Author Archives: A. Person

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

Crow Caw gets BFD 2.1

I have used old 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 [...]

Remixing myself…

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 [...]

Some notes on software guitar processors

I’m not much of a guitar player, and the guitar I have is of equal quality. So, can using VST guitar plugins make the proverbial silk purse out of a sow’s ear? Yes and no. Here are some notes about a few demo and freeware versions I’ve used. Your mileage will certainly vary, but at [...]

Google AdWords and the New Marketing

I don’t know. There’s a big part of retro me that really resents the New Marketing. This is where you scramble, lie, cheat, and do whatever’s necessary to drive traffic to your site and sell stuff. Yes, we want to sell tracks and CDs. But I just hate the concept that New Marketing is the [...]

Snapshots from around the studio

Crow Caw Music Works International Headquarters Gimme that comfy country vibe! My camera just gave up the ghost. It had been working perfectly for a long time. I can still view and download photos, just can’t take any more. Oh well! There’s a wealth of interesting detail here (depending on your personal understanding of the [...]

Welcome to the Crow Caw Music Works International Operations Center

This rather forbidding looking entrance is the front door to the CCMW IOC.The loading docks and executive towers are on the other side of the building. As mentioned elsewhere in this site, the hardware components are inexorably being taken over by software. The main production is handled by a big computer named Colossus with lots [...]

New tracks: “Whispers of Doom” and “Robot Monster 3″ – technical details.

Updated 2010 02 22 I’ve just finished “mastering” two new tracks that have been in the laboratory for a few weeks. “Whispers of Doom: is pretty much like everything else I’ve been doing lately. “Robot Monster 3″ is more fun as it uses extensive dialog samples from the 1953 grade-Z science fiction movie “Robot Monster” [...]

NWEAMO festival in San Diego – Oct 2009

Experimental Music Concert at San Diego State University NWEAMO is a cool organization now in its 11th year (as I understand it). Its mission is to maintain the connection between classical music and avant garde and popular. It makes sense the way they explain it. They support performances in Europe, the US and elsewhere as [...]

Moving into the new century…

Well, not quite. As usual, I’m the last person in the world to adopt something new. In this case, I’ve finally bought a laptop. I’ve been wanting to get a portable computer for some time. I’ve been waiting for a decent laptop under $400, but nothing was really suitable. There are Atom powered “netbooks” but [...]

Where’s the new music?!

(June 26) Well, it’s not really “NEW” but I’ve uploaded a nice copy of my Buddha Machine 2.0 remix (info on this page: http://crow-caw.com/40-listen/44-buddha-20-remix/) OK, I can announce that I have at least uploaded something new! It’s a fairly long (7:23) piece from the loops from the second version of the infamous Buddha Machine, generously [...]