Author Archives: A. Person

Raised by gypsies because the wolves wouldn’t have ‘im.

What the hell am I doing? Nothing??

September 20, 2011 – 7:36 PM

update 2011/10/22 The good news is that I have a full time job = income again. The bad news for finishing songs is that it’s a full time job. I am not looking the gift horse in the mouth. For one thing I finally was able to afford upsizing my monitor again. As I get [...]

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Spotify and Pandora

July 31, 2011 – 10:45 AM

Update 2011 Nov 18 I still had the free Spotify account. So this is supposed to be the future of streaming music? Well, let’s give it another spin. I sign in and the first thing it wants to do is connect me with Facebook. Besides the fact I quit that service, I can’t understand why [...]

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Scary developments

July 27, 2011 – 7:23 PM

OK, confession time. Probably giving my age away pretty badly; in my rotation of CDs to listen to during my commute, I pulled up my old Talk Talk collection. The embarrassing admission is that I actually sing along to them in the car. So what the hell? I thought. I hooked up a mic on [...]

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“The Producers Conference” notes: San Diego 14 May 2011 stop

May 14, 2011 – 5:44 PM

See the description here This was well worth the nominal $35 admission fee. It’s difficult to get good technical and business information about the music industry so these rare events are very welcome. This seminar struck a great balance between technology and industry. The first two presenters, Matt Piper of Line6 (Reason’s US distributor) and [...]

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Computer music pioneer Max Mathews dies at 84

April 23, 2011 – 9:03 AM

The influence of Max Mathews on all aspects of electronic and digital music since its birth has been enormous. The seminal music programming system Max (originally sold by the now-defunct Opcode Systems was named for him. It has recently been rearchitected to work with Ableton Live as Max4Live. Appreciation of Max Mathews at createdigitalmusic.com

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NWEAMO festival in San Diego – Feb 2011

February 27, 2011 – 12:00 PM

This year the two-day festival occurred on 25-26 Feb 2011. The performances were once again in the wonderful intimate Smith Recital Hall at San Diego State University. I saw two video cameras recording everything; hopefully these tapes will be made available for those who couldn’t make it in person. As in the previous years, the [...]

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Review of the Korg Pandora PX5D effects unit

December 10, 2010 – 8:57 PM

I don’t have a page in this site that this belongs on, so I’m just throwing this post out there for anyone who might be interested. Review of the Korg Pandora PX5D Processor, tuner, phrase trainer and USB interface for electric guitar and bass players. Executive overview Pros: great sound great guitar effects including difficult-to-model [...]

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Life is like that…

November 9, 2010 – 6:46 PM

I had really wanted to release another “on-line album” by the end of 2010, but it doesn’t look like I’m going to make it. I hate to disappoint all the tim p scott fans of the world, but there’s no help for it. Meanwhile, this gives me a chance to consider the whole concept of [...]

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Crow Caw gets BFD 2!

July 21, 2010 – 10:38 AM

We have used various versions of fxpansion’s BFD drum plugin product for a couple of years. Having played drums in a previous life, nothing I programmed ever quite did it for me. BFD is one of those plugins that basically is a sample playback engine with 10s of gigabytes of drum hit and drum loop [...]

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Remixing myself…

June 6, 2010 – 10:45 AM

For some reason I’ve been resurrecting ancient song data files and seeing if I can still recreate them. I started with the data from Jack of Shadows, which was essentially based on MIDI files run through the Roland SC-88 and the Emu Proformance+. The sequencer used was “Metro” which was Macintosh only. For this track [...]

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