Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
This is a truly amazing instrument much more so than the iElectribe. If I didn’t already own an iPad, this would be an app to make me seriously consider getting one. I own the Korg legacy collection and a rather new radias but this adds something. I can get a similar enough sound from a [...]
Finally something else worth talking about besides the iPad!!! The imminent os 4 upgrade will offer a mod matrix feature on all Virus TIs. The feature allows you to use an arpeggiator pattern as a source in the modulation matrix. To those of you not familiar with a mod matrix, I would describe it as [...]
mLan16e2 expansion on motif xs handles 16 channels out and 6 channels in at 44.1 khz korg exb-fw, only does 6 out and 2 in at 48khz. Motif wins. As a performance synth, the m3 wins. It has karma, drum pads, drum track, xy pad, chord memory. Motif has an arp. As a sequencer, Motif [...]
So I just added a Motif XS6 to the setup. I know I was supposed to be done but I couldn’t help it. Nice looking baby, great sequencer, interesting layering capabilities not so wonderful screen. I’ll tell you more about it. I have 32 hours of flying coming up so i guess thats a perfect [...]
Here is something I posted earlier on gearslutz. Gear Slutz 808s post I love most of 808s. Kanye may not have a great vocal technique or the best lyrics but then music has never been about just that. It’s a classic case of the sum being way bigger than the parts. (mediocre arrangement + ok [...]
This has bugged me since the big bang. I’ve just come up with a method that seems to work really well for me. This solution will only work for keyboard players. The basis for my method is the assumption that all the notes in the key that the song is in, will sound fine when [...]
I’m really feeling this album. Choice cuts are 9 mm, Lions in the forest. I haven’t heard an album like this in a while. Enough guitars and atmospherics to give it that gothic feel. I also like lighter drums. Hard hitting drums have been kinda played out for a while. Its a shame this isn’t [...]