June 2011
1 post
Rock Band 3 keytar... good and bad
Ok, so since being excited about the Rock Band 3 instruments, I’ve purchased the 2-octave keytar—thoughts:
pretty legit in a lot of ways… it has a contour-cut belly scoop, which is exactly like what you would find on a Fender Stratocaster guitar (very impressive)
but the keys are a bit strange (the plastic feels odd under your fingers)
and the velocity sensitivity is good...
Rock Band 3--new MIDI-centric approach to...
Check this out… the new Rock Band 3 is now emphasizing a two-way rethinking of how it designs its instruments… It’s making all its game controllers REAL MIDI INSTRUMENTS, and its making its game playable with ANY MIDI INSTRUMENT via a pro-mode conversion box: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/rock-band-3-gets-pro-mode-real-guitar-hybrid-controller-and-k/ Look at those two...
May 2010
1 post
Thoughts about worship music--"play skillfully"?
Psalm 33:3 says, “Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy”.
However, I can’t think of the last time I was in a corporate worship setting and thought “man, that [instrumentalist/singer] is showing some skill!”
Typically, when I hear anyone talking about how good someone in the band is, it goes something like, “man you should have heard...
March 2010
3 posts
Another Tumblr feature I love
Another Tumblr feature I love… not every blog post has to be a full blog entry (which make me feel obligated to write a paragraph or two)… no, instead you can just blog a link or a picture or a video, and it posts it as its own separate thing with a different icon, and *optional* description/caption—how cool is that? No pressure to write a full blog entry…
Line 6 releases Pod Farm 2--finally, it has full... →
Temporary Home
I’ve temporarily set up this space on tumblr.com—they have some nice themes here, such as the one I’m using… Cool font usage and colors and such.
Maybe I’ll stick around for a while… who knows?