I Love Shapelock!
Sometimes you come across something so cool that you have to post about it, whether it’s directly related to music or not! This is just one of those times. Last Tuesday I made a quick overnight trip to see my good friend Steve Cooley perform a live set with his musical compatriots Haptic Synapses. Hanging out with him the next day he showed me an amazing fast-prototyping material called Shapelock. It starts out as little plastic beads, but once heated in water to at least 150 degrees...
Read MoreThe Beatseqr Returns
One more video featuring Steve Cooley’s amazing Beatseqr. This time I’m using the Beatseqr to simultaneously send MIDI data to four different channel strips in Logic, each with a different instrument set up on it. Let the awesomeness ensue. ...
Read MoreBeatseqr comes to Robot Junkyard
Here are a couple of videos I recently did explaining the basics of the Beatseqr MIDI controller which is handmade by my good friend Steve Cooley. If you are interested in getting your hands on one of these bad boys, head on over to beatseqr.com to learn more. ...
Read MoreBedtop mobile studio surgery
I had the wonderful opportunity to perform a surgical procedure on my mobile studio this evening, and by mobile studio I mean my trusty Macbook Pro. A few months ago, my trusty studio took an unfortunate cliff dive off of a shelf with a cable in the left side USB port. Sadly, the USB cable was no longer attached when I arrived on the scene to render medical assistance, and in its place was the mangled, twisted wreckage of one-time pristine I/O port. I tried to revive the USB port, but...
Read MoreTools of the trade
My current studio is 100% digital. It is really amazing what modern hardware and software is capable of, and I’m not even using anything terribly groundbreaking. The ability to meld both synthetic and organic sounds all based in a digital domain is extremely liberating as I don’t have to take time to track down sources. Yes, there are drawbacks. One sound form that I have a very difficult time recreating is a simple repeating acoustic guitar strum with all it’s...
Read MoreView from My Eyes
