Finishing tracks: Some tips to improve your songwriting productivity Finishing club tracks: Of all the roadblocks musicians run into, I would say that finishing tracks sits at the top of that list (or very near the top). You are working on your favorite producing platform and you’ve got a rocking groove going on a 16 bar loop. You are moving and grooving but you can’t seem to get yourself past this point. Everytime you return to this track to finally get this song done, you end up just spending hour after hour listening to the loop and pondering each sound and component and at the end of the day are no closer to that elusive finished track. If this is you, realize that you are further along than you may think. Don’t wait for inspiration: Perspiration always beats waiting for inspiration. Why? Because energy in motion creates ‘emotion’ and emotion inspires. In other words, allow inspiration to follow a consistent work ethic. Samples vs. If you aren’t an expert on designing your own sounds, this process can take you from inspiration to mental exhaustion. Jason
Reactable mobile Sharpen your sense of time! liveBPM is the tempo monitoring tool for drummers, bands and DJs. It detects music and beats via the microphone and continuously displays the current tempo in beats per minute (BPM). ★★★ What users said about liveBPM ★★★ John Walden, freelance musician and music technology journalist at musicappblog.com:"There are three obvious applications for the app. JonLong:"I used this at my last band practice and wasn't expecting it to work. PocketDrummer82:"I am a professional drummer and I have been looking for something like this for years! Chris Walther:"I have used this about five gigs now and have quit using my previous tempo meter. magrec:"This has been very helpful for recording. thanks!" Dj_Vee:"Really this is one of the best bpm detectors I have ever seen. ★★★ Detailed Description ★★★ This is a tool designed for professional use:- Well-tested beat detection engine guarantees trustworthiness- Can handle most genres.
THE MILKMAID by Johannes Vermeer No signature appears on this work. c. 1658-1660 Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (Vermeer: The Complete Works, New York, 1997) c. 1657-1658 Walter Liedtke (Vermeer: The Complete Paintings , New York, 2008) The closed, plain-weave linen still has its original tacking edges. The ground is a pale brown/gray, containing chalk, lead white, and umber. A red lake glaze is used as an underpaint in the flesh color of the maid's right hand. * Johannes Vermeer (exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis - Washington and The Hague, 1995, edited by Arthur Wheelock) (?) Amsterdam 1872 Katalogus der tentoonstelling van schilderijen van oude meesters. still life with Glass, Cheese, Butter and Cake Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten First half of 17th century Oil on panel Private collection It is well known that Holland, and particularly its women, had an international reputation for cleanliness. Cleanliness is of paramount importance for the production of butter and cheese.
Ableton Live: Grain Delay for Quick Sound Design If I was able to modify the Ableton GUI even a little bit, I’d design a light to shine down like rays from heaven on a few of the different plug-ins that come with Ableton because they are pure game changers! One of these would be the Grain Delay, which is possibly one of the most understated. Its plain packaging hides the fact that it is able to create some amazing textures and sounds from anything that you throw at it. In fact, I’ve used it to randomly generate sounds that have left people scratching their heads later in terms of how I actually did create them. One technique that I love would be using the Grain Delay to randomize various drum hits in realtime, and record this process from within Ableton using the Resampling function, then edit the randomly generated sounds for a whole new set. Let me show you what I mean: Step 1 - Find a Starting Synth Patch I’m going to start off with a simple, self-made drum loop that I made in Ableton Live with a Drum Rack. Step 2 - Add a Grain Delay
Basic Synthesis and Sound Design essentials made easy Basic Synthesis and Sound Design essentials: I wanted to give you some basic concepts to synthesis that you can quickly use to better your sound design abilities. My hope is that I am able to help people who haven’t yet had the ability to grasp it quite yet. I will do my best to share what I understand in a way that is easily digestible. This stuff has taken me years to understand. Waveforms Sine wave – The simplest of all waveforms. Square wave – This waveform only exsists as highs or lows with nothing inbetween. Pulse wave – This is basically like a Square wave with adjustable highs and lows which can vary the harmonic content of the sound. can create reed like tones. Sawtooth Wave – Produces all odd and even harmonics which is great for raspy dirty tones as well as brassy sounds. Triangle wave – This only contains odd harmonics and is great when mixed with Sine, Square or Pulse waves to add some brightness or glitter. Additive Synthesis: Oscillators: Envelopes: Subtractive Synthesis: Jason
Synth » The Intergenerational Ponzi Scheme Alex Steffen Our economy today operates like an intergenerational Ponzi scheme. It pays profits today to older generations who’ve invested in it, promising younger generations that (in exchange for their own work and investment) they too will benefit when their turn comes. But because many of the systems generating those profits run unsustainably, when younger generations’ turns finally arrive, those systems will be worth less than they are today. Some may be extremely expensive to maintain by then (like auto-dependent exurban developments). Climate change looms as the epitome of an intergenerational Ponzi scheme: for a limited benefit in this generation, we are burning dirty fuels that will present great difficulties for (if not wreak disasters on) many generations to come. It’s probably worth noting that even those present profits are highly inequitably distributed. The public debate on sustainability and the economy is shifting.
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Rhythm Studio » Copenhagen and the War for the Future Alex Steffen (Another old piece, slightly edited, brought to mind by a recent discussion…) That which is unsustainable cannot go on. Unsustainable things that are propped up too long snap and collapse suddenly. These shouldn’t be radical statements; they’re all demonstrably true. When confronted with generational conflict, we naturally tend to see the elders as seasoned and realistic, and the youth as passionate and ethical, and to seek a middle ground of tempered realism. And this is what most older observers seem to refuse to understand: The world looks dramatically different if the year 2050 is one you’re likely to be alive to see. To be young and aware today is to see your elders burning your civilization down around you. To be young and aware is to see old people—from the U.S. Myself, I worry: not that the young grow radical—hell, if I were 10 years younger, I’d be on the barricades myself—but that they grow despondent. This piece was a part of The GOOD Guide to COP-15
BallDroppings From the Author: BallDroppings has already been implemented in other languages, you can download it for Mac or Windows here: .. it's a musical playtoy that looks like abstract pong. My hope is that i will be able to port enough of it to Javascript, and then use a bit of Flash to manage the sound. The result will be a limited version of BallDroppings that works in the browser. Technology: