Archive for the 'MIDI' Category

Yamaha DTXPRESS IV Electric Drum Kit

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I borrowed a Yamaha DT Xpress 4 for some recording tonight, along with a drummer since drums are not really my forté.  I thought an electric drum kit would be perfect for an evening recording session at home, as it wouldn’t keep the neighbors up like an acoustic kit would.
I wasn’t familiar with the kit […]

New Toy - Yamaha CLP-230 Digital Piano

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

I have been dying to get a Piano for a while now, however with the stairs, and the tuning, and the space it just hasn’t proved practical. But I’ve been also needing a new MIDI controller Keyboard. Mine is only two octaves, and a few notes don’t work so good after the coffee […]

Attack of the Meeplings.. Meep Meep!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

The Beta version of a game I’ve done music for has just come out. The game is called “Attack of the Meeplings” And is a cute neo-retro bullet dodge arcade style browser based game. Well, that’s how I’d describe it I guess It’s made by TinyFrog Software, and the game can […]

General Midi - not quite dead yet?

Friday, February 1st, 2008

If you don’t know what General Midi (GM) is, you’re missing out on something which is at the time time both very awful and very cool. General Midi is a specific specification for synths, that basically means the the default synth on your soundcard or operating system should theoretically have the same instrumentation […]