Category Archives: Info for musicians

“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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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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Some notes on software guitar processors

June 5, 2010 – 6:45 AM

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 [...]

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Google AdWords and the New Marketing

May 15, 2010 – 3:46 PM

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 [...]

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A new and excellent site for musicians: bandcamp.com

February 15, 2009 – 1:24 PM

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 [...]

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