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Another vote for a looper


a la Rc-50

Vista 64 is still at best in Beta stage as far as pro audio apps go.

Love it.

I think the best way to approach college is take the minimum you can to stay full time (in the states 12 hours a semester) That way you don't get overwhelmed in that drama, and still have time to do your own personal explorations in Max/Ableton, etc... and have time to network/meet people. Bill Gate...

As a friend of mine once said...

Drugs in your twenties are an adventure.
... Once you reach your thirties... it's just a form of self-medication.

I know lots of great musicians who smoke weed daily, but then again I know some other ones that are pathetic and only a few years away from homelessness.

That's kinda a narrow viewpoint... Even groups like Rage agains the Machine have used samples. With samples you can get timbres that you might find hard to get in a 4 piece rock band. I wouldn't release a song with the Amen Break unless I thought it was original, but it's a great break to practice w...

If the computer is fast enough to run it, I would keep in on there.

Keyboard magazine is a decent magazine. I wouldn't expect them to scam you. I think they must be getting most their money from advertising, since the subscription cost is $1 per issue. If you want to learn the keyboard they have the best transcriptions. Everything from old funk players to tori amos ...

Sweet! I loved when the first one came out.

Trentemoller - The Last Resort --- brilliant !!!!
+1 +1

Interesting about it being in Acid, but I have a feeling it's tracked there and taken to a studio for mixing... though I could be wrong.


and also:
Juana Molina - Son

Blaming the U.S. for everything isn't clever anymore.

yeah.. it's basically colonialism that's the root of most problems... the root of that would be imperialism... and the root of that would be Babylon, which brings us back to the first problem I guess.

It's okay. Not really great.

http://www.sound.org/
I'd go with the Waves plugin tutorial books. They were much more hands on, even though I'm not a big fan of waves plugins you can use the techniques with any setup.

Music theory is an addicting thing...

Hopefully it's just temporarily down, but the Ravenspiral guide is really nice general outline of music theory as it relates to electronica:

http://www.ravenspiral.com/ravenspiralguide.pdf

Trilogy (the vsti) is nice for this http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/trilogy.html

You'd have to use midi, but if it's just a standard bass line it's going to sound better than a transposed guitar.

Armenian Proverb:
One idiot threw a stone in the well, fourty wise people couldn't get it out.



Probably the reasoning used by Cheney for attacking Iran.