Add me to the list of people who have seen and loved Chrispher Nolan’s Inception. That’s all…

Enjoy Live Online #71: Enlightenment

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on July 18th, 2010.

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I’m working hard on a new MoShang album, destined for release on the German Lemongrassmusic Label. The download only album should be out in December and I hope to include 10 new tracks and two older ones that have not been included on an album yet. I’m very excited with the way things are going, but I have my work cut out with a music deadline of mid/end-September.

Enjoy Live Online #70: Transform

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on July 18th, 2010.

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I trawled the MLO archive for this week’s mix. Since the musical snippets I make for this podcast generally get only a single airing before being relegated to the archive I think it’s fair to go back every so often and revisit old friends.

Enjoy Live Online #69: Activate

This recording was made at The Azure (Second Life) on July 10th, 2010.

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Happy July 4th to MLO listeners in the USA! The holiday meant there were only a handful of faithful souls at the SL show today, but I love how this one turned out nonetheless. It’s by no means a showcase of what it’s capable of, but you can hear a couple of string snippets I created with LA Scoring Strings.

Enjoy Live Online #68: Dreams

This recording was made at Comfort Zone (Second Life) on July 4th, 2010.

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I got to take a turn on the red carpet with Kou Chou Ching at this year’s Golden Melody Awards in Taipei on Saturday. Kou Chou Ching was nominated in the category of best band for the Unsung Heroes album that I was featured on.

The award went to the band 1976, but it was a great experience being at the event. It’s the second year that Kou Chou Ching was nominated and I’m pretty sure they’ll win the award somewhere in the future – they’re hard-working guys, so it’s great to see them recognized.

We’re at about 1:30 in this YouTube clip.

Thanks so much to Provider for making sure I looked the part – they have an outlet in Taipei’s trendy Ximending ;^)

Enjoy Live Online #67: Nominee

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on June 27th, 2010.

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Apologies for the delay in getting this one out – had a hitch recording the set last Sunday. Never fear, though, now it’s here!

Enjoy Live Online #66: Core

This recording was made at Gwampa’s (Second Life) on June 22nd, 2010.

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After finishing a new mix for Kou Chou Ching over the weekend, I’m more committed than ever to upgrading my desktop PC. A mix like the Kou Chou Ching one consists of more than 70 stereo tracks, each requiring plug-ins. My current Core2Duo machine handles it, with the caveat that I have to freeze tracks in Sonar as I go along. Looking forward to not having to freeze tracks on the Core i7 machine I’m planning to get. I’ll be building it myself to save some money. The new machine is still some months away though as I planned to buy it strictly with earnings from shows in Second Life… The wait will hopefully make the eventual purchase all the sweeter.

Enjoy Live Online #65: Nova

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on June 13th, 2010.

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FedEx delivered my copy of LA Scoring Strings today and I can’t wait to install all 40GB of it and start playing. Not that it’s a toy – on the contrary, it’s the cutting edge of string libraries out there. And possibly the most advanced instrument in my studio. I got it mostly to improve the quality of the soundtrack I’m doing for the National Geographic documentary, and with an eye to doing more soundtrack work. But I can also see it being pushed into service on my chillout tracks.

Here’s the double-edged sword: if I can’t make my string arrangements sound good with the best tools available, it must mean that I suck at it. Never go into anything without a healthy dose of self-doubt.

Enjoy Live Online #64: Unicode

This recording was made at Comfort Zone (Second Life) on June 6th, 2010.

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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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