Slicer Plugins Long ago I was a Drum and Bass producer. I used FL Studio (then Fruityloops) to produce my tracks. One mainstay of DnB was chopping up breakbeat samples to use sped up. Tools like Recycle came out to slice and chop drum break wav files into separate beats to re-sequence and add effects to. Back then I had…

DAWlish Jamming I’m digging back into making music with computers. I went “DAW-less” without really realizing it was a thing until later on when I got invited to the dawless jamming Facebook channel by someone I knew. I used to run a music production meetup called Laptop Music Production Workshop while at the same time jamming with a group of…

Reaper extensions I’m a huge fan of Reaper for recording audio. I’ve been using it now for years and there’s always more I’m learning about it. It’s probably the most flexible audio app in terms of patching and routing, but I’ve always found the routing system a little on the complex side mostly owing to the way the little pop-out…

Headless DAWs I’m interested in getting something working headless for a project. I did some research and found the Non mixer stuff. I looked like what I wanted since it’s a way of decoupling the parts of a DAW and using them independently. I’m interested mostly in the mixer. However it looks like these are still UI-based components that can’t…

Overview of free MIDI editors I’m doing research for a MIDI sequencer project now that I’ve had on the back burner for ages. Over the years I’ve dug around the internet to find examples of small MIDI apps sort of like Seq24. I’m going to post a few things here that I’ve found mostly because I forget that I even…

Handy Recording I recently bought an all-in-one handheld recorder with built in x/y mics and several mic preamp inputs. The device I ended up with is the Zoom H6. I’d been thinking about buying something like this on and off for years as friends would set up their Zoom H4 recorders to capture jams and messing around in the studio.…

VR/XR Audio I dug my Oculus Quest 2 back out of the closet after Apple announced their Vision Pro headset. I had one of the original Oculus DK1 (Dev Kit 1) devices and never did much with it since you needed a pretty beefy PC rig at the time to really drive it. Later on a friend convinced me to…

VST Roundup Periodically I try out some new VSTs in my work. Sometimes I forget that I even tried something or I find a VST installed on my workstation and I can’t quite remember why I have it installed. This is an effort to document some of my experiments so I can re-trace the thread later. I’ve been interested in…

DAW Stuff I’ve never had a single DAW that I used for everything. It seems like certain projects just need certain things that I’m familiar with in one of the DAWs that I use. I’ve been using FL Studio since version 2 or something like that in the late 90s. It still isn’t great for audio recording though. I have…

Electronic Drum Setups I’m trying to comment here on some things I have tried recently with my electronic drum setup. I’m experimenting with playing bass notes using pedals. I’m starting with just two notes and it’s harder to play than I anticipated. I’m not sure if it’s just a matter of practice or not but it’s especially difficult to play…