Getting myself organized

2010-03-21 1:56 pm 2 Comments

I have blogged about this topic before. My tool chain these days consists of iTunes, Quicktags and beaTunes. I use beaTunes to clean up typos and unintended differences in names, especially in stuff I download from my music blog aggregator. I also use the key detection and then switch the keys to camelot notation by sorting ...

MIDI fighting on the Launchpad

2010-02-12 6:59 pm 2 Comments

I really have huge admiration for the MIDI Fighter project over on DJTT. The fact that everything is open source, the fact that they are wrecking their brain over trying to push the boundaries of digital Djing is just very inspiring. But even still I decided to go with the Launchpad mainly because it also has ...

Things are uhm happening!

2010-01-26 9:42 pm 4 Comments

I guess I have stopped dipping .. instead I just dove right in. Last weekend I started my very first track, albeit assembled by various loops that came bundled with my newly bought Launchpad and a few sounds that are available for free for the Kore Player and a few audio effects in Ableton. Feel free ...

Dipping toes into production

2010-01-17 4:07 pm No Comments

Before christmas I just decided to play around with my LPD8 and Ableton Live Intro (free upgrade all the way from Live Lite 6 bundled with my Keystation Pro 88 keyboard). The result of a few hours learning the basics of Ableton was that I had fun, oh and a short music track. So I decided ...

DJTT 3.0 mapping vision

2009-11-29 6:59 pm No Comments

Ean recently announced that work on the 3.0 mapping by DJTT for their very own VCI-100SE is commencing. He started things off my a survey of how current features are being used and where people want thing to go in the future. I guess the main theme Ean has in mind for now is pushing effect ...