the breeding ground and konceptions

Curtis Macdonald – Alto
Bobby Avey – Keys
Chris Tordini – Bass
Adam Jackson – Drums

Monday, Jan 23 7:30pm
The Breeding Ground @ Highbreed Studios
345 Eldert St, Suite 1
Brooklyn, NY
[To RSVP email: highbreedmusic@gmail.com]
*Live video broadcast via Numubu

Tuesday, Jan 24 10:30pm
Konceptions @ Korzo
667 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
*Matt Bauder’s Day in Pictures on at 9pm

arpeggiators and DAWs

Ever need to export an MIDI arpeggiator’s output?  Each piece of software does this in their own special way.  In Reason, right-click the RPG-8 device in order to print “Arpeggiator Notes to Track” which is very clear, fast and simple.  In Abelton Live, route the output of the arpeggiated MIDI track into a new MIDI track via a virtual MIDI bus, thus recording the processed MIDI information into the timeline.  In Logic this is also possible, but it requires routing the MIDI outs to the sequencer input in the Environment window and requires recording the information in real-time (see video below).  If you have many minutes or hours of arpeggiation to print, try a quick work-around and temporarily increase the session’s tempo to something extreme such as 1000bpm to speed up the internal MIDI recording.

Below is a quick video demonstrating Logic’s routing in Environment.  Sadly, I wish Pro Tools had a MIDI plugin for arpeggiation.

Hat Tip to Jeremy Viner for the Logic demo.

Also be sure to check out Hypercyclic, a AU, VST and standalone LFO MIDI arpeggiator with some additional functionality not commonly found within DAWs.

Rose Live Music

Sunday, December 12th
10pm

The Curtis Macdonald Group
Performs at Rose Live Music!

Curtis Macdonald – Alto Sax
Jeremy Viner – Tenor Sax
David Virelles – Piano
Travis Reuter – Guitar
Aidan Carroll – Bass
Devin Gray – Drums

Set List:

Community Immunity
Mosaic I
Figmentum II
Social Inheritance*
Physical Memory
Half Moon*

*denotes new compositions!

$5 suggested donation

the viper matrix vol.1

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This track is easily performed live, and is constructed so that no matter how hard you try it will sound different every time, it’s very intuitive to perform.   This opens up many ways to improvise and interact with additional instrumentalists and computer rigs.  As a bonus, all of the samples used in this example are acoustic.  David & I worked with the goal to make a live, interactive patch that sounds as if it had the vibe of a field recording.

Tea Lounge

Here it is, y’all!  The Debut of a new project Travis Reuter and I started!