I have to highly recommend paying attention to the Amazon MP3 store’s Twitter feed. Today I scored the Hold Steady’s Stay Positive for only $1.99– the whole farging album. Go get it, you farging iceholes. And subscribe to the feed so you don’t miss anything else.
Archives for August 2008
Direct Note Access
Famous M sent his fellow Magnans this little video that blew me away. It used to be if you’d track a wrong note on a polyphonic instrument, you surely had to punch-in to fix the entire phrase. Now with Celemony’s Direct Note Access, you just let the software separate out all the notes including decays […]
Name droppin
You know that guy who came from behind in the 4×100 freestyle relay to put in the best split ever and secure the gold medal for the USA– link? Well, he and I were classmates back at UCSB in Dramatic Arts 5. We both signed up for the class because it was easy and fun. […]
Pacific Arms recording
I wrote and recorded a song on my old cassette four-track about a year ago. Check it. http://coimk.com/2008/08/07/a-new-pa-track/
the cat in the bat
Batcat I’m not so sure about the video, but I can’t say I mind the song– Mogwai in rock mode. via Wired update: The Myspace vid embed stopped working, so I switched to Youtube. The audio bit rate doesn’t seem as high. another update: Youtube embed no worky no more. Myspace embed is back.
TunePrompter
My good friend emailed me a link to a neat little tool that let’s you create your own karaoke files– TunePrompter. Import the mp3, import the lyrics, and then listen to the song and tap on the spacebar to sync the words with the song. After your done tapping, you can fine tune the word […]
A new PA track
Earlier this week, my two-year-old daughter and I were playing with my old Tascam cassette four-track recorder. She got a kick out of pushing the faders up and down to make the guitars and voices disappear and re-appear. I’m looking forward to the time in the future when she’ll be laying down her own crazy […]
The Beatles were on to something
Here’s an interesting article about the magic of early Beatles songs– Words and chords. The semantic shifts of the Beatles’ chords. Unless you understand music theory, this is probably going to look like a lot of mumbo jumbo to you. It’s a pretty good explanation on why the Beatles were so revolutionary. via Make