Q: How are you feeling today?
A: I feel like this.

Clean Soul

Not sure of the title is quite right on this one… but it is what it is.
Man! I love that bass!
Enjoy!

I added a new piece into the Public Domain over at FreePD.com – available in the unclassified electronic section. Also available for download at SoundCloud for a limited time.

I had hopes for this one, but it proved to be too difficult to produce easily, so this is the best it gets.

What: YouTube Channel Music
Where: Google+ Hangouts
When: Saturday, June 15th – Noon(isg) Eastern until we’re done
Cost: $0 (donations are always appreciated)

I get a lot of requests to do simple intros for YouTube channels. People want unique music to identify their channels. I expect that I’ll be able to do from 10 to 35 pieces…

Randy the incompetech helper gnome will be there to help wrangle the projects in real time.

Stuff you’ll need:
– A google account capable of getting on a hangout.
– Your channel (one channel per person)
– Specifics:
* Length (3-22 seconds)
* Music feel (chill? invigorating? quirky? other things?)
* Your email address – so I can send you the piece

What if I can’t make it? Then you won’t be there.
Are you going to do this again? I don’t know.
Why are you doing this? Writing music for a single project takes time. Lots of time.

more info coming as I think up more info!!

After 4 years of not releasing any new country music, I finally went out and got some software help from “Band in a Box”. BiaB is a super useful and horribly designed piece of software. You really cannot understand the depths of how terrible it is until you work with it.

Yes. Those are icons of floppy disks. Many of you have never seen a floppy disk. The last time a Mac had a drive like that was 15 years ago.
So the “Save” floppy has a useful tooltip… “Save Song, [F2 or cmd-S].” F2!?? ARGH!!!

The “Bass, Piano, Drums…” part is awful. You double click on the radio buttons to get a drop down menu.

So, putting aside the stupid, ugly, and completely non-customizable interface… we’re left with baffling buttons.

“F” That means “Folder”
“Song” Brings up a non-standard dialog of things in the “F” folder that you selected. ok…? hmm…
“M” and “S”! YES! These are standard buttons in DAWs. Mute and Solo!
Except that they are not Mute and Solo.
“M” is for “Song Memo” – a window that shows a bit of text including Key, Tempo, and Length.
“S” is for “Additional Song Settings”.

Okay, okay… I’ll be here all day if I keep this up. Anyway – designers, PLEASE help out the Band in a Box people.
But I wanted country… so I had to work with this craptastic interface. I hope you all appreciate!!

Back to country music…

Bam! River Valley Breakdown!
Six minutes of non-attention grabbing bluegrass music!

Get it here!

Wherein we get an expo center for ROCK CONCERTS!
And wherein, I got the audio mix better.