I’m feeling accomplished this morning: I have just finished backup of all my music project files (mostly done in Cakewalk Sonar 8.5). About 8GB of melodies, grooves, beats, wild and not-so-wild solos are now stored on two DVDs. And it took was perhaps less than 10 minutes of my time, plus about 40 minutes of [...]
Keith Barr, best known as a founder of Alesis, has recently passed away, leaving a big imprint onto the music production world. As a long time user of Alesis instruments and sound effects (a legendary QS6.1 is still doing great job as a master keyboard in my home studio, after all these years) I have [...]
I have just heard about passing of the great jazz singer Abbey Lincoln this morning. Her heavenly voice will find a good home up there…
Looking at the recent songs across different genres, it seems that far too often people get so focused on production side of things (coolest sounds, special FX, massively compressed, extreme energy mastering, etc.) that the song itself somehow disappears. Digital studios make it just too easy to get carried away with all music technology gizmos. [...]