See See Rider – The Pleasures Programmes Live at the Theatre for the New City
June 7, 2014Reprising the show we did a couple of years back, a “leaner” Pleasure Programmes, consisting of Elizabeth Soychak and myself, play a couple of tunes at the Theatre for the New City as part of the Lower East Side Festival on May 23rd. We did a couple of tunes in a packed programme of different…
Corcovado – The Pleasure Programmes Live at the Theatre For the New City
June 7, 2014Reprising the show we did a couple of years back, a “leaner” Pleasure Programmes, consisting of Elizabeth Soychak and myself, play a couple of tunes at the Theatre for the New City as part of the Lower East Side Festival on May 23rd. We did a couple of tunes in a packed programme of different…
Contracting
April 22, 2014Since March, I am now independently contracting to a number of companies doing music and audio DSP and machine learning. This is a great opportunity for me to work with and advise a number of really great companies, particularly small startups, on commercial applications of audio signal processing, machine learning, information retrieval, cloud infrastructure. You…
BreakTweaker released using MediaMined Discover
January 23, 2014iZotope today announced BreakTweaker a drum machine and synth DAW plugin incorporating MediaMined Discover for content based searching of its sample libraries. The video demo does not discuss the feature, but you’ll see the “Discover” button on the Sample window at 1:40 in the video. All of the factory content has been indexed by MediaMined…
Building a Roland 24 pin guitar synth cable
November 5, 2013The first generation of Roland guitar synthesisers used a totally unique 24 pin connector. This was apparently built specifically for Roland and was never used by any other manufacturer. Consequently, the connectors and cables are hard to find and tend to fetch crazy prices on Ebay. Wayne Joness site goes into the issue in depth.…
Setting up an Ibanez IMG-2010 Guitar Synth controller
October 30, 2013I have the joy of owning an Ibanez IMG-2010 Guitar Synth, which can be had quite cheap on Ebay, yet are excellent quality Steinberger style guitars, and originally sold for quite a princely sum. Wayne Joness’ very informative GR-300 site extolls the qualities of this beast in great detail. I’m yet to do the conversion…
Downgrading Apple Airport Express 802.11g (A1084) firmware
October 13, 2013I’ve had an Apple Airport Express 1st Generation, 802.11g model A1084 since new, c. 2004. This has long been superseded by newer versions, and for sometime it was just doing duty for me as a USB print server, not as a router. However, it seems that there is a bug introduced around v6.2 of the…
MediaMined video
June 21, 2013I’m woefully late in pointing this out, but there is now a video done by Matt Hines and Jay Leboeuf explaining MediaMined.
Retro bike light
January 9, 2013I’m a big fan of urban biking, having had the privilege of living in Amsterdam and Paris which are both very bike friendly cities for daily commuting. Returning back to NYC, I got a cast off commuter bike from a neighbour, that after considerable work, I got in working order. Given drivers in NYC are…
iZotope hiring MediaMined interns!
September 6, 2012If you are a budding music or audio engineering undergraduate student, iZotope is hiring paid interns. The work mostly consists of auditioning our systems.