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Musical Flash Gizmo Roundup

By oneoverphi

If you’re look­ing to kill some time and feed musi­cal cre­ativ­ity then click away dear readers. www​.ball​drop​pings​.com/​js/ — Sounds a lit­tle dirty, but it’s a fun pro­gram where you make lit­tle tunes by hav­ing bounc­ing balls strike lines that you draw in space with your cursor. www​.thep​ix​elplant​.net/​d​m​f​/​d​m​f​.​h​tml — Tinydrum3.0 is a cute lit­tle sequencer. Try the ran­dom set­ting to get some... »

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.... »

Indispensible Online Music Tools, About 7 of Them

By oneoverphi

These are all great tools that you can use from your browser, and they are free. Go, enjoy, be creative! gui​taris​thelp​.com — They say “gui­tarist help”, but really these tools are use­ful for any musi­cian. Chiefly of use are the tools for find­ing scales from lists of notes or chords, and the tool to find chords... »

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. »

New Frontiers in Pitch Correction

By oneoverphi

The New York Times back in the sum­mer reported on a new piece of soft­ware that promises to bring pitch cor­rec­tion to poly­phonic record­ings. Direct Note Access has the abil­ity to reach into a chord and manip­u­late the indi­vid­ual notes in iso­la­tion. Direct Note Access is cre­ated by Cele­mony (the boys that brought you Melo­dyne). You... »

Fun Music Flash Visualisation

By oneoverphi

Go check out the Whit­ney Music Box. It’s a lit­tle weird if you’re not used to hear­ing chro­matic music but a fun visu­al­i­sa­tion of music none-the-less. Wheel Music is another such visualisation. »

The Best Tab Site Ever

By oneoverphi

Most online tab sucks. That is not to say that they are incor­rect or incom­plete (though this is a com­mon crime of online tab) but that often they are an unread­able mash of ASCII that is from a sys­tem pro­duced when mon­i­tors could only dis­play 16 colours. Just look at the exam­ple below. As far as... »

Learn Your Intervals

By oneoverphi

Musi­cians should be able to iden­tify inter­vals. It goes a long way in improv­ing your com­pos­ing and impro­vis­ing skills. If you find your skills in this area are rusty, or even com­pletely lack­ing, there is some­thing you can do. Go over to Michael Ossman’s Big Ears to sharpen your skills. For a more in-depth cov­er­age of... »

Practice to Some Real Beats

By oneoverphi

I found a cool lit­tle online drum machine called Mon­key Machine. It’s nice to use for when you’re prac­tic­ing and want a time­keeper that is a lit­tle more expre­sive than a metronome. Be sure to check out WeBirth by the same author. It is an online TB-303 bass syn­the­sizer and TR-909 drum syn­the­sizer. Very cool. »

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