Today, I’ve spent some time playing with the DD502 (first mentioned in this post yesterday), and have had more of a chance to get a feel for what the whole thing is like.
As I’ve said in the past, I’ve been looking for something that would allow me the freedom of hitting something with sticks, [...]
Today, I needed to get out of the house.
Suffice to say, the last few days have been kind of trying – life has a way of testing you to the hilt, and it’s kind of been like that. Its been the kind of time I’ve been glad to have friends and family around, and [...]
A few weeks ago (and a few posts ago!) I bought an Alesis ControlPad. For the price, this is a great little device, and works really well – WHEN IT WORKS!
The first one I had had an issue with one of the pads, in that it was sending out random rubbish when I hit [...]
I decided to bung my first go at recording a few bars of drums with the ControlPad. It’s not particularly good, isn’t quantized, and isn’t exactly the most in-time thing I’ve ever heard, but it shows how it can quite easily make drum parts sound expressive, even with a very rusty-and-never-particularly-good drummer such as [...]
And so to one of the most boringly-named, but nicest bits of input kit I’ve used in a while. you may have ready my article a few months back (during the infancy of this site) about the M-Audio Trigger finger (here if you’re interested – http://www.axemansplace.co.uk/?p=48). At the time, I really liked it, [...]
It’s been a few weeks since my last post, and not without good reason. A major thing has happened in those weeks – something I thought would never happen… I’ve gone and changed to the ‘other side’.
Let me explain…
Two weeks or so ago, I was recording on Cubase, and had a bit if [...]
