CEPA (The Center for Electronic Performance and Art) and M.I.A. (Machine Inspired Art) are presenting ConCon – The Controller Convention, July 19-21 at M.I.A. Gallery, in downtown Los Angeles.ConCon features workshops, demos and discussions during the day, and performances at night: Workshops featuring Roland, Korg, Native Instruments, Abelton, Livid Instruments, Numark and many others, on…
Nile Rogers, Funk and Daft Punk
Here’s a great video where funk guitar virtuoso Nile Rogers talks about his style and his collaboration on the latest Daft Punk record Random Access Memories. Nile just oozes groove, which too many guitar players don’t get, unfortunately. Another thing to watch is how well this video is done, especially the editing. It’s a good…
Logic Pro Tutorial: Creative Quantization Using the EXS24 Sampler w/ Shadetek
Dubspot instructor and course designer Matt Shadetek demonstrates Logic Pro 9’s ‘Convert to new Sample Track’ function with the EXS24 sampler. He also shares tips and tricks for chopping and manipulating samples using one of his current remix projects. In this video we’ll look at one of my favorite features added to Logic in version…
Participating In Hip Hop In The Internet Era
In an era where YouTube fame can lead to a million dollar Rap career, artists and fans have to figure out how some of Hip Hop’s five pillars remain relevant. Ask anyone if they think the origins of Hip Hop’s emcee, b-boy, deejay, and graffiti culture have changed, and you’ll be certain to get a…
Extremely Powerful’ MIDI Step Sequencer, Thesys, Now Available For iPad
Sugar Bytes has released Thesys – an iPad version of their ‘extremely powerful and intuitive’ MIDI step sequencer app. Thesys provides a versatile palette of performance options, which can be triggered right from your MIDI keyboard: you can transpose, manipulate, twist up, mutate, and mangle patterns without needing to touch your iPad. You can use…
Reason 405: Twisted Sound Design – 11. Diverse Oscillator Setups
In this sound design course, Mo has prepared a rack full of awesome instruments and FX to unleash the power of Reason’s amazing synths (think Thor and Scream 4, The Echo and Kong…) You’ll be blown away by what Dr. OctoRex can do when the good Doctor’s envelopes filters and LFOs are tweaked and infused…
Sonic TALK 319
Firstly we riff on the upcoming Glastonbury festival and related tales, then we discuss the transition from using vinatge electronics in the studio to live as inspireed by the Depeche Mode Access focussed stage tour, then the Presonus video shot with Oasis UK and their use of StudioLive 16:4:2 leads to a discussion on wether…
Interview With Wale At The Breakfast Club Power 105.1 [Part 1]
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Y8HfenKzc [Breakfast Club]
Synth.nl Apollo Documentary Looks At What Drives Us To Make Music
This short documentary film looks at Dutch synthesist Michel van Osenbruggen, the events that have inspired him and what led him to producing his own electronic music. Readers may be familiar to Osenbruggen’s series of albums, released as Synth.nl, including Apollo, Atmosphere and Primitives. Osenbruggen is also the man behind ‘the ultimate synth-cave‘, Apollo Studios….
Ableton Live Tutorial: Techno Fundamentals Pt 2 – One Note To Rule Them All – Synth + Macros
More info: http://bit.ly/16e1sAw In the second installment of Techno Fundamentals, electronic music producer and Dubspot instructor John Selway looks at the “one note lead” idea using Ableton Live’s Analog instrument. Commonly used in techno and other styles of electronic dance music where melody takes a backseat to rhythm, the “one note lead” is a simple…
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