update 2012/05/11 Well, as the grave draws ever nearer I am stuck in an obsessive-compulsive loop working on a couple of new pieces. Besides Life As Usual, the main thing delaying progress on these works is my attempts to play parts that are way beyond my musical abilities. But the good thing is that I [...]
update 2012/02/19 Well, that turned out to be a false alarm. I’m back to my version of black metal compositions for the time being. I still reserve the right to do vocals some time in the future. original post: 2011/07/27 OK, confession time. Probably giving my age away pretty badly; in my rotation of CDs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
Silencio draft#5 (about 22:00) Appr. 22:00 long ©2009 tim p scott (click (>) to play) Going through old ideas I I decided to put back my Eno/Budd/Lustmord hat and the result is a new ambient/soundscape piece. It still needs some tweaking but in any case we’ll put up a player with the current draft on [...]
