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Count The Beats: Inspiration... two apps for the musician on the move

by Matt Tinsley (Mar 10th, 2010)

Recently I've been preparing to move home and finally did last weekend. Naturally I had to pack up all my musical gear, equipment and of course, my Mac. In the week leading up to the move, I've had my iPhone and nothing else. With no creative outlet and the pressure of looming project deadlines, I ...

Count The Beats: Playing keys and synth live on a Mac (interview).

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Over the coming months, the Count The Beats series is going to be taking a closer look at how the Mac (and the accompanying software) fits in with the various components of a typical rock band (drums, bass, electric guitar etc. You get the idea). In this post we're going to take a closer look at ...

Count The beats: Training your ear with RelativePitch

by Matt Tinsley (Jan 12th, 2010)

Relative pitch, let alone perfect pitch (some people are born with it, everyone else has to learn!) is an invaluable skill required when it comes to playing an instrument and understanding the music you are hearing. Thankfully, Easy Ear Training has developed a nifty little app to help you along ...

Count The Beats: Toyo from Amidio, Touch DJ and Noise.io

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 20th, 2009)

Matt's back with another Count The Beats interview (full of insightful thought-provoking content), waiting for you to devour and digest. Happy holidays! We got together with Toyo from Amidio, the creators of the mighty Noise.io Pro [iTunes Link] synth app (and other cool music apps for the ...

Count The Beats: Interview with a mixing engineer

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 6th, 2009)

In the last year I've spent a fair amount of time doing some recordings. In particular, I've been working on some of my own material. Having invested a large amount of time and money into pre production and the actual recording sessions, what started out as a small bedroom demo soon escalated into ...

Count The Beats: Logic Studio, are you in love? (Poll)

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 16th, 2009)

Here at TUAW, we've not given Apple's Logic Studio a great deal of coverage recently. In particular, back in July 2009, Apple released its latest iteration of the popular music production software, Logic Pro 9 (alongside the upgrade to all its various virtual studio components too), and not much has ...

Count The Beats: Hey DJ, play us a song...

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 29th, 2009)

Here in the UK, it's getting pretty chilly on the willy compared to a month ago, or so. The warm memories of the summer are slowly dwindling to the reality of earlier, darker evenings (the clocks have just gone forward) as well as tentative first visits from our old friend Jack Frost. Generally ...

Count The Beats: Interview with a film & TV composer

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 13th, 2009)

If you've ever played Gears of War 2 (who hasn't), or watched Desperate Housewives (we know you secretly love Mrs Van De Kamp), then chances are you've heard music composed by Pieter A. Schlosser from PaaxMusic in Los Angeles. Pieter's been in the music business for the last five years working ...