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Anime, Game Music, Japanese
Dale’s AOL Radio Updates: Valkyria Chronicles, M-flo and Ken Hirai
February 6, 2010 | Dale North |
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As yours truly is the Music Director of the four AOL Radio stations you’re most likely to listen to, I thought I’d put together a regular update of what music I’ve added to the playlists. I work mainly in the soundtrack section of AOL Radio, heading up the Video Game Scores, Final Fantasy Radio, Anime…
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Music Production, Reviews, Software
Review: Spectrasonics Omnisphere
November 28, 2008 | Dale North |
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[click] “Oooh!” [click] “Woah…” [click] “Wow, that’s weird!” [click] “Oh, I’m so going to use this later.” [click] … Take this type of scene of auditioning patches, and then stretch it out over several days, and you’ll have some idea of what our review time with Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere was like. Of course, this began after…
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Korg’s M50 announced, appealing
November 1, 2008 | Dale North |
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November 1st marks the North American availability for Korg’s newest synth, the M50. The idea behind the synth seems pretty solid: make something affordable that’s a bit better than the base model, low-end synths on the market now. They say “Agile. Vibrant. Sexy.,” but I say pretty nice for the price, or so it seems…
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Buy your musical instruments at Best Buy? What?
October 23, 2008 | Dale North |
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When I first started hearing rumors of being able to buy musical instruments at big box retailer Best Buy, I totally dismissed it. It would never be professional products there, I thought. It would probably be toys and pro-sumer junk. I was wrong. The new Musical Instruments selection at Best Buy.com has a good selection…
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Music Production, Software
Cakewalk’s Sonar 8 updates look sexy, but…
September 22, 2008 | Dale North |
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I was a loyal Cakewalk customer all the way from when the software came on floppy disks all the way up to Sonar 4 Producer. It was then that I ditched the software and its yearly updates due to the competition offering more of what I wanted in a sequencer. Oh, and some crappy customer…
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No, really: an ugly-ass guitar with a built-in sword
September 11, 2008 | Dale North |
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If you ask me, electric guitars are ugly in the first place. They’re pointy, asymetrical, phallic, and just plain weird-looking. Sorry, guitarists. This one takes the cake, though. The ESP Samurai Kyomoto Special is green, white, blue, and purple in color. It features wrinkles, tassels, gems, and eyeballs on its face. Oh, and it actually…
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Music Production
Technique rant: Keyboarding and grace notes
September 10, 2008 | Dale North |
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You know what a grace note is right? It’s that note before the note; an ornament that is short and leads into the next note, usually. For keyboardists, they’re that little quick note we add before a pickup or start of a phrase to show that we’re badasses. While originally intended to be an ornament…
Anime, Game Music, Japanese
Dale’s AOL Radio Updates: Valkyria Chronicles, M-flo and Ken Hirai
As yours truly is the Music Director of the four AOL Radio stations you’re most likely to listen to, I thought I’d put together a regular update of what music I’ve added to the playlists. I work mainly in the soundtrack section of AOL Radio, heading up the Video Game Scores, Final Fantasy Radio, Anime…
Music Production, Reviews, Software
Review: Spectrasonics Omnisphere
[click] “Oooh!” [click] “Woah…” [click] “Wow, that’s weird!” [click] “Oh, I’m so going to use this later.” [click] … Take this type of scene of auditioning patches, and then stretch it out over several days, and you’ll have some idea of what our review time with Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere was like. Of course, this began after…
Gear
Korg’s M50 announced, appealing
November 1st marks the North American availability for Korg’s newest synth, the M50. The idea behind the synth seems pretty solid: make something affordable that’s a bit better than the base model, low-end synths on the market now. They say “Agile. Vibrant. Sexy.,” but I say pretty nice for the price, or so it seems…
Gear
Buy your musical instruments at Best Buy? What?
When I first started hearing rumors of being able to buy musical instruments at big box retailer Best Buy, I totally dismissed it. It would never be professional products there, I thought. It would probably be toys and pro-sumer junk. I was wrong. The new Musical Instruments selection at Best Buy.com has a good selection…
Music Production, Software
Cakewalk’s Sonar 8 updates look sexy, but…
I was a loyal Cakewalk customer all the way from when the software came on floppy disks all the way up to Sonar 4 Producer. It was then that I ditched the software and its yearly updates due to the competition offering more of what I wanted in a sequencer. Oh, and some crappy customer…
Gear
No, really: an ugly-ass guitar with a built-in sword
If you ask me, electric guitars are ugly in the first place. They’re pointy, asymetrical, phallic, and just plain weird-looking. Sorry, guitarists. This one takes the cake, though. The ESP Samurai Kyomoto Special is green, white, blue, and purple in color. It features wrinkles, tassels, gems, and eyeballs on its face. Oh, and it actually…
Music Production
Technique rant: Keyboarding and grace notes
You know what a grace note is right? It’s that note before the note; an ornament that is short and leads into the next note, usually. For keyboardists, they’re that little quick note we add before a pickup or start of a phrase to show that we’re badasses. While originally intended to be an ornament…
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