Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Earlier this week I finished wiring up my bedroom studio and I'm now able to record from my external hardware. After I was done, I realized my first mistake. All of my external gear is routed into a Behringer mixer and the mixer outputs to the line-in on my PC ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
I've been deeply involved with my new Korg ER-1 drum machine. I bought a Behringer Xenyx 1202FX mixer to plug all my toys together and I've been having a great time learning how to program the Korg ER-1. Without a sequencer, it's difficult to put together an actual song, but ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The Korg EA-1 arrived first today. Overall the cosmetic condition was good, but a few of the pots were glitchy and the selection jog wheel skipped around. That's no good. One of the glitchy pots was the main volume knob. It would cut out one of the voices intermittently. Also ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
Tomorrow my ER-1 and EA-1 synthesizers arrive. I would have had them today but, it's MLK's Birthday so no deliveries. It's not been so bad waiting as I had my Casio CZ-101 to play with.
Yeah, I got it after all. It was totally worth the wait. I met up ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Today I went to the thrift shop to find a tape deck so I could start digitizing my shoe box full of demo tapes. I lucked out and found a pristine Technics deck and it sounds great. I have roughly 30-40 tapes with various musical pieces. Well they were attempts ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Just a few steps closer to a full production studio. I purchased a Korg ER-1 and Korg EA-1. These two stand alone machines fill the same role as a Roland TR-808/909/606 and the Roland TB-303. Of course they aren't REALLY analog and nothing can really replace the Roland units, but ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Yesterday I bought Mario Kart Wii. Needless to say, we've been racing each other and trying to unlock characters and tracks ever since. I love the "Mushroom Kingdom" universe so much that I've decided to try to collect as many games featuring Mario and friends on as many systems as ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
I haven't been posting to this blog and I'm really disappointed about that. But you know what? That's cool. That's the past. I need to get back in the habit (actually there are more than a few habits I need to cultivate) and I will try to post something everyday ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
First, watch a bit of this:
Then watch this:
Repeat with any other Songsmith videos you can find. You're welcome.
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
These last couple days, I've been talking (both via email and voice) with my best friend Andy. He lives in LA. For those that don't know, we've known each other since 3rd grade and got in to all sorts of hyjinks through out junior and senior high school. We also ...
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