Posted in kit, music on May 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
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
Posted in music on May 14th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in music on April 21st, 2008 No Comments »
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
Posted in music, programming on April 19th, 2008 No Comments »
This is very much what I have been dreaming of having rubycube accomplish. A very slick presentation.
Posted in music on April 16th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in music on April 12th, 2008 No Comments »
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
Posted in music, studio on March 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in music on November 27th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]