Earthquake in Japan

I was so excited to get a room upgrade to a really nice room on a high floor. Kinda regretted a few hours later. I grabbed my phone and recorded one of the aftershocks.  This is just raw footage.

 

 

 

 

Part 1 Just after the big one (You have seen this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6-94xTBmXw&hd=1

 

Part 2 An aftershock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bqHqgVeLpo&hd=1

 

Part 3 Me giving a wrap up J

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LCIRhy1VQ8=1&hd=1

 

Part 4 News report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q91RAHS1xlg&feature=channel_video_title&hd=1

How to get SONAR 8.5

SONAR 8.5 has many amazing new features including the VX-64, PX-64, Matrix view, Audio Snap 2.0, Session Drummer 3 and more! The video below explains how to to get your upgrade to SONAR 8.5.

Matrix View

Brandon was able to get a few seconds of my matrix perfromace onto cell phone video.

What’s for dinner?

The dinner menu

No seriously, what is on the menu?

It turned out to be an awesome dinner that even had fried chicken!

Filming in Japan – pt 2

We went down down down...

On the first day the focus was showing the new features in SONAR. I was able to finish my parts and today Brandon gets to be in the spotlight with the VS-700 and the new SONAR features.

The door to the film studio

Our friends at Roland Japan have renamed the studio we film in to the V-Studio.

I have to say I am addicted to the Matrix view. I have been using it as a scratch pad to arrange backing tracks before recording lead instruments like guitar. What I really love is  “performing” my songs and playing them like an instrument, you can put new life into existing songs so easily. After filming the camera crew ran up to the keyboard to play with triggering the matrix. It was great to see this kind of response!

Brandon checking the levels

The Cakewalk Twitter Feed as RSS

Twitter – A useful tool for short descriptive messages or the sign of the apocalypse?

As an example I added the Cakewalk Twitter feed to my blog. By selecting the RSS feed (icon) on the Twitter page I can then subscribe to the feed and get all the updates without ever going to Twitter again. You can see this in the right side of this blog.

You can also take that RSS subscription and add it to pages like igoogle and other sites that read RSS or even most mail programs.

Of course you can just go to the forums and wait 30sec after the Twitter post hits and get your updates there.