Native Instruments has an intensive KORE demo on tour and last Saturday, they launched from Recombinant Media Labs in SF. Richard Devine along with NI Product Specialist, Josh Fielstra presented a fairly intensive 4 hour lecture about this new system. I figured I would drop in and say hello and see what KORE […]

If you haven’t heard about Real World Remixed then you have to go check it out. Real World Records is giving people the opportunity to remix tracks from their artists, including Peter Gabriel’s classic, Shock the Monkey.
The Sample packs include individual tracks broken down into stems, so you can hear each element of the […]

Can’t live with it… Can’t live without it
I resisted upgrading my operating system to 10.4.6 for months, mainly because everything was running smoothly under 10.4.5. Once again, I tempted fate and performed the OS update. Naturally, things started running a little odd. Peak 4 was stalling and crashing, which forced my […]

Line 6 Reason Workshop
Friday, June 16, at Robotspeak, Hayden Bursk will be giving a free Reason clinic from 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Details: Line 6 in the Studio: See how Line 6 and Propellerhead Software can help to unlock your creative potential either on stage or in the studio. Product specialist Hayden Bursk will show […]

The Props have released a much needed update to ReWire which makes integration with host applications much smoother. Logic Pro users can sympathize with the excruciatingly slow launch and load times associated with Reason and ReWire, not to mention the occasional hang-up when closing out the ReWire slave application. Finally this issue […]

Hayden Bursk Last night i caught the Reason 3.0 US tour at the Guitar Center in San Francisco where i had a chance to meet with Timothy Self (Propellerhead Director of US Markets) and Hayden Bursk, Propellerhead Reason Product Specialist with Line 6, who is touring the states and spreading the gospel of Reason. Hayden […]

Celemony has really dropped the price of Melodyne SE, so much so that I had to finally pick up a copy. All the things people have said about it are true. It really is a revolutionary piece of technology.
I was hoping for a little better rewire implementation, but it’s quite simply a straight synchronization with […]

It’s been a rough week trying to juggle things around. This year, my normal obligations have me quite busy, and it’s been pretty tough trying to switch modes from work to music projects to writing.
The main project occupying my time, has been the revised second edition of Power Tools for Reason. I keep thinking […]

Metasynth 4.0 for MacOS X is finally available…finally!

TXT:: I managed to venture out to a SF Bay Area hip hop show last night. My friends at Paraphan Records had a record release party at Kimo’s in SF. It was nice turn out with four live acts lined up who have tracks featured on the debut compliation release, Electric Halo. Pictured is the […]

TXT:: I received an interesting e-mail from Thomas Alker. He’s written a little shareware application called Caps2MIDI. It basically turns your Mac’s Keyboard into a MIDI keyboard for use with your MIDI applications. It’s handy for PowerBook Jockeys who want to trigger notes and samples from a Reason Sampler without carrying around a controller. I’ve […]

TXT:: I discovered something interesting recently with the AMIII card and Reason and the Digi 5.01 drivers. If you have an external digital clock source connected to the S/PDIF inputs, set the Digidesign control panels to synchronize to the digital inputs, and the Reason CPU usage drops dramatically when set to Sound Manager Output. It […]