RIP Project 5

Cakewalk has announced that they’re discontinuing Project 5, which is the program I use to write and sequence my music. Which is fairly disappointing since there really isn’t another host that is as good as P5 is at MIDI. It has a piano-roll style MIDI clip editor in which you can add notes, move them, shorten and [...]

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A Few Things….

Had two gigs this weekend; a Players gig and a wedding gig with a band I’ve never played with before. Both were fun and went relatively well. I recorded the Players gig with Sonar (see below) and my laptop, but I haven’t looked at it yet to see if it’s useable. Sooner or later I [...]

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A Few Updates

Battery 3… complained to tech support about it having been a month since I ordered it, and they sent out another one. Got it in, I think, 5 days. Man, was it worth the wait. Sounds great, huge library full of great kits. Highly recommend. Also, finally paid for the ‘technology upgrade’ to Lounge Lizard [...]

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Various updates.

Well, the Players band had a busy day yesterday… we played the main stage at artscape 2007 (pics here) in Baltimore, opening for the Isley Brothers, and then rocked on over to Annapolis to open for the Pietasters at the Whiskey. There may even be quicktime movies in the offing at some point if Angie (who [...]

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Remix

Remixed and finished that tune… First Street. I added a trombone solo (big surprise there, huh?). Mixed it in Sonar 6 Producer. I’ve been getting a lot of good feedback on this one from the guys on the Cakewalk boards. Check out Thomas Dolby’s Blog. Also, check out my favorite online shop for t-shirts.

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Late at Night

Have I mentioned how much I love the middle of the night? It’s so quiet, and peaceful. My main music program, Cakewalk Project 5, just got a big update, a free one. They went from 2.0.1 to 2.5. I had some install issues that I just got worked out tonight and now that I’ve had [...]

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