Monday, July 2, 2012
You Rock guitar Midi Controller
The other night I finally had the chance to sit down and test out my new You Rock Guitar as a MIDI controller via the USB connection to my laptop. I would have to see I was totally impressed with how responsive it was in controlling the various VSTi's loaded in my DAW. I specifically enjoyed using the Piano One VSTi while playing along to one of my latest songs. Piano One has a more realistic sound compared to Acoustica Classical Piano or Grand Piano. The ability to quickly cut tracks for virtually any imaginable instrument without having to learn how to play that specific instrument is Priceless. The YouRock guitar should be in every musicians arsenal.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Tracking Bass guitar for "Through the night" & 3rd Bass.VST gear review.
I spent time last night working out the bass line to my latest song project, "Through the night". I had recently discovered a Bass amp simulator plug in called 3rd Bass from http://www.techiepalar.org/3rd-bass-free-bass-vst-amp-simulator-plugin/. I love the sound of the simulator and its gonna be my go to plug in for tracking bass. Check it out.
Friday, June 22, 2012
True Fire Guitar lesson
Check out my Lick Of The Month: Fingers On Fire - Audio Guitar Lessons originally published by Guitar Player Magazine 2001.
Recording Progress of " Through the Night"
Overtime hours at work have slowed down progress of recording my latest song. Yesterday I was able to setup my new interface but not without running into the typical issues of installing drivers. The drivers that shipped with my Lexicon Alpha interface were causing my CPU to freeze when I set the audio I/O to ASIO. After searching the web for solutions I found out that Lexicon had updated its drivers and then downloaded them from, http://www.lexiconpro.com/en-US/softwares/alpha-driver. This did the trick and it works like a charm. I even optimized my CPU by shutting of Windows Media Services which were causing some audio drops. Now I don't have to open Resource Monitor and manually stop the WMI process everytime I use my DAW.
With all this in place I can now start working out vocals, bass & whatever else my crazy mind feels may fit.
