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Anadyomene FM Synth Anadyomene is a free FM Synth in the 64 Bit VST 2 format for Windows hosts.Available for free at VST4free.com although I do appreciate you considering me for some work that I can do or at least saying thanks nicely on one of my Socials This video is a walkthrough of the… Continue reading Anadyomene FM Synth Free VST
Understandably enough when many people start thinking about making something they tend to think results. It is natural enough. You need to know what the thing looks like before you can build it. But is that really wise? Actually no. Bridges all tend to look different. Some have lots of rigging in pretty "sail" patterns… Continue reading The Design Brief – how to Win with Freelancers
If you like the music please purchase for $5 at Bandcamp. Your support is the only way I get to keep going. This album was done fairly quickly coming out of T.V. Treated. That period with all the tutorials and pieces that weren't mine (not to mention a film or two) was great in that… Continue reading Travels in Digital Sands
Music licensing can be a very complex subject, but only if we let it. Very simply, every piece of music is owned by someone. The technical term is Intellectual Property (I.P.) which means that an idea and it's execution has value - which it has or we'd never listen to Metallica records. License options depend… Continue reading Music Licensing – who owns what, where, when
This is the holder for a series of videos on broader thinking and application of the real rules of music. Tone & Time are the core concepts to be understood in music, no matter the genre, style etc. Everything that you hear is made up of a complex moving melange of tone over time in… Continue reading Tone & Time – the Real Rules of Music
Social Media is an amazing opportunity. As a Musician I can be talking to, working with, someone on Jupiter - or anywhere that the Internet exists. Ideas and activities don't have to be relegated to physical location. Communities are built around shared ideas and interests far more than accident of birth location, or where your… Continue reading Social Media and the Great Divide – Healthy vs Un-Healthy Communities
This is a bit of an exercise and not a serious album outing. I think the cover & pricing shows that. First up, the title is unashamedly lifted from the Neon Judgement track of the same name. Not related in any other way except that these are my treatments of some TV Theme tunes. I… Continue reading T.V. Treated – TV Themes given the Benedict Treatment
Drums are the subject that get a lot of people off-track when they start making & mixing music. Drums maketh not the Mix The song is about the song. Tautological I know but it needs to keep being said when I hear track after track where all the care in the world went into the… Continue reading Making & Mixing Drums – everything you need to know to make drums that Groove well
here ends the positivity bit Right now I am beyond vaguely angry. I am livid. I am hoping that when you read and understand what I am about to show you here, you will feel the same too. Further than that, I hope that you will start to think about how you may be having… Continue reading Upwork is for Thieves & Fools
I was asked to show a whole track being mixed. Normally that is a tiny bit difficult for me as I have the track essentially mixed by the time I have finished composing it so there isn't a discrete process wherein I go through and Mix things. But I was disciplined as I worked on… Continue reading Mixing Midsomer Variations
