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Bear edge of the Iowa River., a photo by chaircrusher on Flickr. There’s a frisbee golf course at the edge of the Iowa River on the Iowa City side that wanders into the woods at the water’s edge. This is … Continue reading →

Waking The Dead is a BBC Crime Drama that I watched a lot of last weekend. It is basically the UK version of “Cold Case” but is a lot less gimmicky and a lot more hard-boiled. It’s not quite Prime … Continue reading →

Since going to my sister’s wedding (a week ago today) I have yet to ‘catch up’ on all the blog feeds & such I have in Google Reader. And this morning I just started marking ‘all read’ entire categories. I … Continue reading →

I had a not-enough-coffee moment this morning, where I wanted to look up something about Traktor and instead went to Traktor.com which is a company of film-makers who among other things make commercials. It’s worth going to the site for … Continue reading →

1. Load some audio into a slot. 2. Select ‘Beats’ for the warp mode. 2. Select Transient mode for the Grain resolution 3. Select ‘Off Mode’ for the Transient Loop Mode — icon looks like ‘->|’ 4. Dial Transient envelope … Continue reading →

Lackluster “Portal EP” This is a collection of tracks that was supposed to come out on another label that closed up shop. I offered to do a Creative Commons release for Lackluster. He located the masters (on backups, and backups … Continue reading →

God bless those teutonic DSP elves at NI. Guitar Rig is part of Komplete 6, and it’s tons of fun to screw around with. I of course, went straight for the extreme noise

This is a ‘forgotten draft post’ — something I started writing and then for some reason never posted… so enjoy it 4 months late! http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-ExileOnFingerStreet.mp3 Amongst a certain sort of musician, the big news this week was Native Instruments’ release … Continue reading →

http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-ExileOnFingerStreet.mp3 Amongst a certain sort of musician, the big news this week was Native Instruments’ release of a new Reaktor-based effect called “The Finger”, programmed by Tim Exile. “The Finger” is rather like Sugarbytes Artillery 2: each key on the … Continue reading →

I just recorded this album — Lucas found it at an antique store — and was going to put it up for download but I found out that someone else already did it. UPDATE: I downloaded this file and put … Continue reading →