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Music Kit Research

Just links to stuff I’ve looked into recently music kit wise.

Lucifer Plug-in Lucifer Plug-in Review

The BCR 2000

The UC33

Muse Research Receptor Muse Research Receptor – why

AirFX

Dave Smith Instruments

Check out his upcoming developments.. pants!

The new machine drum

Numark Total Control

Ableton as Live Improv Tool

So I’ve got 10 of my songs chopped up into samples and loaded into ableton:

First Live Set

This makes for a really nice live improv tool. I can create mixes on the fly out of my music. The mixes are totally dynamic and never come out the same. I can mix pads from one song with [...]

Construc and I are collaborating on a new project called audio faction. Right now it’s just a good place for us to keep in touch and catalog all the cool stuff we find on the net. Usually we just send each other links and such but I think we both prefer the web log format.

Hopefully [...]

I’m very happy so far with my new controller keyboard. I haven’t really learned all the ins and outs yet but the universal auto-map feature makes it super easy to automate mixes without digging into the keyboard. I used to dedicate about 2 weeks of time to learning a new piece of equipment but this [...]

Online Music Making Resources

Sonic State

Their videos are quite good.

Live Sets

The forums seem pretty active and I found some pretty good resources in there.

Create Digital Music

Cool blog all about creating digital music.

Cycling ‘74

Products for new styles of music and media creation.

Reason Freaks

Comprehensive online reason resources

This is very much what I have been dreaming of having rubycube accomplish. A very slick presentation.

Geeking Out With Music Kit

I love geeking out with musical equipment. Sometimes is hard to drag myself into work as I would much rather be messing around with a new track or learning some new technique. Over the years I have built a small collection of lowfi gear. Lately I have been trying to modernize a bit so that [...]

New Test Tracks

I’ve spent some time cleaning up some test tracks. Right now I’m just trying to figure out how to use some new techniques.

Sweet and Sour

Smeezle on the Eetar

Simple Life – live practice

Did a bunch of stuff around the house this weekend including setting up some of my old studio gear. So far it’s just my Korg Prophecy as a MIDI controller through an old MOTU Pocket Express but hopefully there will be more coming online soon. It just feels good to be recording some of my [...]

GameBoy Sequencing with Alex Empire

I came upon this article in escapist. As well as a great interview from artist Alex Empire (Atari Teenage Riot) the article provides a summary of the various sequencers that are available for the Game Boy.

The main programs mentioned include:

NanoLoop Little Sound DJ

The wikipedia article many other music creation options for the GB.

I love [...]

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