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Spectrasonics Trillian Is Finally Here!

By Big Al on Friday, October 30th, 2009 | No Comments

My “go to” virtual instrument for bass for years has been Spectrasonics Trilogy. Nothing beats it, hands down. The Scarbee bases are nice, but Trilogy stills tops it in most instances in my book. However, if you can have both, so be it. Then the Intel Macs came along and Trilogy didn’t really work on [...]

Google Launches Music Search With Lala, Pandora, Rhapsody, imeem & MySpace

By Big Al on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

This just in from the Technology department at the Los Angeles Times: Google this afternoon began rolling out its widely rumored music feature, which lets users search for and listen to entire songs for free. The search engine banded together with several music service sites that are responsible for streaming the songs on Google’s search [...]

Weird Al Yankovic In The Studio – BOO-YAH!

By Big Al on Monday, October 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment

A behind-the-scenes look at “Weird Al” Yankovic and his band in the studio during the making of the “Straight Outta Lynwood” album. If you were hired to play on one of his sessions I’ll bet it would be one of the more challenging assignments of your career; loads of fun, but challenging. (Thanks to @Gilligan204)

Soundation Studio, The Web Based Sequencer

By Big Al on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Here’s another move towards music creation in the cloud. Soundation Studio is the web based sequencer that enables you to make music, ringtones and audio clips directly from the internet without downloading any software. This beta version includes over 400 royalty free audio loops, 9 different effects, track automation, basic loop editing, loop audition, master [...]

How To Change The Tempo Of A Loop In Pro Tools

By Big Al on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | No Comments

This is an example of how to smoothly change a loop’s tempo in Pro Tools. Follow this example and your loop will conform to any tempo changes you make in your Pro Tools session. In this example, Elastic Audio and the TCE Tool are used. Click Here To View More Pro Tools Gear