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Roll Your Own Software Guitar Effects

By oneoverphi

Here are great tuto­ri­als on build­ing your own soft­ware gui­tar effects with MaxMSP (Tuto­r­ial #1, Tuto­r­ial #2). For those who don’t know MaxMSP is an incar­na­tion of Max, the mul­ti­me­dia devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment. Max was rolled out by Cycling ’74. MSP is a set of mod­ules designed for real-time audio pro­cess­ing, check out the overview here.... »

Great Articles on Home Recording

By oneoverphi

Like many musi­cians today, I have a mod­est home stu­dio that I record in. Always keen to improve my record­ing skills, I was glad to stum­ble upon Home​Tracked​.com. It is a great blog main­tained by Des McK­in­ney which has lots of tips and tricks for get­ting the most out of your equip­ment, per­for­mance, and time. When the novice first... »

Microsoft Songsmith Commercial Wreaks Havoc on Psyche

By oneoverphi

I don’t know what to say, but I do know that when I watched this I died a lit­tle inside. You best see for yourself. »

Mouse Around With Strings

By oneoverphi

Look­ing for for some musi­cal play? Con­tra­punc­tus Vari­a­tions is an awe­some way to waste time on the inter­net. You get to com­pose dit­ties with mouse ges­tures for a string quar­tet. It’s pretty easy to use, my only qualm is that it’s a bit con­fus­ing as to what is going on, mak­ing it hard to con­trol. Still,... »

Ancient Computer Tunes

By oneoverphi

BBC has a writeup on the old­est known music pro­duced by a com­puter. My how far we’ve come. Dur­ing the ses­sion, the tem­pera­men­tal machine man­aged to work its way through Baa Baa Black Sheep, God Save the King and part of In the Mood. Fol­low­ing one aborted attempt, a laugh­ing pre­sen­ter says: “The machine’s obvi­ously not in the mood.” Read more … »

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