Beat Tools: Multidimensional Control Here’s a koan for your day: How do you express multiple dimensions when you’re stuck in only one?…
Beat Tools: MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) I’m going to ask you to do something today: spare a thought for the old keyboard. Whether at…
A Journey to MIDI Guitar Land: Part III Do you know when I had the most fun using a MIDI guitar controller? When I forgot I…
A Journey to MIDI Guitar Land: Part II Not many dedicate a whole post to what you can’t do with something, but allow me to break…
A Journey to MIDI Guitar Land: Part I Lions lying down with lambs. Hams being stuffed into turkeys. Keyboards being turned into keytars. Guitars being turned…
Beat Techniques: Ambisonic Music Production Ambisonics is a phrase used to describe a way of listening to sound beyond the mono and stereo…
Beat Tools: Generative Music Software for iOS Where were we before? First, I covered what “generative music” is, and its origins. Then, I wrote of…
Beat Tools: Generative Music Software for PCs As I wrote the title of this post, I suddenly realized: “There is nothing sexy about the words…
Beat Roots: Understanding Generative Music On this edition of Beat Connection we dive into the macro idea of this thing called generative music.…
How To Back Up Your Vinyl Collection Welcome to Beat Connection, a series dedicated to promoting modern and vintage dance styles the only way we…