Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wondering what patch creation means? I’m still wondering, as in – why we do it, what we would want to achieve with it. Where earlier on, we wanted to emulate real world instruments, using concepts such as ‘physical modeling’. Whereas now, we seek to emulate vintage analog electronic instruments or make new, unique, musical sounds [...]
Hey I was running through a couple of catalogues for laptops. I even spent sometime checking out the machines at the showrooms. I realized that specs doesn’t really say much about it. Strangely, the machine of the same specs seem to have some delay tagged to some of them. Well no mentioning of brands here, [...]
Yes! Update on the IBM Lenovo project. It’s now churning out cool sounds and music tracks. The soft synth thing is still on going. Why? I checked out the minimum requirements for the modern soft-synths and they need 2GB RAM. Preferably with 4GB for the Orchestral sounds that I want to put in with the [...]
Hi all, This time, I set up an IBM Lenovo for use as a soft-syth together with the EMU X-Board 61 controller. It was quite a challenge to all the software and machine running together with the latest drivers, because someone had previously installed imaging and other software on it. Together with unsuccessful installations of [...]
Was halfway on the search for that software synthesizer. Gonna put it in my 8-out box. But it just must have that full bass and clear highs and warm mids. So that means I’ve been spending time with the signal chain and the pres and powers amps and speakers. But I finally finished the maintenance [...]
What’s been happening? Software. Some time back I was made a post on music notation software. This time all I can say is that I’ve been looking at the application of software synthesizers. Lots of new stuff is going into them and have been playing with this Alchemy soft synth by Camel Audio to be [...]
This week I brought back the bass drum that I use to teach kids in rhythm training. It seems some of them found playing the basic patterns boring. What’s up with that? Don’t most of the best selling music use the same patterns most of the time? I always felt time keeping and laying down [...]
Hi, I’ve been busy since September last year. The music competitions for the schools have kept us all on a hectic schedule. Finally had the time to do stuff like shoot fun videos of some basic stuff for the percussion instruments. All sorts of conversions in formats, shot in HD in *.mov format for Quicktime [...]
Monday, September 7, 2009
Hey I must be quite lucky to get cards from my students. Teacher’s day. Yeah! I really appreciate the effort taken by the kids in preparing the cards. Thanks to everyone. Below is the image of one of the cards showing the extra effort it takes to decorate them.
This time, we have a very sick set of drums coming in. I can’t stand the sight of the injuries. Misunderstood, abused, and misused. The poor drumset has been bashed and trashed by frustrated students and mindless, deaf and dumb drummers. It’s a crime! Anyway, Doctor Dad and me applied TLC and some fine handwork [...]