Great horn section tonight!

FYI... this doesn't mean the price of gold is skyrocketing. This means the USD is tanking.

So... hear me out. What if? Steinberg buys up NI. 😀 Kontakt merges with Halion. RX folds into Spectral Layers. It feels like a real solid business decision for Yamaha/Steinberg to absorb large portions of the market. They are one of the few companies that could handle it well.

The Moon

Read this comment and couldn't agree more.... "Since 2021, Native Instruments has been majority owned by Francisco Partners, a large US based private equity firm." Private equity ownership is NEVER a good thing, especially for the customers and employees.

Tech brilliance. #resist nazis.us

My first ever Deep Space photo with and without bad processing by me. I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's fun.

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

It saddens me that this is the most engagement I've had on Bsky. Political vitriol feedback loop central. Guess I could quip for clout here by dropping more obviously agreeable statements Do you recall the days of Sound-Twitter? We talked about craft and art. 😭 #betterTimes

Literally just read a statement from a UK politician... under Trump the USA is becoming an enemy state. We live in a cartoon. How can partisan loyalty be this strong? He is unhinged, but they stay loyal and oblivious to his failed character. I will never understand that.

What are the opinions? UA will continue to support the old DSP platform and require that for some plugins, or UA is in the process of going fully native and dumping all DSP development for the old SHARC chips

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Bandcamp blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

$50k signing bonus is just 30 pieces of silver, accounting for inflation.

Join me in saying THANKS and CONGRATS to Warren Lee, the stranger who so kindly purchased my Sputnik Spectral Processor on Reverb. It's because of their GAS that we're now going to try something else for our GAS... The Frap Tools Fumana!!! (also a spectral processor)

I need a great M/S encode and decode plugin. Voxengo has been discovered to produced distortion and signal vairance compared to manual matrix (in daw duplication and phase) Are there any great Mid Side plugins?

I think this is the real economic indicator stat of this era.

Recap... The US kidnapped the leader of another country last night. The "plan" is that Trump will run that country too. Details dont really change the big picture summary. That's just what happened.

Reviewing artist data for a project. Nothing changed... but the marketing. The music was the same. The lesson for musicians: Most often good music does not rise up naturally. Having a great track will not be enough. You must advertise and market beyond posting relentlessly on social media.

Happy NYE yall.

Perfect Circuit is giving away an Osmose MPE controller. wn.nr/JmEy9zG

Bastl Bestie had a rattle. Open up to find a loose glob of solder. Good to remove imo! Peep the circuit. Lovely little monster.

Testing the new piano. Wish a real pianist was here... hope you will forgive my improv noodling but check out the tones! Schoeps MK2 wide in the first example. Schoeps MK4 + AEA R84 ribbon as MS pair on other two samples. Happy with this upright! Good studio tool. samply.app/p/leG4Yhivf5...

Merry Christmas to all youtu.be/esoXRPoPFMg?...

The knowledge of Adobe lives and dies with millennials

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Any veteran Trello users here? Experimenting with this tool for task/project organization. Seems interesting and helpful. Trying to learn more about email-forwarding to Trello and its ability to parse info into cards. Whats your xp with this feature and platform?

Everytime someone says "industry standard" as a mark of quality, I remind my fellow humans... industry standard is often the lowest form of acceptable quality. Behold.... the "industry standard" cheeseburger.

Fast enough?

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

After owning a piano for a few weeks... I am certain about one thing. Any human who can burn at stride piano is to be respected equally to the highest level of any physical achievement. youtu.be/UiWNBpnJfr8?...

The truth of Ai.... All the chatter. The chicken little comments AND the promise of future powers... Its more Technocrat PR than reality.

Tis the season for orchestra concert recordings, radio broadcasts, and live streaming concerts. Here's the "small rig" for this weekend.

Look at this beauty! Been searching for the right piano for a couple years. Finally found it. Yamaha U3 from 1970. A few cabinet blemishes but it sounds fantastic!

Studio owner Alchemy is converting two Gelenec 1032a and a couple of guitar pedals into a 1970 Yamaha U3

Running audio setup via Dante is NOT something I'd recommend. It's buggy in Windows Network sort of ways. Yes... "it works" ... most of the time. Stabilizing the network is very Window 98 workload. It should all be more solid and robust than it is.

I happily quit Spotify two years ago. No regrets.

My personal advice on business? Don't do any deals/work/jobs for friends, family, or neighbors.

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

And here I am. Needing the iPad to be a real tool with audio output via 3.5mm AND I need to charge the thing. But.... at least Apple reduced cost and increased shareholder value.

Recording and live mixing full orchestra this weekend is a highlight reel thing for me. Tune in this Sat to WDAV for the hear the broadcast. Geffel mains. Schoeps outriggers. Spot mics around as needed. Great sounding hall. Top talent musicianship. wdav.org/program/char...

Dear fellow musicians, The recording studio is not a place of pixie dust and miracles. You wont get magic on the first take and will be REQUIRED to work hard to create the perfect version of your music. This is not a Santa Clause process. It's not a money commitment. It's a workplace. Do work.

"Collector's Edition" of a high priced studio tool says a lot about humans and the industry at large.

Really wise insights and positive thinking by MylarMelodies. youtu.be/NvQF4YIvxwE?...

#recordingstudio #BTS

Every football fan should have the option to mute Chris Collinsworth commentary.

I wonder what the collective studio billing hours were incurred while guiarists struggled to retune a Floyd Rose trem system? Globally for all time? My guess is 1000s of hours but it could be 10x or more. Thank you Floyd Rose.

Premiere for a film we mixed/designed. Always fun to attend these screenings.