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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New Music Up At My Soundclick – “Pompeii Worm”

…is up on my Soundclick. The song page is here. Click here to stream lofi, and click here to stream hifi. Lounge Lizard 3, Albino 3. Bionic Delay, Sonitus Compressor, Studioverb, Kjaerhus Classic Master Limiter. Mixed in Sonar 7P (for the automation). Named after this little guy.  With that, the (second) CD is just about [...]

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Testing the New HP Laptop for Recording

So, now that I have the laptop all tricked out, I’ve installed Sonar Producer 7 (x64), which is the recording/mixing application I use, and patched it to the latest build. The purpose? To run the following test: hooking it up to the Motu 828mkii, creating a 16-track 48khz/24bit project, and recording a half hour of [...]

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Odd sort of limbo

…is what I’m in. I’ve looked carefully at my finances and it’s clear that I can’t simply buy new parts and build the new computer (the old one died). I’m going to have to do it slowly and carefully, laying in the tall grass for a part to be available at the lowest possible price, and [...]

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