Every once in a while while I am writing music I somehow manage to create something that complete engrosses me. Most often I have no idea how I wrote what I did, but I suddenly just stop and have to listen.
I am currently trying to create some music for a yoga session. Something of a bit of a challange for me. This afternoon while working on some music I just happened to come across what I think is that magical moment. These little pieces of sound are so engaging I often times just sit and listen to them looping, sometimes for half and hour or so.
Here is a quick little sample of what caught me this afternoon. This is raw so I haven't done any mixing on it.
Winter NAMM is coming up next week and normally I am pretty stoked to see what the world has to offer for musicians. The past couple years of NAMM's have been pretty boring though with not a lot on the horizon to get exicted for. Unfortunately, the trend seems to be following suit as the build up thus far seems to be pretty boring. Nothing really exciting is looming in the pipelines, at least not yet.
I have seen two pretty cool new DAW's though that have popped up lately that seem pretty interesting. The first i heard about the other day is a new DAW called Bitwig. It looks to be an Ableton Live clone in many respects, but has some interesting fatures and Linux support. Not sure what to make of it yet as it still seems a bit too Livey to me, but it is nice to see another player in the live performance market.
The next DAW (and I slightly hesitate to call this a DAW) isa product called AGL. IT is completely pre-Beta at this point, but the visual and audio demo below blew me away. At first it seems likea standard modular audio environment, no big deal right? As you see later in the video though the author has expanded the system to a three dimensional automation layout. It looks to not only be incredibly cool, but also incredibly powerful.
Let hope these lead to some better innovation from the "big boys" showing up at NAMM next week.