Moving from Blogger to WordPress
I just finished moving Elusive Music from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress
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Category: Software
Music-making tools, including creating demos with digital sounds (virtual instruments.
Mugician: iPad as musical instrument
I’ve discovered a cool music app for my iPad. It’s called Mugician by Rob Fielding. I found it by searching for “microtonal” in the app store.
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Making a conductor’s score in Sibelius
In a few steps, you can create a conductor score with 2 parts on one staff, for example, Flutes 1 & 2 etc.
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Converting an old music score to new Sibelius
I wanted to make a few revisions to an orchestral score I finished in 2004. It was in an early version of Sibelius, and I hoped it would be easy to update. However, when I opened the score in Sibelius 6, it didn’t look good and I feared it would be a lot of work Read More...
Keyswitches in a Kontakt 3 Virtual Instrument
If you have a multi-timbre or multi-articulation instrument, but no documentation, how do you figure out how to switch between different sounds? What is a keyswitch?One common technique is a “keyswitch”. Playing a MIDI note of a specific pitch turns on a particular timbre. The MIDI note is out of range for that instrument so Read More...