Thursday, July 26, 2018

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Isabella & Logan drumming in Garageband

Isabella & Logan drumming in Garageband showing off that yes you can indeed use more than 1 smart drummer in a song and vary settings on the fly to get a delicious beat down. I really hope they add the ability to have drummers use other Kits espescially the Taiko Drums from Japan.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Album plus a single August 2nd

 
Everyone who has been reading this blog of late will not be suprised that we have recently gotten back into music production in a BIG way. We have been recording and doing releases on Youtube here and there but its been building up to this announcement......
 
Ready or not here we come .....
 
On August 2nd 2018 our 11 track album titled Tales from a Brooklyn Mad Man drops along with a single titled Taiko Drums. They will be available on Spotify, iTunes Music, Google Music, Amazon Music etc etc
We hope you enjoy listening to this music as much as we enjoyed creating it. Thanks for all your support, you guys rock!

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Desktop Garageband on an iPadPro using Splashtop

Desktop Garageband on an iPadPro using Splashtop streamer and the IOS app.This is pretty amazing for a $4.99 app I must say. I did not test this extensively. I even tried it on a old iMac from 2006 that I’m running Windows 7 on and it works even on that tho Ableton plus the Splashtop Streamer coupled with its 2 Gig RAM is not a happy combo. The Mac has 16 gigs in it that I did this on. I totally forgot to try running the Mac with the Monitor off to see if I could run as a Headless server. This system is essentially your own Cloud computing system. Access your Mac and Windows PC from practically any mobile device or computer.
Download the Splashtop Personal app for your iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows tablet, Windows Phone, and of course Mac or Windows PC.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

French Roast

French Roast Funky little ditty created on the iPadPro using a Launchpad Pro controller and using my super cool $11 Crystal Ball DJ Light to provide the visuals.

Monday, July 16, 2018

Friday, July 13, 2018

Novation Launchpad Pro LOVE!

 
Ok, so we recently got the #Novation #LaunchpadPro , it can be pretty expressive. So much so that my Lust for a #Roli #Seaboard Block no longer exists. I’ll try to make a video soon playing #guitar #music via it . The vibrato it can do is soooooooo sweet. So far I’ve really only tested it in the fabulous Open Source FREE #AudioKit Synth One and of course #Apple #Garageband ...... on an #iPad my jaw dropped. It’s that good!

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Launch me into the Future Trap

Launch me into the Future Trap created on the iPadPro with the Novation Launchpad app and Launchpad MK2 MIDI Controller connected via the Lightning to USB3 Adapter using some of the Royalty Free Loops that Novation includes with the IOS app.

Thursday Night Funk Jam

Thursday Night Funk Jam created in the Novation Launchpad app on my iPadPro using Novation’s Royalty Free Loops and just having a bit of fun with the Launchpad MK2.

Friday, July 6, 2018

Thursday Night Funk Jam

Thursday Night Funk Jam created in the Novation Launchpad app on my iPadPro using Novation’s Royalty Free Loops and just having a bit of fun with the Launchpad MK2



Monday, July 2, 2018

Using the iOS GridInstrument app with External MIDI Synths

Have any of you fine folks tried the #GridInstrument app in IOS with your #Launchpad?


This is a tutorial that shows you how to use the iOS GridInstrument app with external MIDI synthesizers.

GridInstrument is an app that turns your iPhone or iPad into a playable grid (much like the Ableton Push or scale-mode on a Launchpad Pro).

It has a simple sound generator built in, but where it really shines is in its ability to output MIDI data. It has Audiobus 3 support so that you can send MIDI to other apps. It also has MIDI out support so that you can send button presses to outboard hardware or even to a Network MIDI connection.

But the coolest feature of the app by far is that you can hook up your Ableton Launchpad controller directly to it (using the Apple Camera Connection Kit) and it will let you play your Launchpad like a musical instrument.