The reveal over at Propellerhead that I mentioned last week was stretched out over 5 days and turned out to be for Reason 5/Record 1.5 after all. A host of new features were announced (Peter Kirn has a good summary of the new features on his Create Digital Music blog), many of which have been requested by users for a long time, but sadly there was no mention of a 64-bit Rewire as I’d hoped. I’ll be upgrading of course, but I’m still hoping for the improved Rewire somewhere along the line.

Enjoy Live Online #63: Snapper

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on May 30th, 2010.

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Looks like there’s a new version of Propellerhead’s Reason on its way – well, there’s a countdown on their front page here, so people are assuming it’s for Reason 5.

I’m a long-time user of Reason (a lot of this podcast gets made in Reason), and while I’m happy with the current version I would gladly upgrade for a 64-bit version of ReWire, the software that allows me to tie Reason to my Sonar sequencer.  Cakewalk’s Sonar has long been a 64-bit application, but I’ve been held back from upgrading to a 64-bit version of Sonar by the lack of ReWire support. Being able to make use of more than 3GB of memory would be great, especially when working with large sampling libraries (LASS here we come!).

While we’re wishing, I also hope for an improvement to clips in Reason’s sequencer. I do a lot of switching between Sonar and Reason when rewired and I keep getting tripped up by the way clips are implemented in Reason, often requiring more clicks to edit than I’m accustomed to in Sonar. It’s not a biggy, but it does get annoying and breaks workflow. Let’s see…

Enjoy Live Online #62: Magnetic

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on May 23rd, 2010.

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I thought it’s just me, but I had a chat with some musician friends about the good old days of MySpace. For all its faults, it seems we all found it much more conducive to finding collaborators than Facebook. I find Facebook fiddly and unintuitive – I guess that’s the price you pay for not living your entire life on Facebook as you’re supposed to ;^/ Aren’t we due for the next big thing in social networking yet? Diaspora perhaps?

Enjoy Live Online #61: Kicks

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on May 16th, 2010.

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This sample pack contains 78 original audio loops from the MoShang Live Online Podcast. The samples are arranged in 26 mini-construction kits, each with a bass line and two complementary melodic lines.

All loops are at 94bpm.

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I know of a couple of moms out there getting their weekly dose of chill from this podcast – if you’re one of them, happy Mother’s Day! Speaking of mother’s, I got my own mom an EEEPC when she was in Taiwan for Em. and my wedding last year. The idea was that we could use Skype to chat PC to PC (I’ve been using Skype Out to phone her on the landline). She’s been held back by high-speed internet costs in South Africa, but has finally taken the plunge. Looking forward to face-to-face calls which really goes a long way to shrinking the distance – no small consideration with us on opposite sides of the globe.

Enjoy Live Online #60: Ignite

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on May 9th, 2010.

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