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I have made a recent addition to my “samples” page with a custom-created edit of the Starship Farragut Movie I worked on recently. The demo has about 6 minutes of highlights, musically speaking, from the film that I think demonstrate some different styles pretty well. Please take a look and drop me a line with any comments.
However, I’m not completely thrilled by the format I used to embed it. Quicktime compression looks fantastic and I think does a nice job of compressing to a small size and still looking (and more importantly for me) and sounding good. However, it is far more awkward for the end user than the flash-style format popularized by youtube and google video.  Hence, I decided to use Google Video to host it, though it most certainly lowers the audio quality.
Enjoy!

I recently noticed that Bias has upgraded their industry-standard two-track editor, Peak Pro, to version 6! Right now you can pre-order an upgrade for $149 if you have version 5. I checked out the feature list and have selected a few highlights for you below that I see as especially promising:

• Perpetual Loop DSP: ensures perfect “beat-free” sustained loops on monophonic sources. Ideal for creating instrument sample libraries. (more…)

For a long time I have known about the Mackie Control Universal. I have seen it in the Sweetwater catalog for years, as well as in various pictures of “pro studios”. As I’ve been getting busier and busier with more music and sound design jobs, I have been looking into it more and more to see if it could really speed up my workflow.

With a little extra cash in the bank, I made the leap. As fortune would have it, the folks at Sweetwater actually even had a b-stock available to save me some cost. Setup was quick and easy with simply a power plug and two MIDI cables running into my trusty little MOTU audio interface. Of course, being all excited about it and everything I somehow forgot to plug BOTH cables into the interface (though both were plugged into the Mackie). After some cursing at myself, followed by laughter at my stupidity, all was working very well with Logic Pro. Apple even provided a handy reference guide for what the myriad of buttons on the Mackie Control do in Logic which was very handy since I didn’t quite understand the meaning of ALL of the buttons right away!

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