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Check out this piece of music where I sampled flutes, violin, sax, clarinet and my own bass guitar on the fly using Ableton Live. This enabled me to double the number of instruments and create a mini orchestra of sampled and performed instruments.

The Fifthy Loops by Apell performed at "Re-sound ...

You can get away with mixing on other speakers that aren't studio monitors but you will find it easier to get good mix that sounds consistent on a wide ranges of systems from PC speaker, Good Quality Hi Fi to a car stereo by using "flat" studio monitors. Using studio monitors you won't be mislead ...

I often dig into my archives and rework or remix older tracks and ideas. For comparison check out the following links.

Old
http://www.apellmusic.com/electronic-music-releases/index.php/beaver-street-bagpipe-flamenco-guitar-remix/

http://www.apellmusic.com/electronic-music-releases/index.php/apell ...

If only I didn't have to go to work and could spend more time doing music...

Here are some things I've purchased and have been very happy with.

Digitech Synth Bass Pedal
I spent ages looking for a Mutron type bass guitar filter pedal that didn't cost $100s as everything does in Australia. I got this pedal for $80 AUS on eBay and it does the 70's funky auto-wah filter ...

When play live I use a cheap little Behringer mixer that I plug my bass guitar into which then plugs into my laptop sound card.

I picked up a Digitech Control 7 midi foot controller on eBay and through using the Bome's Midi Translator program I have set the foot controller to act as the QWERTY ...

These shortcuts will help my mouse related RSI!!