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I drive an 11 year old Mustang.  I love the car, but this summer I'll be getting a new one.  And the reason is that everything is broken on my 2014 Mustang. The plastic interior is breaking off, one piece at a time.  The gas gauge broke, the turn singals no longer...

Synthesizer V Studio Pro Version 2 is a mixed bag.  The voices sound better in terms of fidelity, and some of the tools are very improved.  Unfortunately some of the tools are totally gone, such as the ability to control vibrato speed.  Instead of typing the whole...

In my day job, I'm a professional web developer.  I manage servers and build and support websites.  As such, you might wonder why this site is so minimal.  It's because I do this site for fun, and the point is the words, not the look.  It's functional. I never get...

First and foremost, let me just say this - I don't think anyone should tell you how to run your life.  I am going to propose an idea - that's all. I'm not saying it will work for everyone, or that doing something else is pointless.  This is a thought exercise... based...

I have a theory.  It's a stupid one and likely wrong, but I want to explore it.  I'm sure my massive audience of dozens will bear with me. Some genres seem to stick with the same instruments, chord progressions, melodies, etc, over the decades.  Radically changing...

Humans are tribal by nature - we like to be in communities. But in an era where people in the US drive around with bumper stickers that say "F*ck Your Feelings", is it really any wonder that online communities are full of nasty, angry people? Throughout history, an...

The debate about how you get your synth sounds will go on forever.  We've got four different levels of sounds: inexpensive software synths, expensive software synths, inexpensive hardware synths, expensive hardware synths. Put another way, it's Cherry Audio vs....

Hey, check this out: This comes up, randomly, since I upgraded to Logic Pro 11.  Wanna know what the plug is?  It's Arturia V Collection 9. I used to develop iOS apps.  The main reason I stopped was that every damn OS update broke my apps.  Every. Single. One. ...

If I somehow manage to have some free time this weekend, I REALLY want to go to Guitar Center in Clearwater and see if they've got one of the Arturia KeyLab 49 Mk2 keyboards, like the one I just bought on Amazon (and returned).  I want to see if I had a defective...