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 [...]
Hmm, this is fun, I’ve added a new ’song ripoffs’ category.
Musiq’s “Girl Next Door”:
Beck’s “Debra”:
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Found the sample, it’s Ramsey Lewis’s My Love For You.
I recently heard Fort Minor’s Where’d You Go and thought it was pretty powerful and effective, until I realized it was the exact same song as Where Is The Love by The Black Eyed Peas. Same chord progression, same downtempo well produced beats, same simple female vocal chorus, same good slow rapping that overlaps with [...]
Good god do I want this thing.
More videos here: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/112
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m compiling a list of great jazz pianists that moan when they play. I wonder if it’s a stylistic choice, or some artistic savant thing that trips when you hit a certain level of genius. Anyway so far I have:
Erroll Garner
Keith Jarrett
Oscar Peterson
Bud Powell
Soso.com linked to my Bach Remix and it got downloaded 21628 times on December 23rd…It killed my bandwidth. I also get a lot of traffic each month from Baidu and Sogou for Beautiful Dreamer and The DnB Concerto. China must have much better mp3 crawlers than the US, and a larger online music fanbase.
Listeners from [...]
Now that I’m realizing how easy it is to share music via embedded youtube videos, I’ll start discussing music:
Here is a great video of Chucho Valdes playing one of my all time favorite songs, Ponle La Clave. Here is the second half:
I skipped to that so you wouldn’t miss the awesome drumming. But here is [...]