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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... »

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... »

Look to the Past For New Sounds

By oneoverphi

Ever wanted to go old-school with your instru­ments? I mean really, really old-school? Well you’re in luck my dear read­ers, I know a place where you can go back to the stone-age for your heavy rock sound ( I couldn’t resist, I’m weak ). Pale­o­planet, a site devoted to pre­his­toric tech­nol­ogy, hap­pens to have a forum sec­tion on music. Not... »

Concert for the Deaf

By oneoverphi

Through the power of “emoti-chairs” designed by Ryerson’s Cen­tre for Learn­ing Tech­nolo­gies and the Sci­ence of Music, Audi­tory Research and Tech­nol­ogy lab, Clinton’s Tav­ern in Toronto on March 5 will be throw­ing down a show for the deaf. The emoti-chair is designed to inter­pret music into tac­tile sen­sa­tions and is part of CLT’s Alter­na­tive Sen­sory Infor­ma­tion... »

Sansa slotMusic Player, What Are You Thinking?

By oneoverphi

San­Disk has rolled out a new music player that plays music off of microSD cards. The cards come loaded with music in the same way that a CD is. The player will also play cards that you load your­self so that you may make your own mix tapes. It seems to me that this is one step back­ward.... »

Extreme Instruments

By oneoverphi

It’s been a while dear read­ers. I’ve had a lion’s share of my time taken by the arrival of my sec­ond off­spring. But I’m here now to serve some music goodness. I’ve found some won­der­ful exam­ples of instru­ment mak­ing gone amok (much of it hav­ing to do with scale, hehe). For instance a real playable tiny grand piano or... »

DIY Musical Mayhem">DIY Musical Mayhem

By oneoverphi

For those with a DIY bent, Instructa​bles​.com has a group devoted to audio projects. While there are many projects related to iPod speak­ers, there are some projects more related to music pro­duc­tion. Take the Looper for instance. Many a time when I’m did­dling on the gui­tar I come up with a lick I’d like to expand upon. It’s a bit... »

5 Big Steps in Music Technology

By oneoverphi

Here is a neat lit­tle list of 5 impor­tant devel­op­ments in mod­ern music tech­nol­ogy brought to you by New Sci­en­tist. I never new there existed such a machine as the pho­nau­to­graph. Cool stuff indeed. The last two hun­dred years have seen huge advances in music tech­nol­ogy, such as elec­tronic music and even home record­ing soft­ware. Here are five of the... »

Get Your own Edison-Style Phonograph

By oneoverphi

The fine peo­ple at Maker Shed, the store­front for Make mag­a­zine, have on offer an Edison-Style Phono­graph. All I can say is that this is damn cool. What I would do with it is anyone’s guess. I’m sure it would be great for get­ting that lo-hi effect into record­ings. It also would make a great party acces­sory.... »

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