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Interesting update to the post below: negotiations continue. The time limit has been dropped and they are going to talk to EMI about licensing. On the positive side, that shows they are aware that the agreement needs some fixing, which is commendable. On the negative side, I wonder what would be the case if I [...]

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Gosh gee willikers! How time flies when you’re servicing high interest debt! The Big Bigot album was released 24 years ago, and the last time it was remastered is now 11 years ago! Now it’s time for Bigot to leave sevcom and join its friends over in the UK on the LTM ‘more memories than [...]

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3 philosophers are in a row boat. At the front of the boat, the first philosopher is playing a tuba, badly. A horrid spluttering Parp! Parp! To the rear the other philosophers are manning the oars. They face backwards, so they enjoy a view of where they have been. As the boat is going nowhere [...]

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While friend astronaut was teaching sci fi I’ve been reading a lot of synthesis lessons trying to get a feel for how I would go about this. I thought the best thing is to work with a particular synthesiser, choosing Ichiro Toda’s Synth1. This free VST instrument is intended as a virtual Clavia Nord Lead, [...]

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Today is Boxing Day which is synonymous with belly ache, boredom and regret. Let us use this day in a constructive and useful way! Either that, or write music. Let’s go:
AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA
AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA
AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA
AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA
That’s a really crap song. It just does the same thing over and [...]

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Vocals are, as you have become used to me saying, made up of multiple sounds. Look at a head.
Here are a set of cavities. The throat, the mouth, the nasal cavity etc. Each has a size which resonates at a certain pitch and they are joined up in sequence. If you are Barry White your [...]

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You play a note on a bass. (Here we’ll only look at the note and not any of the higher tones that add to the timbre of the instrument.) The bass string vibrates back and forth, it pushes together air in a radiating pattern of compressed and uncompressed regions that reach our ears and cause [...]

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Much as I love to laugh at people all day, let’s use this blog for something useful.
Most people have a general idea about frequencies of sounds. They know that some sounds are ‘low’, ‘deep’ and some are ‘mid’ and some are ‘high pitched’. When they come to mix music they know that different instruments can [...]

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