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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 [...]

Chucho Valdes - Live Ponle La Clave online

( Jazz and Music and afro-cuban and audio and drumming and favorite music )

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 [...]

Free Explanation Album Online

( Music and drumming )

I put all of the 2005 Explanation album online. It plays when you visit the site and you can also download all of the mp3s.
http://theexplanation.com.
I played drums in the Explanation from 2003-2005 and recorded the first five tracks of this album.
Now that The Explanation’s over I’m in a new band, Samantha with former Exp guitarist [...]

Raul Pineda is my all-time favorite drummer

( Jazz and Music and drumming and virtuosos )

Call me a Raul Pineda fan.
I’ve been obsessed with Chucho Valdes’s track Ponle La Clave from Live at the Village Vanguard ever since I first heard an MP3 of it in college (mislabeled as ‘ponte la clave’). I later bought the album Live at the Village Vanguard, which is great, and so is Valdes’s similar [...]