As many of you who read the blog no doubt know, I’ve been really busy working on material for my new live sets lately.  Here’s a quick video of some of the latest material from my uptempo set.  The track order has not been sorted yet, so some of the transitions are…. interesting  But really, that’s what this run through …

The longer I work on music, it seems the more ambitious my projects become. These days I’ve found I enjoy the challenge of structuring live sets, or complete albums more than working on solo songs (though I have plenty of those in the works too). As I’ve mentioned in the past, one of the great advantages of working on larger …

Well, summer’s here and that means the start of the festival season here in the US.  Lots of cool outdoor weekend long parties here in the Pacific Northwest, and once again I got asked to perform at Photosynthesis Festival.  This year I’ll be doing two sets it looks like, a downtempo/midtempo set in the H’art tent again, and a more …

Well, summer’s coming up fast and I’ve already got a couple gigs lined up that I’m really excited about this year.  I’ve been asked to play Photosynthesis again, this times perhaps doing two different sets over the weekend.  As readers of my blog will know, I’ve recently switched to using the Elektron Octatrack in place of a laptop and the APC40 …

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know about a pretty cool iOS app I have been using lately. I know I don’t normally post recommendations for apps in the blog, but this one I found especially useful.  If you have Logic and an iPad, this is a really easy to use Control Surface app that lets you control Logic …

Trying to review something like the Elektron Octatrack has turned out to be more challenging than I expected.  Mainly because it can be used in so many ways, it’s not easy to try and cover it from all angles.  Never the less, I’ll do my best, even if that means focusing more on the things that I personally use mine …

1. Why can’t I get my latency down to 0? Despite the wealth of information online about what latency is and how it affects computer-based musicians, it’s still the most common issue I see people struggling to come to grips with. Quite often it’s blamed for issues that have nothing really to do with latency, or people have unrealistic expectation …

8 Lies Left – Downtempo – 03-22-2012 New track I just wrapped up using the Elektron Octatrack.  Kind of a lo-fi chill, funky vibe on this one, and not too long either. The original samples were trimmed and picked using Ableton Live, then transferred to the Elektron Octatrack for arranging and mangling.  

In the past when I’ve released a new live set where I used the Machinedrum, I’ve always made the samples from the set available for download too.  Figured it was time to combine and organize all of those samples into one pack, as well as add some brand new samples I’ve recently prepped for the Machinedrum. While I was orginally …

  Throwing the questions back to the readers of my blog once again.  This time I’m curious, what’s you favorite part of the music making process?  What’s your least favorite part? As usual, I’ll post my answers after a few other people have chimed in.