sequencer tool also has capabilities to accept any new samples you want to import yourself via memory stick.
The audio engine bounces along at 16 word-length, 22kHz sample rate and includes a mixer with eight stereo tracks, these can be looped wit a built in synth or/and a sequencer pattern. because each pattern can include up to eight sample channels you can create up to a maximum 64 samples in each tune. Extra techy info includes each mixer accommodating up to two insert effects including compression, EQ and Multi-mode Filters along with others soon to be announced. The Beaterator comes with a virtual-analogue synth (mono) with three oscillators. Each oscillator allows you to move and bend the noises with its sinewave anything up to as much as 10 percent. You can see the live demo here. The sequencer also has built in multi-mode filters and two assignable LFO’s (low frequency oscillators). On top of the standard song arrangement (which you’ll probably use most of the time) there is a session mode for playback of your loops or you can just wing it live an make it up as you go along! Glow sticks and whistles at the ready! Buying some external speakers are a must surely!
The Beaterator is due to come out in the US at the end of September (29th) at around $40, an in the UK a month later on October for £30. The developers have announced they intend to release a version of the Beaterator for the AppleiPhone, which has around twice the processing power of the PSP, for the autumn. With some expansion on the synth concept with the touch screen hopefully.
