Monthly Archives: June 2007

Within Reason – Part 3: Competition and Competitive Advantages

This is part 3 of a 6-part series of posts. If you enjoy this post please read the other entries:Part 1: The Conception of ReasonPart 2: The Birth of ReasonPart 3: Competition and Competitive AdvantagesPart 4: What Changed and How Reason Shoots Itself In The FootPart 5: Other ShortcomingsPart 6: A Reason To Believe

In the [...]

Within Reason – Part 2: The Birth of Reason

This is part 2 of a 6-part series of posts. If you enjoy this post please read the previous entries:Part 1: The Conception of ReasonPart 2: The Birth of ReasonPart 3: Competition and Competitive AdvantagesPart 4: What Changed and How Reason Shoots Itself In The FootPart 5: Other ShortcomingsPart 6: A Reason To Believe

Reason 1.0 [...]

Don’t Have This Guy Track Your Vocals

What you need to know:

1 – Take 3 was definitely NOT the overall best take.

2 – Sonar’s vocal comping looks pretty cool.

3 – You think you hate this song? Listen to how unexcited this guy is about working on it.

Within Reason – Part 1: The Conception of Reason

This is part 1 of a 6-part series of posts. If you enjoy this post please read other previous entries:Part 1: The Conception of ReasonPart 2: The Birth of ReasonPart 3: Competition and Competitive AdvantagesPart 4: What Changed and How Reason Shoots Itself In The FootPart 5: Other ShortcomingsPart 6: A Reason To Believe

Before Reason [...]

Within Reason – Intro

This is the introduction to a 6-part series of posts. If you enjoy this post please read the other entries:Part 1: The Conception of ReasonPart 2: The Birth of ReasonPart 3: Competition and Competitive AdvantagesPart 4: What Changed and How Reason Shoots Itself In The FootPart 5: Other ShortcomingsPart 6: A Reason To Believe

I purchased [...]

What I REALLY Want in Reason 4

To get out of Reason.I think Reason is a great for its instruments (was really my first experience with heavier MIDI sequencing and mixing), I started using it 5 years ago, but now I’ve moved up to Logic and I want to take my Reason synths with me.Propellerheads has always said that Reason was never [...]

On The Cusp of Reason 4

Hey!For all you music production nerds that read this blog, Propellerheads is now taking the wraps off of Reason 4.Looks like they’ve revamped the sequencer, added a groove tool, arppegiator, and of course – the Thor synth.Head over to their site to see full details. They’re looking for beta testers.Edit: Direct link to Reason 4 [...]

Signal Flow and Input Objects in Logic Pro

I’m not really an audio engineer, but having studied voice as an instrument I understand that most engineers like to put some light compression on vocals before they get recorded on tape/hard drive.

Thing is, having built my setup in the post 2000 era, I have no outboard gear. Everything I use is in the box. [...]

3 Things That Make It Clear That You Don’t Understand The Music Business

This anti-downloading argument irritates me. It’s a popular argument for those that advocate file-sharing, and it’s wrong for the following reasons:#1 – It assumes that the only people responsible for making the music is the bandIn fact, a crap-load of people were involved in bringing that music to you. First there was the AR person [...]

Well Camino, It Was Nice Using You For A Weekend

Camino version 1.5 came out last week. I had switched to Safari (again) a few months ago, but Camino 1.5 finally had spellcheck, Keychain integration, RSS detection, and inline searching. It’s inline searching was way ahead of Safari’s. So I switched back to Camino last week.

Camino has some CSS3 support, like multiple columns for lists. [...]