Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009 Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm Location: Det Fynske Musikkonservatorium, Koncertsal Islandsgade 2 500 Odense C Denmark Concert featuring works by Annette Ziegenmeyer, James Howard Young, Markus Zahnhausen, Bach, Van Eyck, Telemann, and others. In addition, the performers will be improvising their own works. This is the concert that will conclude a [...]

After two months of problems, I’ve finally figured out why my Alesis IO26 would die after 10 minutes of use with Logic Pro. It turns out that the device is very fussy – no surprise there. A call to a very helpful “Andy” at customer service got me going in the right direction. Thanks, Andy. [...]

I’ve discussed the great aka objects in another post that dealt with using the Sudden Motion Sensor of the Macbook to control a game of Pacman [link]. This post will deal with the aka.keyboard object and how to use it to add keystroke functionality to a Midi keyboard. This would be useful in situations where you [...]

MouseMusic2 is similar to MouseMusic, but it uses live or recorded audio files.  In order to use MouseMusic2, follow these steps: 1) Turn Audio on 2) Load sound file 3) Choose File type to save 4) Press Record and mess around 5) Turn Record off, your file has been saved As is the case with [...]

I first wrote the sounds for MouseMusic for the performance of a piece using color tracking with video camera.  The sounds were later adapted to a VST plugin as part of a learning experience for me on how to make plugins. Later on, I developed the whole concept into a standalone, and someone requested a [...]

Recently, a friend of mine asked about transposing or working with Finale files without needing to purchase the commercial version.  I figured, since I already did some of the legwork, I could make a post about it, so here goes: Finale Notepad 2008 gives you the ability to import and export Midi files, and to [...]