Musicians can be a difficult bunch of people to buy gifts for. After all, music itself is a highly subjective thing, so it should come as no surprise that musicians can be very selective about the musical instruments and accessories they use. I’ve tried to curate a list of instruments and accessories that cover a [ Continue ... ]
As an electronic musician, I always find it difficult to convey to a live audience what I’m actually doing behind my army of knobs and faders onstage. I mean, most people can relate the action of strumming a guitar to the sound that a guitar makes. There is an immediate and obvious connection between the [ Continue ... ]
Often times, I feel that electronic music can feel a bit too rigid. One of the ways that I combat that robotic feel is by introducing tiny bits of imperfections in my programming. For example, most delay/echo plugins allow you to set the time between the delays in two ways, either synced notes (say, every [ Continue ... ]
Looks like Korg is running a couple of nice rebates for this holiday season (Expires Dec.31, 2011).View the rebates here. Get a $20 rebate when you buy a Korg Monotron. Amazon and Zzounds carry the Monotron for $59.99 (both with Free Shipping), which brings your price down to $39.99. This popular little beast makes for [ Continue ... ]
Back in 1998 or so, I started a hobby that filled most of my free time: I learned how to "mix", that is, I learned to DJ. The music I spun was mostly Chicago House Music and "New Wave" (as it was called, these days it is now referred to as Industrial, EBM, or synthpop). [ Continue ... ]
Here is a five part series of tutorials for CoreMIDI app developers looking to get started with MIDI programming on iOS devices. The author (developer of the Little MIDI Machine app) has gone into great detail explaining the conceptual overview of MIDI development and best-practices relating to CoreMIDI for iOS. So far, only three parts [ Continue ... ]
Sometimes it’s the small things in life that put a smile on someone’s face. Download or print this page of free compliments and spread some happiness. Here’s how: Step 1 Download this PDF and print it out (Right Click and select “Save Link As…”) Step 2 Cut each vertical tab along the bottom (light grey [ Continue ... ]
A couple mixes that I made back in 1990, enjoy… Download Mix 1 ARTIST TITLE YEAR Shona Laing Soviet Snow 1987 Experimental Products Glowing In The Dark 1984 Book of Love Boy 1985 Moev Crucify Me 1989 Front 242 Masterhit 1987 Front 242 No Shuffle 1987 Pankow Sickness Takin’ Over 1988 Secession Sneakyville 1987 Revolting [ Continue ... ]
(originally posted 2003) The year 2003 marked the 20th anniversary of the MIDI protocol that has become ubiquitous in the world of synthesizers, sequencers, and the like. As a corollary, it also marks the twenty year anniversary of the MIDI cable. The standard five pin din MIDI cable has served many a musician connecting simple [ Continue ... ]
What: The goal of this article is to explain the naming conventions used by CoreMIDI to reference the different components of a MIDI device. Who: This article will interest anyone developing MIDI apps for either Mac OS X, or iOS (iPhone, iPad). Explanation: The heart of CoreMIDI’s funcionality is encompassed in MIDIServices.h (Apple’s MIDI Services [ Continue ... ]
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