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Custom Build Arduino Guitar and Loop trigger Pedal for Ableton
Hey, here’s a picture of this new guitar pedal I am making for Ableton live. I’m going to use an Arduino to trigger midi. I decided this year that I’m going to play my live sets with guitar and sing through a laptop. I want to be able to make loops, trigger songs and be […]
Custom Build Arduino Guitar and Loop trigger Pedal for Ableton
Hey, here’s a picture of this new guitar pedal I am making for Ableton live. I’m going to use an Arduino to trigger midi. I decided this year that I’m going to play my live sets with guitar and sing through a laptop. I want to be able to make loops, trigger songs and be […]
23 New Ableton 10 Keyboard Shortcuts – Free PDF Cheat Sheet
Ableton 10 has a lot of new keyboard shortcuts in it that are great for speeding up your workflow. I made a PDF cheat sheet of 23 of the new Ableton 10 keyboard shortcuts I found most useful. You can download this cheat sheet pdf with all of these Ableton 10 keyboard shortcuts.
Valley of Sapphire Album Release Party Pictures
Valley of Sapphire Album Release Party Pictures I had a great time at my Valley of Sapphire Album release party a few weeks ago. Thanks to all of you who were able to come out, listen, drink some cider and play some games. Here is an auto-scrolling slideshow of photos my friend Thomas Stark took […]
Relaxing Chill Out Meditative Album “Valley of Sapphire” Released Today
My new album is “Valley of Sapphire” is available everywhere today. You can check it out on my site here: Or Listen to it or download it from all the platforms (Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google etc.) here: http://valleyofsapphire.com I wrote 3 haikus to describe the emotion I felt when I created it. […]
Ableton Performance Tip – Keymap the Re-Enable Automation Button
I have a lot of automation programmed in my new album. They control the effects and sweeps which my live guitar and keyboard run through when I perform. I also have a some midi mapped controllers so I can adjust values of filters and delays in realtime. Fun!! Anytime I start knob twiddling, to play […]
12 Photo Editor Tips for Hot Online Marketing Pics – Free PDF Download
Photographer and musician Matt from The Second Spirit discusses his most used tricks when creating digital marketing online pictures with a cell phone. He’ll talk about filters, photo editor apps, effects and composition and different free apps to create eye-popping hot digital marketing pictures.
How to Handle Song Requests You Don’t Know
I stopped telling drunks I don’t know a song. If I tell them I don’t know their request, they act like I committed the worst crime imaginable. Instead, I usually just go straight into a similar song or a song by the same artist without saying anything. But if I say this song is better, […]
The New Music Industries’ Indie Artist Workload
Does the quality of my music suffer because I am doing everything myself?
11 Most Interesting Las Vegas Tips Received, You Won’t Believe #2
I’ve received some very interesting Las Vegas tips as a street performer over these last few years. Some of them are hilarious so I thought I would share them with you. So here is my list of the 11 most interesting and coolest tips I have received, counting down to number 1 being the best, and […]
Splice – Ableton Project Collaboration / Backup / Sync Tool
I want to share with you my Ableton Chillstep project on Splice. If you haven’t heard of Splice, it’s a really cool DAW collaboration, backup, sample library cloud system for Ableton, Logic, GarageBand, and FL Studio projects. It has a lot of great features, it can automatically sync your Ableton projects in the cloud as […]