I feel really blessed to have this wonderful event just a few miles from my house. Sometimes I think it’s a pity that more people from the community don’t attend. This year there is a very nice article, mainly based on an interview (with a handy description of the festival schedule) with festival adjuvant Dr Joseph [...]
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 [...]
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
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. This model appears to be discontinued already (2012) but the replacement (the Pandora Mini) looks excellent and sells for only USD100. Review of the Korg Pandora PX5D Processor, tuner, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Update stardate 4 Sept 2009 I’m liking this site more and more. If nothing else, their FAQ is the most fun to read of any site. They obviously understand “Web gruettiquette” and “independent music” well. The little player tool that embeds into wordpress stuff doesn’t look so hot. I went back to their site to [...]
