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Home Theatre

mjladd — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:52:07 +0000

Not much time this week, all my time was taken up by the great home-theatre rebuild. New TV (our first flatscreen) plus the blue-ray (PS3) player. It took awhile, but everything is talking nicely to each other. My entertainment world is now in HD and surround sound. The bad news is, even that couldn’t make Batman:Dark Knight a watchable film.

30min

mjladd — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:46:03 +0000

Checking my iTunes playlist of new music, I just passed the 30 minute mark of new stuff that I’ve written. Eight tunes so far, between two and six minutes. I think they feel as part of one project. I think a couple more song-ish tunes and I’ll dump the lot of them online.

It’s a good feeling to know my way around the set of tools to compose, not fighting with the software or the interface and just creating. I couldn’t imagine having this technology in school.

post-weekend reason

mjladd — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:53:46 +0000

This weekend went far too quickly. Spend most of it parked in front of the computer digging into Reason. I my former musical life I used it mostly for synthesis, but I’m trying to really dig into all the features and eliminate the need for many further purchases. Like a lot of deep software, I find myself looking at other products if they do one aspect slightly easier, but I’m trying to squeeze everything possible out of Reason. The newest version has been ordered and should arrive this week.

I’ve done very little sequencing, mostly editing big fat audio files rather than deal with midi. As a project for the day, I took a NIN tune and recreated all the drum/bass/keyboard parts, took a good chunk of the day, but I’m pretty close on a bar-by-bar level, but the synthesis is really weak.

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