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 […]
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 […]
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.
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) […]
I’ve finally implemented a working new flash mp3 player. It floats in the bottom right corner of all of the pages on this site and highlights my more recent work. On the home page, it plays automatically, and on my blog it starts paused. It uses the excellent XSPF web music player and this floating […]
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 […]
So my Logic hack for turning a MIDI knob into a sustain control worked, but limited me to playing with only one hand. This works better: Using Junxion, I mapped a bunch of buttons on my game controller to MIDI controller 64, and put the gamepad on the floor to play it.
Wow, I read a tip somewhere on the Vienna forums that if you held down control when you launched Logic it would disable Core Audio, and you could open up a project and troubleshoot your plugins that way by disabling them and then re-enabling core audio. That’s a big help (especially since Vienna runs so […]
I have a MIDI keyboard that I’m using that doesn’t have a mod wheel and doesn’t have a sustain pedal. However it does have some other knobs that send MIDI data. One of these knobs is assignable on my keyboard, but the other is not. I wondered if I could use one knob for the […]
This weekend I wrote and combined some custom statistics software that broadcasts activity onto my site. I’ve been getting lots of direct mp3 traffic from China thanks to the music search engine Soso. I wanted to highlight that activity as well as try to encourage users to browse the rest of my site. I also […]