Its companion Geogrotesque Stencil offers an unusual and flexible set of headline fonts. With seven weights, Geogrotesque is a great headline family for magazines or annual reports, but will also work in text of intermediate length and point size. Based on a simple basic shape - a rectangle with curved top and bottom - the typeface is pure and regular without becoming bland or mechanical. With Geogrotesque, Eduardo Manso produced one of the most interesting recent sans-serif designs, striking a smart balance between geometry and user-friendliness. Not only is it the year’s most popular squarish sans-serif, it was also the all-around best-selling new font. It was introduced shortly before New Year, and as 2009 took off, so did Geogrotesque.
Read the Champion Script Pro article to learn more about the font’s design principles and features. Its functionality is powered by nifty OpenType programming. With two weights, each loaded with 4,280 glyphs (!), Champion Script probably has the largest number of alternate glyphs ever offered in one script font. Based on the manuscripts of the 18th-century English calligrapher Joseph Champion, it was announced as “the most advanced and powerful script ever made.” It sounds pretentious, but there’s truth in it. The icing on the cake was Champion Script Pro, the year’s most successful formal script font. Sophisticated, original text families such as Beau Sans and Centro became great sellers. please refer to the usage FAQs.This list of last year’s ten most successful typefaces from a variety of genres is based on sales.īased in Athens, Greece, the Parachute foundry joined MyFonts in April 2009 and immediately got the attention of our quality-conscious customers.
For more specific information on using the contents of this library in portfolios, research, publicity, competitions, teaching materials, etc. Many thanks to the artists and engineers who have kindly agreed to provide these files – please follow the links and check out their latest music!Īll downloads from this site are provided free of charge for educational purposes only, and the material contained in them should not be used for any commercial purpose without the express permission of the copyright holders.įor projects hosted on other sites, please refer to their separate conditions of use. This is a continuously expanding resource, so if you want to keep track of the latest uploads please subscribe to my monthly spam-free ‘Small-studio Secrets News’ mailing list – I usually post towards the end of the month. If you have any projects of your own that you’d be willing to post (or link to) here, then do get in touch.
If you’d like to search for projects with specific instruments, track counts, download sizes, or Discussion Zone thread counts, then check out the new beta-version library search page.Īs well as the multitracks hosted directly on this site, I’ve also included links to a few other decent downloads I’ve discovered on other sites.
My dedicated Suggestions For Newbies page. If you’re new to mixing, you can find some beginner-friendly projects on In both cases a preview mix is provided for easy auditioning while browsing through the list.
( Download problems?) In addition to the Full Multitrack packages, there are also many quick-download Edited Excerpt versions (usually featuring the song’s biggest chorus) which provide ‘bite-sized’ mixing assignments well-suited to classroom use. When importing the tracks, just make sure all the files start at exactly the same moment in time within your DAW’s timeline.
For maximum mixdown flexibility, the contributors have made every effort to provide audio ‘raw’, in other words without additional effects or processing (beyond treatments printed during tracking/editing).
All these projects are presented as ZIP archives containing uncompressed WAV files (24-bit or 16-bit resolution and 44.1kHz sample rate). To support readers of my book Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio, as well as music-technology students/educators in general, here’s a list of multitrack projects which can be freely downloaded for mixing practice purposes.