by Richard MacLemale | Feb 16, 2025 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
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...
by Richard MacLemale | Jan 29, 2025 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
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?...
by Richard MacLemale | Jan 25, 2025 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
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...
by Richard MacLemale | Jan 19, 2025 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
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. ...
by Richard MacLemale | Jan 16, 2025 | Blog Posts, Uncategorized
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...
by Richard MacLemale | Jan 8, 2025 | Blog Posts
We all judge things based on our personal experiences of them. I ran a guitar-based YouTube channel for several years before starting a second channel for keyboards, but I’ve been watching synth-based channels almost since the beginning of YouTube. And between...
