Ok the video that I'm posting is why I love Macs! If you can do this with Windows somebody please let me know and my opinion of Windows will change only slightly though. Now I'm not a DJ but what "eangolden" is showing us could apply to any workstation and it wouldn't matter if your working on video or audio! You would just have to modify the settings to fit your need. What he is showing also would definitely benefit those with less RAM or processing power. The only downside to this feature is it's only available to Leopard users. So let the optimizing begin!

Free Fridays!!

Every Friday I'm going to post links to free stuff. This weeks links come from Native Instruments.
The program is called beatport-sync- it's a simplified version of Traktor and a lot more fun than i-tunes to dj with. The other is called kontakt-player which is also a freebie from Native Instruments. I haven't yet downloaded kontakt-player but hopefully this weekend- I've heard nothing but good things about the full version Kontakt so I can't wait to try it out. Enjoy and let me know what you think of beatport and kontakt! Have a good weekend everyone and yea next week freebies will be posted on Friday ;)
You can get Kontakt player HERE.
You can get beatport HERE.

thievery corporation

I've been a Thievery Corporation fan for a long time and came to know them through a compilation called DJ kicks which is a great album and is probably in my top ten all time favorite. A buddy sent me this link where they totally plug Logic! I sometimes think that Pro-tools and Live get all the attention of "serious" artists. To find out Thievery Corporation uses Logic as their main DAW and without a bunch of other 3rd party plugs or external hardware is pretty sweet! Enjoy the video.

First Post.

Well this is my first post of many. I felt compelled to start a blog because I'm passionate about music and the creation of music. I don't get hung up on technique or accepted ways of recording and I try to be as simplistic as possible when recording. My home studio is Logic Studio 8 based- I still run Tiger and probably will until my machine bricks or Apple completely and utterly stops supporting it. The majority of plug ins that I use are from Native Instruments and Spectrasonics.
I also use an Access Virus TI which I've had for approx 3 years and still haven't fully wrapped my head around. My setup is very simple- my Virus is my audio interface and I have no other external gear except my Roland SP-404 which I love to manipulate samples with. Most of the radical effects I use come from Kore2 and Logic. The name Ripple7 occurred to me one night on the way home from work. At the time my commute was a hour and 40 minutes and I was listening to "Speedlearn" by The Higher Intelligence Agency and processing the day. The song uses a lot of reverb and echo and reminds me of a pebble that's dropped into a completely still body of water and how just a little disturbance or "resonance" can completely change the surface of the water to point it's no longer able to reflect accurately whats above the water and you get this twisted often indiscernible image. That's the type of place I hope to take you to where the sound is so far from what it used to sound like and you can't distinguish it even though it sounds vaguely familiar.