Holiday Sales for iPad Music Apps

Posted by on Dec 22, 2011 | 0 comments

If you are interested in creating music on an iPad, the Holidays are a great time to be looking for new apps. There are a lot of great sales going on right now, but here are some noteworthy ones. Animoog for iPad is on sale for $9.99 (normally $29.99) Animoog for iPhone is on sale for $0.99 (launch special) I often use Animoog as a perfect example of how iPads are becoming legitimate performance tools. The sound, interface, and ability to customize sound easily rivals apps that would cost hundreds of dollars on a PC. It’s a steal at...

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Geosynthesizer

Posted by on Dec 18, 2011 | 0 comments

My first three videos, demonstrating Geo Synthesizer for iPad, a great midi controller and instrument. More to come…. Featured Programs Geo Synthesizer – Jordan Rudess: Wizdom Music, LLC MidiBridge – Audeonic Apps SampleTank – IK Multimedia Geo Synthesizer controlling SampleTank via Midi Bridge – Part 1 Geo Synthesizer controlling Sampletank via Midi Bridge – Part 2 Celtic Melody – Layered Sounds using Geo Synthesizer and Samplewiz Description from the iTunes Store: Geo Synthesizer is a musical...

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Why Do We Do What We Do

Posted by on Mar 3, 2011 | 0 comments

Why do we do what we do? What is it about music that drives us to work and work and work? I have a day job, I have a family to support, a few precious hours to myself every evening. It’s not always fun, or something that I have energy for, yet I still drag myself down here, power up the keyboard… spend long hours reading and learning about all these tools I’ve amassed over the last ten years of my life. There are no acoustically treated walls here, only the hum of the air vents behind me, the white noise from a baby monitor...

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ArtLifeMind Photoshop Tutorial

Posted by on Jan 8, 2011 | 0 comments

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I just posted a beginner’s Photoshop tutorial at ArtLifeMind, detailing how to turn a color photo into a pencil sketch. Hopefully, this will be the first of many. The tutorial also includes a YouTube walkthrough, which you can view above, or in HD on the ArtLifeMind Youtube page. Visit ArtLifeMind for the complete tutorial, and downloadable files that you can use while working...

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Web Series

Posted by on Jan 4, 2011 | 0 comments

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  The Web Series was inspired by a series of interface images that I created for a digital wallpaper site, dreamingtheweb.com.  While there’s no great meaning behind them, most of the images incorporated a fractal background with 3D faces or figures. ...

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Mandalas

Posted by on Jan 4, 2011 | 0 comments

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The Mandala series was designed for Dreaming the Web.com, a digital artwork and wallpaper website. The general the

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