Les Paul or The God Father of Modern Music

Legendary guitarist and musical inventor Les Paul died yesterday at 94.  Paul’s contribution to the world it much greater than just a Jazz guitarist with a famous model named after him.  He is more than just inventor.  He is perhaps the most important figure in the history of 20 century music making.  He was the [...]

Recording with Reason? or What Really

Reason fans might final have a integrated recording option.  It is kind of hard to believe.  I can’t wait to give it a try.  They are beta testing right now.  You can sign up here. 

Weekend Links or Tips, Instrumnets, Plugins and Laughs

Tips and Resources:

Robert Green DIY show you how to make a DJ set in Ableton Live.

Digital Burn has a cool tutorial on creating that Aphex Twin effect in Reason.

Recording Review has some great idea about getting good results with vocal doubling.

Ableton Live DJ has a bunch of live goodness

Instruments:

Electric Guitar Review Telecater Relic project is [...]

A Peice of Music for 365 Days or Sixty Seconds A Day

NPR had a cool piece on composer David Morneau.  If you follow the link you can listen to the story and a few pieces of his music.  Basically he he set out to create 60 seconds of music a day for an entire year.  He somehow succeed.  OK, digging out garage band samples and the [...]

Weekend Links or Mastering, Documentaries, Steam Punk and Nude Statues

I wonder what Watt would have though about the steam punk business going on now. They have done everything else why not a guitar. Though this does look like something that BC Rich would have sold in the 80’s. It might be the flying V. Maybe a little to [...]

Organization Plugin or Preset Freebie

love free stuff and like anything that can help me be more organized. Naturally the Wusik Vm caught my eye when it became free just recently. It is a VST organizer.

Killer VST or Good Karma

Some plug-in news form two devs with good stuff.

Live Orchestra or Ableton Plays the Classics

Ableton has released The Orchestral Instrument Collection.

Impulse Reponses or More Wav’s For Your Convolution

I found this good collection of Impulse response:

Custom Made Impulse Responses

Groove Analogizer or Free intage electronic drum tone generator

NUSofting Groove Analogizer is now free.