Tag: Music

Thoughts on the Apogee Duet

My Apogee Duet Firewire audio interface arrived. Thoughts: It looks great. It's bigger than I thought it would be, but still a nice size. With it's simple controls and silver, rounded body, it looks right at home with my MacBook...

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Logic bug: Creating Apple Loops from a region

While following the exercise "Creating Blue Apple Loops" on page 262 of "Logic Pro 8 and Logic Express 8" by David Nahmani, I was running into some trouble. 1. Open Logic project file: "07 New Day". 2. Drag the Marquee tool...

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Finished “Logic Pro 8 and Logic Express 8” book

I had been working through the exercises in "Logic Pro 8 and Logic Express 8" by David Nahmani lately, mostly while on the shuttle bus to and from work (and yesterday on the VTA light rail on the way to SD West). I completed the...

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Musician’s Friend – Save up to $150 until March 4

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Audio interfaces

Ah, what audio interface to buy for doing some simple 2 channel recordings into my MacBook Pro? There's the Presonus Firebox ($300), which I borrowed from a friend. Sounds pretty good, although the preamp gain (45 dB) is not...

Music

Quick little jam with Logic Express

A few days ago I tried Logic Express for the first time and here's what came out of a few minutes of noodling with the drum loops and some of the guitar effect plugins. Marc messing around with Logic Express The drums are loops,...

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Musical weekend

This past weekend was quite a musical one for me. On Saturday, I went to a surprise birthday party for my old friend Nick that I played in a couple of bands with. The party was attended by several musicians who have played with...