Archive for tag: motif
Sampling: Legally Ambiguous Like Whoa
February 14, 2008 Licensing, Music Business, SamplingThis post focuses on the practice of sampling and its legal ramifications. Sampling has, for years, been a routine practice in the music industry. Sampling is taking a part of an already recorded musical composition and repurposing it in a new composition. It used to be that people would simply sample freely, release the material, [...]
Read More »The Anatomy of a Song
February 4, 2008 UncategorizedThis post focuses on the various parts of a song and many typical ways in which they are arranged. Over time several tendencies in songwriting have emerged as far as the arrangement of music is concerned. It all comes largely from classical music, which often is composed with attention to variations in musical ‘motifs’.
Read More »SysEx and MIDI Automation: Don’t Forget That Preset
January 17, 2008 UncategorizedThe focus of this post is on capturing SysEx information from external MIDI devices in order to have a record of your presets right in your session or automate the settings throughout the track. It happens to producers time and time again: you’ve created an awesome synth sound or guitar tone, you’ve recorded the midi [...]
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