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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Crow Caw Music Works International Headquarters Gimme that comfy country vibe! There’s a wealth of interesting detail here (depending on your personal understanding of the word “interesting”…) Notice the high quality $20 First Act guitar amplifier you can just see the top of under the desk. I’ve since relocated it a little bit and covered [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
