Month: September 2009
Lots of recording since I last posted. Tried GarageBand for one experiment, though the many pre-composed elements that come with GarageBand are a real turnoff for me. I still have a tentative relationship with loops to begin with, especially when they are not simply percussion or drums. Anything melodic is ...
Annual Stillwater Poetry Festival takes place in September at Memorial Park in Stillwater, PA (It’s just 14 miles north of Bloomsburg/I-80, on Route 487.) The event is rain or shine (there is a big tent), and is “pay what you wish.” In addition a line-up of award-winning ...
For all of the minor technical problems that I’ve had (which I think are universal for any computer), I need to step back and comment on some of the many positives of writing/recording with the MacBook Pro. These observations fall into two categories: Software (in this case Garageband) and Hardware ...
Native Instruments’ free VST synth platform Kore is a nice tool. It comes with many great patches, and works well on PC, but the Mac version appeared to have lots of trouble recognizing a MIDI input from a Triton… or so I thought. Read about my wild goose chase… ...