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Turn Wii Rock Band Instruments into Real Instruments with Junxion

( Apple and Electronica and Gear and Logic 8 and Music and New Instruments and audio and diy and drumming and originals and wii )

Today I figured out how to easily turn the rock band drum set for Wii into a MIDI drum controller:

I did this with Junxion, a program that allows you to transform USB and wireless game controller input into MIDI data. I’ve seen demos of other MIDI rock band instruments online, but with the Wii instruments [...]

Find tuplets below the staff in Finale files via music XML

( Apple and finale and notation and originals )

In the orchestration class I’m taking we have some very strict guidelines on how our sheet music should be formatted. I’m writing some scripts to detect notational errors in my scores based on these guidelines.
The first one I wrote detects if tuplets are marked below the staff. Our conductor requires us to have all tuplets [...]

Map .rex loops to the keyboard in Logic 8 - easier method

( Apple and Logic 8 and Music and audio )

My friends Nathaniel, Charlie and I figured out a better way to map rex files into Logic using EXS 24 instead of Ultrabeat:
-Create a new EXS 24 instrument, open EXS 24 and click on edit.
-Click on Instrument > Recycle Convert > Slice Loop and Add [...]

Map .rex loops to the keyboard in Logic 8

( Apple and Electronica and Logic 8 and audio )

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There is an easier way of automatically mapping rex files to the EXS 24 instead of Ultrabeat.
Here is a fairly tedious method of converting a Recycle Rex file into Ultrabeat in Logic so that you can play the loop mapped to your keyboard like you can with Dr. Rex in Reason:
-Create an audio track
-Drag the [...]

Graphically Time Stretch Regions in Logic

( Apple and Logic 8 and audio )

In Logic 8 you can now graphically time stretch audio files without changing their pitch. Hold down option and drag the end of a file to compress or extend it. This is so much easier than trying to use the time machine manually and trying to figure out the math transformation to get what you [...]

Applecare’s support worsened

( Apple )

I just wanted to note that applecare sucks more now. Last year I called them and they were very helpful at like 10 PM on a Sunday night, now they’re only open monday - friday 6 AM - 6 PM. Their support page also does not have a phone number you can call or a [...]