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Create a full MIDI Drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band Drums

( Gear and New Instruments and audio and drumming and originals and video and wii )

Here is a demonstration of using both the Guitar Hero World Tour Drums for Wii and the Rock Band Drums for Wii to create a full MIDI Drumset:

Camille, the programmer of OSCulator, got his program working with the Velocity-sensitive Guitar Hero drums. Download OSCulator here:
http://www.osculator.net/wp/
I’m still using JunXion to receive MIDI from the Rock Band [...]

Video Demo of the incredible iPhone iGOG Mic Trigger Mode

( Apple and Gear and New Instruments and audio and drumming and iPhone and multitouch and science )

I recently saw a demo of the incredible new iGOG drum trigger program on Create Digital Music. This is the best drum app for the iPhone I’ve ever seen, because it processes the microphone input at the same time you’re playing to determine velocity. The drums are multi-sampled and hitting different areas of the pads [...]

Thesis Score Head Case Available Online

( Music and audio and originals and video )

My MFA orchestral thesis score for the short film Head Case is available online. Download the tracks here: Vine and Ring Themes, HC Opening, Harold Emerges, Garden Alarm, and Tools Theme.
The session was an amazing experience, recorded by LA’s top musicians on the same scoring stage that they record Lost and Fringe, at L.A. Sound [...]

A Man’s Image Feature Finished, One Track Online

( Music and audio and originals and video )

I’ve finished the score for Carolyn Okafor’s independent feature, A Man’s Image.

One track is available for download, A Man’s Image Opening.
The movie will be screened at the DuSable Museum of African American History on October 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM.

Video Blog: Using Guitar Hero World Tour Wii Drums as MIDI Controllers on OS X with OSCulator

( Gear and Music and audio and diy and originals )

Ever since I heard that Guitar Hero World Tour’s drums were velocity sensitive, I wanted to try using them as MIDI controllers.
Thanks to this post by Camille, developer of OSCulator, I finally got the Wii World Tour drums to work with velocity sensitivity. Unfortunately, as the video demonstrates, they don’t work too well. Either they’re [...]

Huge Improvements to the Flash Music Player – Autoresume, Volume, Shuffle, and more

( Music and The Web and audio and originals )

I upgraded the XSPF player to a hugely improved version I found here:
http://www.boutell.com/xspf/
Now, as you surf the site, the music will auto-resume to where you left off. Also, if you stop the music, it remains stopped as you surf other pages or come back to my site later.
The enhanced XSPF player also allowed me to [...]

No file or output access to iPhone MP3 library – 3.0 SDK still too restrictive

( Apple and audio and bad ideas and iPhone and multitouch )

So the iPhone 3.0 SDK does allow you to play music from the iPod library from within your application. However, you do not have file access to the mp3s, nor can you control the output other than the standard iPod player controls, i.e. play, stop, skip, and volume. This means you can’t add effects, you [...]

Fixed Flash Music Player

( Music and audio )

I fixed several songs that were stuttering and changing pitch in the flash music player. It turns out several of the mp3s were 48k instead of 44.1k, which were incompatible with the player. Thanks to Phil for notifying me.

Syndicated floating flash music player available

( Music and The Web and audio and originals )

I’m going to be including the floating flash player with my music on some other sites I’ve made. If you’re interested, here is code that you can paste in that will display the floating flash player on your site and remotely fetch the most recent music from my site:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://jordanbalagot.com/float.js”></script>
<script>
if (NS4) {document.write(‘<LAYER NAME=”floatlayer” LEFT=”‘+floatX+’” [...]

Peeling it Off Now Online, Official Selection at Slamdance

( Music and The Web and audio and originals and video )

Matthew Singletary’s Peeling it Off is now available for viewing online, and also made the Slamdance film festival:
http://www.slamdance.com/videos/products/742.html
I did all of the music in the film except for the R&B song.
Please check it out, and if you like it, vote for it in the festival! Voting registration is free.
Thanks for watching and congrats Matt!