Quick review of both the magic and the warts of Positive Grid's Bias-X. We chase a single sound a couple of different times using the new AI feature, along the way finding out where Bias X still has far to go. The sound we are chasing is a
This comedy sketch, to me, is the explanation of my partner, Monisha Das Gupta's new book title – All of Us or None – on the antideportation movement and the turn away from the deserving/undeserving binary favored in mainstream approaches and media.
MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE). Anyone use it? I have some guitar synth stuff that uses it, mostly in Pigments, a synth we also haven't talked about much. For me it is really the only interesting thing in MIDI 2.0 spec. Guitar hexaphonic pickups – used to drive thousands
File under: The AI says you are being paranoid, Jim. This morning I was relaxing a bit while my partner made some nice coffee (AeroPress). Don't worry, I made the first batch for us; I'm not slacking. Then the kettle whistled in the other room, my
Trying to get the iPad to obey: just simple guitar-to-midi and two bespoke controllers to play the through a guitar amp with fx and a couple of synths inside a looper. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so this morning. I got everything but the looper working for about
Saw this yesterday: which is a lot like my Space Tension/Qi project I have been developing since 2007. I reached out to the guy, and he was aware of my work. While they seem to do the same thing, they go about it in quite different ways. His tracks
...as in the decentralizaed web. Let's see how we do.
Take a look at this working draft of my (Rich Rath's) take on AI. The title says it all, once you understand it is a command rather than an aspiration: Hope You Find What You're Looking for. I know, everyone has a hot take on AI,
BPM
Way Music is working on a plugin environment, in development for two decades, that frees the musicker from the bonds of the BPM, putting your groove back in the beat.
history
Did you know the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free anyone? Enslaved African people had been freeing themselves and heading north, offering to serve Union forces, since the beginning off the Civil War and before.
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