Category archives: Music
Bits and pieces of various musical projects that live here.
On Failing the RPM Challenge
(and why I’m still glad I tried) For the past month I have been participating in the RPM challenge, which in their words is, Record an album in 28 days, just because you can. What is considered to be… continue reading »
Amazing Jazz Guitar from Kevin O’Neil
It’s a shame when life gets in the way of your blogging. This has been the case with me ever since the holidays, but I’ll be back soon with some projects and interesting ideas to share. In the meantime,… continue reading »
Ardour and OSC Ideas
Ardour is a very inexpensive DAW software that runs on Mac OS and Linux though the use of the Jack Audio Connections Kit. It is essentially free, however a small donation will give Mac users the ability to save AU… continue reading »
Jasuto Sounds
A combination of being on vacation, and having the graphics card in my 15.4″ MacBook PRO Laptop Computer fail shortly after I returned, provided an unintentional opportunity to get to know my iPod Touch a little better. Jasuto gave me… continue reading »
Free Guitar Samples for Beatmaker
An assortment of random guitar samples, mostly of the funk variety, for use with Beatmaker on your iPhone. I wouldn’t recommend trying to make a song with these samples alone, although some can be used together, most of them are… continue reading »
Making a Jazz MixTape
Recently I sat down to do something I haven’t done in a long time. Make a for a friend. After hearing No Room For Squares by Hank Mobley, my friend admitted that she was much more knowledgeable on the subject… continue reading »
BeatMaker — Junky Sounds for Junky Beats
This Beatmaker Kit is my attempt at putting together a Lo-Fi collection of junky soundbits for rough noisy beats. Most of the sounds I used for this kit are from a collection of field recordings that I did years ago… continue reading »
BeatMaker Beats
I’ve been having entirely too much fun with this awesome iPhone/iPod Touch application by Intua. I put off buying BeatMaker for a long time because of the 19.99 price tag. When there are so many good music applications for much… continue reading »
MIDI Generating LFOs Audio Example
This is an early rough draft of a composition I started working on recently. It utilizes the Max/Msp patch that I wrote about in my first post on Midi Generating LFOs. At the end of that earlier post I listed… continue reading »