Had a quiet enough week commission wise so I took the opportunity to get a decent bita work done on the upcoming (for a good half year now) online store. Its nearly ready for uploading to the live site, I just have the individual product…
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Since getting back to work after the festives I started in on a new series of short courses via alexanderpublishing.com. The series is based around the use of Athur Langes Spectrotone chart in the study of orchestration. Basically every instrument register (and in some cases…
Worked on an unusual commission during the week; a mock Vinyl LP cover for a client in Limerick. The briefing keywords included ‘compass, contrasting manic with logic/stillness, humour and Disco/Chic era’). I messed about with melting compasses ala Dali abit and abstract chaos’ish patterns but…
I had hummed and hawed over upgrading to the latest version of Cubase but after installing and testing it out during the week I’m glad I did. As I’d read in reviews the new GUI is abit of a shock at first but the enhanced…
During the week I started work on drawing up a new orchestral MIDI template in preparation for getting back into regular composing/orchestrating in the new year. Blending sections from various sample libraries being the best practice I had considered picking up a copy of East…
Picked me up a bargain copy of Cubase 7 via the KVRaudio market place forums last weekend. 50% off the regular price incl. a few expansion packs which works out far cheaper than upgrading from verison 5. Yesterday at the Music Production Show in London…
During the past week I started laying out the notation for Black Crow via the Cubase score editor. As I have’nt used the score editor for quite some time it took me a while to figure out how to do a few things again such…
Having gotten to the the last two chapters of the Counterpoint course I started a few weeks back I realized its going to take a great deal of practice for the majority of the techniques to sink in. The instructor reckons on allowing about one…
Despite having throw up a heap of acoustic treatment in the studio over the last seven odd years I’ve never gotten around to properly measuring the frequency response of the room itself. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for ages having picked up…
