In this holiday shopping guide series, we’ll be sharing our favorite gear recommendations, so you can spend more time shopping and less time researching. Here are our picks for the best MIDI controllers for the 2017 holiday season!
MODARTT Pianoteq 6 Modeled Piano VST Plugin Review
Pianoteq 6 is MODARTT’s latest version of their modeled piano VST plugin. It offers stunning and unmatched playability and responsiveness. With it’s improved acoustic modeling engine, Pianoteq 6 has evolved into a virtual instrument that doesn’t feel or sound so virtual anymore.
What’s New in MainStage 3.3.2?
Apple released MainStage 3.3.2 yesterday. While this incremental release doesn’t come with any new and exciting features, it does fix a few bugs related to stability and reliability. Apple’s complete release notes are below.
How to Use a Mono Output in MainStage
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up a mono output in Apple MainStage. While most modern virtual instruments are designed to be used in stereo, certain situations may require you to fold the mix down to a mono output. There are two ways to set up a mono output in MainStage.
How to Use MainStage to Make MIDI Mappings in Ableton Live
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make MIDI mappings in Ableton Live without a hardware MIDI keyboard controller. To accomplish this, we’ll be using Apple MainStage’s external instrument channel strips to communicate with Ableton Live via MacOS’s built-in MIDI IAC Driver.
Biei on a Bicycle
After a beautiful morning of lavender ice cream, pretty flowers, and delicious melon smoothies at Farm Tomita, Garret and I boarded the JR Norokko Train towards Biei.
A Rainy Night in Tokyo with Fujifilm’s XF56mm f/1.2
Today is my last day in Japan, and I woke up feeling a little under the weather. I napped for most of the day before heading to Shibuya with my Fujifilm X-Pro2 and XF 56mm f/1.2 lens.This one was actually taken in Yokohama in front of Wadamachi Station.
How to Use a Yamaha FC7 Pedal with Roland & Kurzweil Keyboards
The Yamaha FC7 is the world’s most popular expression pedal. While it works perfectly out of the box with Yamaha keyboards, the FC7’s polarity must be reversed if you want to use it with a Roland or Kurzweil keyboard.
How to Bounce a Multi-Output Kontakt Drum Kit in Logic Pro X
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up a multi-output drum kit in Kontakt, and how to offline bounce each component of the drum kit to a separate audio file.
441K Hole Puncher Reference Guide
Installation
To install the Hole Puncher MIDI FX Script, unzip the downloaded package and move the file named 441K Hole Puncher.pst to the following folder. You will have to create the Scripter folder if it doesn’t already exist.