its been a while

i keep wanting to post music i've made or links to a new myspace site that i'm contemplating but other items prevail and, about 5 failed post-beginnings later, here i am.

my latest efforts have been focused on learning how to use apple logic express 7 to track instrumentation. i've been doing the reading and research and coming up with some decent pieces of songs, but nothing complete. at this point, the tool still gets in the way, and like with ableton, until i get past that stage i find it hard to make music as i'd like.

i'm very comfortable with ableton right now. i'll probably end up using it with logic express since, much to my dismay, express doesn't have groove templating like pro does. ideally i would work in one app but re-wire might be necessary to get the groove templating (to tighten up drum pieces or create drum loops).

i really like logic as a while however. i like it a lot more than pro-tools but that's not saying much.

one of the major purchases since the last post, music-making-wise, has been bfd by fxpansion. its a pretty incredible midi drum library. you can create very realistic drum pieces with it. using it in conjunction with my roland spd-s and kd-8, i can come up with reasonable facsimiles of drum tracks, minus the talent and timing.

i hope to have some samples up soon.