Tag: Music software
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Keep Tracking
A great video and basically this is how I produced my early music tracks 30 years ago! I had a Yamaha Portasound 160 and later 590, but my first keyboard was very similar to the one in this video without the fun synth waves. That said, later I had OctaMED and I think a version…
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The rise of the holographic pop star
Twitter, blogosphere and the press is buzzing about 2Pac rising from the dead as a hologram at Coachella, but it’s not a new phenomenon. In Japan they have totally virtual stars now touring as holograms – here’s Hatsune Miku in 2010 performing in front of a massive crowd. She’ll never stop being 16, she’ll never…
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Guitar Hero Hero! DJ Hero ‘no comment’…
Checking out what MC Lars is upto nowadays (loved that Screamo track back in the day) and after the disappointment that ‘Bein Green’ wasn’t a Kermit cover (boo!) I found this gem about the perils of Guitar Hero (this one goes out to Scott formerly of The Night Nurse Show who is a real GH…
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Grandad, what was it like making music back in the day?
Cheetah Specdrum!!! I still have mine, and my Spectrum and 2 Amigas. Yes this is how you had to create music back in the day, although I have to say The RAM Music Machine on the Amstrad (or other computers) rocked more than the AMS – great for no additional hardware but you were stuck…