Just spent my first full day playing with Push. Worth it. Fun. Not what I expected, even after seeing all the videos etc. Background + Biases: I write / produce / perform electronic music w/vocals, play around with DJ-ing and scratching, mostly in studio. I mainly run StudioOne, Live, and Traktor depending on what...
Read more →http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/27/chuck-close-on-creativity/
Read more →Wow. I come from a gun-owning family, grew up shooting and even went hunting a couple of times. I’m all for sane people being licensed to own reasonable guns. But for NRA reps to get up in front of the country and propose putting men with guns in every school is just bats**t looney....
Read more →OK, WTF is this? Search Amazon for Othniel Hermes and you get an index with page after page of “books” that sell for $40 to $60 and contain Wikipedia content. Some are “in stock” some are on back order. Many are available from other Amazon sellers, both new and used. These are NOT e-books...
Read more →big labels are basically a Venture Capital model, taking either partial ownership of a band’s interests and/or lending them money. This model of investment goes back at least as far as the invention of money: in its modern form it has made Silicon Valley what it is today, and it works. The reasons you...
Read more →MusicRadar is running their annual poll “What’s the best DAW in the world?”, and this is the comment I put in the comments section: I think the poll is OK, but I’d re-title it “Which DAW sucks least…” I own full licensed / latest versions of S1V2, Reaper, Live, Reason, FLS, and PT9 (PT9...
Read more →I stopped using FB in 2009, started using Twitter and +, but then came back to FB to promote my music projects. Based on my round-trip experience, I think that FB is far from dead, but is traumatically overpriced in terms of the perceived value of “friends” and “likes” which in turn leads to...
Read more →At first I did not understand the image on the booklet that came with my beats. Now that I understand it I have provided this illustrated guide.
What the girl on the Beats booklet is thinking …
Sometimes I take a break from my career as an international EDM rock star sensation to read a book. This post is about one such book. If you like creative explanations of the Fermi paradox and apparent lack of Von Neumann probes as well as realistic ideas about first contact, then David Brin’s new...
Read more →LISTEN: The Human Operators / Naughty Librarian (EP Version)
Read more →Interesting article republished on mashable from umpf.com about Google+ lack of readership. The net conclusion is that there is a much lower per capita usage of G+ by its users than any other service including LinkedIn. The author points out that G+ makes it very hard for non-gmail users to sign up – part...
Read more →OK, I must admit it: my wife’s Samsung Galaxy S3 is better than my iPhone 4GS. Ever since I ran my fingers over her full, voluptuous screen I feel like my iPhone is just a little … inadequate. I’m quite surprised after having two droids over a period of almost 3 years and an...
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