MetaFilter posts tagged with musicproduction

Click Track Detector

stupidsexyFlanders — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:58:44 -0800

Drummers, you're busted. In Search Of the Click Track. Not sure why the author focuses on drummers playing to the machine, and doesn't entertain the possibility that the drummer IS a machine. Is there really any human musicianship on a Britney Spears song?

The New Yorker: The Gerbil's Revenge

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:09:30 -0800

Tourists black out reflective retinas in snapshots before printing them, and millions of people refer to strangers they’ve never spoken to as friends, because they’ve connected through a social-networking platform. [...] It should come as no surprise, then, that singers sometimes choose to correct recorded flaws in pitch with modern software, like Antares’s Auto-Tune.

Sasha Frere-Jones on auto-tuning, in The New Yorker. Non-print version

Via Antares's own site, interestingly enough.

Previously: 1, 2

Sasha Frere Jones's personal site, New Yorker blog.

A virtual 303, 909 & effects setup in your browser!

6am — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:16:21 -0800

303, 909, FX, MIXER = ACID VARSITY. In other words, two virtual 303s, a 909, effects and a mixer running for free right in your browser.