a demo of live sequencing with seq24
Despite a whole bunch of idiosyncrasies, I love seq24, and even though I tend to think of Qtractor as my MIDI sequencer of choice under Linux, it’s actually seq24 that I’ve used the most in producing...
View Articlelinux music tutorial: seq24, part 2
In the first part of my seq24 tutorial series, I looked at creating patterns in the pattern editor, and then triggering those patterns in real-time from the QWERTY keyboard. In part 2, I go in to more...
View Articlethe rock band 3 keyboard
It’s worth mentioning that for my keyboard-playing in Rock Band 3, I’m using the official keyboard controller, and I’m really quite impressed by it — it’s solid, the keys feel great, and it has a...
View Articleconverting MIDI to WAV (or MP3), the easy way
This is a question that comes up all the time: what’s the easiest way to convert a MIDI file in to an audio file, like an MP3, under Linux? The old answer was TiMidity++ (usually just called...
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some daw notes: mixing in qtractor, and testing ardour 3
So far, I’ve been using Qtractor for all of the recording and sequencing on the track I’m working on. As an exercise, I’m going to try to stick with Qtractor throughout the mixing process, too. I’ve...
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new studio toys
In the last few weeks I’ve added two great bits of gear to my home studio. The first, which I actually received for Christmas, is the Korg nanoKONTROL (Amazon link), a brilliant little MIDI controller...
View Articlesome early ardour 3 impressions
Ardour 3 is now in alpha, and I’ve been poking at it for a few days now; in fact, you may have noticed some bits of Ardour 3’s GUI in the screenshot from my last post. It’s still quite crashy, as you’d...
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ardour 3 midi progress
I have a new track in the works, and as an exercise, I’m sequencing it all within Ardour 3. The alphas of Ardour 3 have been great on audio-only projects, but for MIDI work they’ve been highly unstable...
View Articlenew music update
A few months ago I posted that I was working on new music using Ardour 3, and I’m glad to say that my new track is now all but finished. Working with Ardour 3 was a bit nervewracking at times, as you’d...
View Articlerpm 2012 post-mortem
Before the process of making my RPM 2012 album becomes a distant memory, I wanted to get down some notes on the album as a whole, and on each track. This post is about the album as a whole; I’ll follow...
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