For all the time I ve been spending in the home studio messing around with music production, I really haven t written any blog articles about the topic in a very long time. So let s start out with one of the essential tools of the trade. One of the difficulties while mixing/mastering music is making sure you re
There s a piece of functionality missing from Ableton Live. Say you ve got an external device who s knobs and other controls you re using as input to Ableton Live through the MIDI learn functionality. This works great for controlling things like volume levels, effects parameters, etc. But oddly enough you can t use this method to control program
This is probably the most common harmonic mixing transition corresponding to one counter-clockwise rotation on the circle of fifths. In this case, the first track is in Bb minor phrygian, and the second track is Eb minor phrygian. So the root key has shifted up by 5 semitones. I call this a parallel interval
There s a concept in musical set theory called complement, where the set of notes is given as the set of all notes which are not included in the original set. Applied to a musical mode, there may be multiple complements. In this case, I ve chosen the complement whose root is a tritonic interval (6 semitones)
There s an awesome utility called F.lux which automatically tweaks your monitor colors throughout the day, to make your display easier on the eyes. The problem is, it doesn t work with fullscreen games, by default. Luckily, there is a cool utility called Color Clutch which was created as a way to get around the fact that
Recently, myself and a friend did the Half-dome hike in Yosemite, CA. The last bit of this hike requires the use of cables, to reach the summit. In the past, this area has become very crowded, and they ve since began to use a lottery process to divvy out permits, thus limiting traffic. You must have
Recently, I left for about a week on vacation. After coming home, I noticed this PC had crashed. After restarting, it crashed again an hour later. After restarting, it crashed again an hour later. After checking the hot-swap bay on my Corsair 800D (bypassing it by connecting direct), re-arranging the power cables to daisy chain
I coded this AIM bot, quite a while ago, which lets you add/remove/search bookmarks. It was written using the C interface to Amazon s SimpleDB and the AIM SDK. It s pretty basic. Just send an IM to whutsnu on AIM, and he ll reply with the list of commands. The export command hasn t worked for quite a while,