SoundTempest – News about the Music Industry

Anyone who’s interested in the music industry should look at musician and OCRemix judge zircon’s blog about the music industry: SoundTempest. The goal of SoundTempest is to be a place that collects news about the recording industry, instead of having interested readers look at various media sources like they do currently.

Live Setup, Part 3 – Effects

In Part 2, I talked about the sustain pedal. Now, I’m going to talk about getting various effects set up.

Live Setup, Part 2 – Sustain Pedal

In Part 1, I explained how to get the instruments set up in your DAW. This time, I’m going to talk about how to deal with the sustain pedal.

Live Setup, Part 1 – DAWs, MIDI Channels, and VSTs

I described my live setup in this post; now I’m going to talk about how to get a similar setup and what I did to get mine working.

Rhodes! Finally!

Anyone who really knows their music might recognize a common theme between the four songs in my “Now Listening To” for today’s posts: they all feature the Rhodes. I’m in a Rhodes mood because I finally got my copy of NI Elektrik Pianos last night (I ordered it nearly two months ago). I’ve got a couple remix ideas that were depending on a good Rhodes sound that I can now get to work on. Not to mention it’s really fun to play a Rhodes with vibrato turned on with a wah pedal and phaser and distortion. NI Elektrik Pianos also has a good Clavinet and Wurlitzer instrument, but it’s undoubtedly the Rhodes I’ll be spending more time with.