In my 40+ years of making music with electronic devices, I find the MPC to be the best workflow, so far. The MPC introduced me to a quick way to lay down my ideas and get the sound I'm looking for without being distracted by email, instant messages, and notifications on my computer.

I recently made some silly purchases. I am an amateur musician. I have a rudimentary home studio consisting of a few MIDI controllers, a Native Instruments Maschine Mk2, and a Korg Wavestate. I also use computers to write my music. I kept seeing videos ("not sponsored" (but provided free/loaned

A few months ago, when I started my Intentional Music project, I wanted a way to create music with computer code by defining my "intents" and then writing an algorithm that would process those intents to generate long-form ambient music.

In my previous post, I discussed my idea for creating what I call "Intentional Music Programming". I have managed to finish the first iteration of my intentional music algorithm and I've created my first few tracks. They are available on my bandcamp page. Here is the album: Intentional Ambience by

I've written some new music and posted it on bandcamp. I added to some other music that I wrote many years ago to make a new album. Music for coding by cerkit

I'm not a classically trained musician. I was kicked out of second grade music class because I blew into the practice flute while the instructor was talking. It was something that a kid would do on a dare. It was a tragedy that he was also the band instructor for

I just received a new shipment from Sweetwater music. I ordered some studio monitors (speakers). I just got them hooked up. I decided to try them out by listening to Metallica's Master of Puppets. Holy #$%@! I knew that Master of Puppets was by far the best Metallica album ever, but

I was finally able to save up for something that I've had on my wishlist for over 5 years. In that time, they've improved the product, so I'm a little glad I had to wait. My little helper just dying to explore the box...I got a Native Instruments Komplete

In this post, I discuss how I solved the issue of not being able to load a VST in Reason 10.

I've been a Tangerine Dream fan since 1990. Since that time, when someone asked me who my favorite band was, I instantly answered "Tangerine Dream". I was usually met with blank stares because no one had ever heard of them. I then proudly proclaimed that "They're the

testing.jpg --> I spent a few hours with the Softube Modular over the weekend and I am very impressed. If you're unfamiliar with modular synthesis, I highly recommend watching the video below. Also, try searching YouTube for "Modular synthesizer performances" to hear some of what is possible.