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 [...]

Free Friday or Free Audio Recording Software

This free Friday is focused on free audio recording, editing and DAW software. If you have wanted or needed to to record or edit audio or even pout together a whole song this software will aid you without emptying your wallet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Audactiy

Audacitiy is a great audio editor that I use all the time.  Should be familiar to [...]

Korg Nano Video or Small Controllers Captured on Film

Found Via Chip collection:

Here is some video of one of those cool Korg Nano Controllers.  More at SOS also.

Crowd Chamber or Build Your Own Crowd

Crowd Chamber is a new plug-in from QuikQuak. It is not exactly your normal effect. I may never hear a enormous crowd cheering for me but a can simulate one.

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

Friday Links or The Noble Prize for Making the Web Less Annoying

The problem I found is there is a whole bunch of shitty cell phone concert videos that I don’t care to see. A lot of them have 5 star ratings though unwatchable. If someones finds away to filter the crap out ofYouTube you deserve a Nobel Prize because you could make the whole web less annoying with that technology.

More DNA or the Attention of MIT

Celemony Software’s Direct Note Access is making news outside of music making circles. Technology Review has a pretty good 2 page article on it.

Key Chain Studio

I have written a guide to having a key chain studio. The idea is basically turning a USB memory stick into a DAW. Even if this doesn’t sound that appealing to you there is a lot more info on applications that run off portable drives that would be useful to almost anyone. [...]