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A Free Cakewalk SONAR 6 update is now available for download which - along with Vista-compatibility (32-bit and 64-bit) - also comes packed with new features.
Reason ReWire and Cubase Tutorial Updates
It's difficult to balance the spinning plates these days, what with trying to roll-out the dedicated online video tutorials for musicians service, the usual maintenance and upgrade projects that cook behind-the-scenes, and writing tutorials blah, blah, blah...
I'm glad I found this - I read it a while back but lost the URL - If you're seriously looking to get signed to a label, then you owe it to yourself to read carefully.
These A&R guys are not allowed to write contracts. What they do is present the band with a letter of intent, or "deal memo," which loosely states some terms, and affirms that the band will sign with the label once a contract has been agreed on. The spookiest thing about this harmless sounding little memo, is that it is, for all legal purposes, a binding document.
Oh the information just keeps on coming in!
I'm gonna just keep updating this post with any hard numbers that come our way instead of scattering them over several posts - Please feel free to add any others you might find.
Last week I wrote about the upcoming new Microsoft Vista operating system - Specifically; what the new Vista audio engine will mean for musicians.
Well, had an email from NormC (though why you lot are too shy to leave comments, I don't know - especially those of you that are members!), who is asking why I didn't mention the WaveRT (wave real-time) port driver...
Just ran a quick comparison of the first few popular audio/midi editors that came to mind using Google Trends which shows what search-words are on the rise, or on the fall... a barometer of popularity, ya could say.
I punched-in: Cubase, Cakewalk, Ableton and Pro Tools. The results are listed below.
Last week we touched on how to find the key of a song - Uncanny, as it was literally at that same moment that Allen & Heath (in partnership with Mixed In Key) announced Xone Mixed In Key
Sometimes our songs are built in the head before touching anything - Other times they evolve as we go along. Then, there are times when evolution just grinds to a halt part-way through a new tune, rendering what started out as a good idea, into another extinct song.
Just WTF are you supposed to do?!
Here's a little technique I sometimes use when the creative juices suddenly stop flowing, right bang-slap in the middle of a song.
Reckon you could write and record either 10 songs, or 35 minutes of original material in 28 days?
Well, RPM Challenge is once again reaching-out to grab you by the collar and slap you in the face before shouting: Come-head then, show us what you've got man-queen!!
Your Record Label - Help? Or Hindrance?
If you're a record company executive, the future doesn't appear to be looking too great at the moment. More appropriately (perhaps), if you're an aspiring up-and-coming artist looking to be signed to a record label that still doggedly holds onto the Digital Rights Management (
