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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
What am I doing now? I been trying to get some notation software to print out notes for handbell ringers. Anyway, I recorded one or two phrases with Windows “sound recorder” software under the accessories -> entertainment program group. Put it into this video. Any comments on the sound? Talking about bells. I had the experience of [...]
Saturday, August 15, 2009
This week must have been a hectic one, because I just couldn’t pull myself to go outdoors to enjoy the breeze on this Saturday morning. Just felt like sleeping. Motivation came in the form of going out to the supermarket, getting some stuff. Then I’m back home to whip up something for lunch. I was [...]
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 [...]
The boys and girls are really getting better as a band. Here we see the rhythm / percussion section working on a groove on the drumset, roto-toms, congas and bongos. Unfortunately some of the guys in the section are on medical leave, but anyway I kind of liked the way the section was learning to [...]