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Bad music kills. Nice marketing by a music pubishing firm.
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More women than men like my music?
My latest track (Diurnal Voices) has been playing on a social web streaming radio system for about a week, and as of today more females have been clicking the “like” button than men. I wonder what it is about this song in particular, or perhaps it says more about the user base of that site…
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Does anyone know “Box Fresh”?
There’s a guy in Toronto who goes by the moniker “Box Fresh” and I’d like to give him proper credit for using his voice in my latest track. Then there’s also “Doug”, but I think he’s in Seattle…
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The good old days of science…
Reading about the great vibrating string controversy; a vituperative scientific dispute of the mid-1700s, drawing into battle all the leading mathematicians and physicists of the time, which is to say, d’Alembert, Euler, Bernoulli, Lagrange and (later) Fourier.
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Univox SR-95 rhythm machine as an Ableton Live drum pad →
Here are the sound samples from the Univox SR-95 (aka Keio MiniPops MP-7) drum machine packaged up as a drum pad in Ableton Live 8.1.3 (not backward-compatible with earlier versions).
The Univox SR-95 was an analog machine from the 1970s famously used by Jean-Michel Jarre on his Oxygene album in 1976.
All sourced samples are 44.1 kHz, 16-bit wav files. They were not individually normalised so that the original balance between all sounds is preserved.
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Whiney Ah Synth Voice - Custom Image-Line Harmless synth VST preset
Today I was playing around programming Image-Line’s Harmless VST synth. It’s relatively new subtractive-additive synthesizer — yes, that sounds like an oxymoron! Here’s the link to download the preset I made and tested in the above audio file; feel free to use it however you wish. Save the file in the “Presets” folder found in the Harmless install directory): FXP file
