Logic Pro 9 Essential Training [video]
Mar 9th
I’m very excited to announce the release of Logic Pro 9 Essential Training (Scott Hirsch)
to the lynda.com library of tutorials. I know that you will enjoy this title. Scott ‘knows’ the program and is an excellent instructor. Here’s the course description:
In Logic Pro 9 Essential Training, Scott Hirsch explains how to harness the power and flexibility of Logic Pro, Apple’s popular songwriting software, to record, edit, and mix music. The course includes instruction on how to compose in Logic Pro, and spend more time being creative and less time dealing with technical uncertainties. Scott focuses on setting up a workspace, recording with both live performers and digital instruments, editing and arranging, and mixing and mastering a composition. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
- Navigating the Logic Pro interface
- Setting up for recording
- Enabling multiple inputs for a live performance
- Exploring Logic’s arsenal of virtual instruments
- Working with powerful MIDI editors and sequencers
- Beatmapping, varispeed, and tempo adjustment in the timeline
- Creating and re-using Apple loops
- Editing music: Moving and snapping regions, cutting and looping
- Transcribing a score and creating lead sheets in the Score Editor
- Syncing with video
- Mixing audio and creating dynamic mixes
- Understanding surround sound requirements
- Exporting a song from Logic Pro
Logic Pro 9 Essential Training
Lucy & Ethel on a Chocolate Candy Assembly Line [video]
Mar 9th
Lucy and Ethel are on the chocolate candy assembly line…and things get way too fast and crazy!
There’s some life lessons to be learned from this but . . . why ruin a funny moment.
12 Curious Facts About the Oscars
Mar 9th
Oddee.com – I’m not big on Oscar fever. In fact, awards shows are boring. that said, I thought these facts were mildly interesting.
1. Hurt Locker set record as the lowest grossing movie to win Best Movie.
2. Kevin O’Connell set record as the unluckiest nominee.
3. Brando and De Niro won Oscar for playing the same role.
[read all at Oddee.com]
10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein
Mar 9th
Albert Einstein has long been considered a genius by the masses. He was a theoretical physicist, philosopher, author, and is perhaps the most influential scientists to ever live.
Einstein has made great contributions to the scientific world, including the theory of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the prediction of the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, and the quantum theory of a monatomic gas which predicted Bose–Einstein condensation, to name a few of his scientific contributions.
Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”
He’s published more than 300 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific works. Einstein is considered the father of modern physics and is probably the most successful scientist there ever was. [via Dumb Little Man]
Are Macs Really Cheaper To Manage Than PCs?
Mar 9th
The survey found that Macs were cheaper in six of seven computer management categories: troubleshooting, help desk calls, system configuration, user training and supporting infrastructure (servers, networks and printer). Nearly half of the respondents cited software licensing fees as roughly the same for both platforms.
A whopping 65 percent of respondents said it costs less to troubleshoot Macs than PCs, 19 percent said they spent the same on both computers, and only 16 percent said they spent less to manage PCs than Macs.
Even more impressive, a majority of the respondents citing the low cost of Macs in nearly all categories said Macs were more than 20 percent cheaper to manage than PCs. [via CIO.com]
5 Tips For Building Your Email List [video]
Mar 8th
Music 3.0 – Your email list is a major component for marketing to your fanbase. It’s widely overlooked since most artists believe that their Facebook friends and Twitter followers are enough, but you email list allows you to reach out and personally connect with the fans and control you message while you’re doing it.
A well thought out email blast allows you to do the following:
1) Engage your fan on a more 1 to 1 basis
2) Design the communication without the constraints of a social network
3) Add a call-to-action
This makes it easier to inform, market and sell to your fan in a manner that the true fan (superfan, uberfan, Tribal member – whatever you want to call them) enjoys, if you do it well.
Here’s a short video about the best way to harvest those valuable email addresses.
Read more: http://music3point0.blogspot.com/#ixzz0hegalnPB
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Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
The State Of The Internet Video [video]
Mar 8th
Here’s an excellent video that’s a fun watch that depicts the current state of the Internet. Get ready for some staggering numbers. Found this on Music 3.0.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
Hans Zimmer scoring The Dark Knight [video]
Mar 8th
Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including Hollywood blockbusters such as the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Gladiator, The Lion King, The Da Vinci Code, Sherlock Holmes and The Dark Knight.
Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios, and works with other composers through the company which he founded, Remote Control Productions.[1] His work is notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements.
5 Minutes Can Make A Difference
Mar 8th
You rock
This is deceptive.
You don’t rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it’s a self-defeating goal. You can’t do it.
No, but you might rock five minutes a day.
Five minutes to write a blog post that changes everything, or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes someone. Five minutes to invent a great new feature, or five minutes to teach a groundbreaking skill in a way that no one ever thought of before. Five minutes to tell the truth (or hear the truth).
Five minutes a day you might do exceptional work, remarkable work, work that matters. Five minutes a day you might defeat the lizard brain long enough to stand up and make a difference.
And five minutes of rocking would be enough, because it would be five minutes more than just about anyone else.
[via Seth Godin]
iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner 1.0 [review]
Mar 8th
Every once in a while, you find a tool that solves a real-world problem and you wonder how you got by without it. IZotope Music & Speech Cleaner 1.0 is a powerful, highly effective, and reasonably priced utility that cleans up podcast files and just about any other audio clip without a lot of fuss. It’s essentially a lighter and less complicated audio processing tool than the freeware Audacity, and you don’t really need to know anything about sound waves or why an MP3 even has pops and clicks. Music & Speech Cleaner just presents simple buttons to fix problems, does its magic, and lets you export the cleaned-up file. [read]