I haven’t posted any updates since the last song was completed, partly because I’ve been busy on several new songs. One is a guitar and synth instrumental that I may post as a finished piece. I’m also considering turning it into a lyrical song, but so far I’ve only toyed with some possible melody lines. [...]

So now I’ve posted the latest song, “And I Found Myself.” It began as a suggestion that I make another acoustic piece, which resulted in the acoustic guitar loop that runs throughout the song. After I wrote the lyrics, I had a verse-chorus-break that I needed to set apart in the music. I worked on [...]

After completing “Blah Blah Blah” on the Nintendo DSi, I played the demo songs that came with the game and became curious how they accomplished some of the effects I heard. I discovered a feature of the song sequencer where you can mute different instruments as each pattern plays, instead of having to make separate [...]

My previous post mentioned the Korg DS-10 Plus software for the Nintendo DSi. This past week I experimented to see what I could create using the features I understood already. I was surprised at the complexity I could achieve. The program doesn’t do looping per se, but you can record “patterns,” then arrange them in [...]