Barack Obama On 60 Minutes

President-elect Barack Obama’s first major interview since election. He seems very confident and able to handle the hard challenges ahead. This week he has been working on making sure that on a national security stand point, the transition from Bush to Obama is as seamless as possible. He has also been working on attacking the economic crisis and provides his reasoning for supporting the auto-maker bailout.

Then Michelle comes in and they talk about the big move to the white house.

WE’RE MOVING ON UP!

Enjoy,

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NEW TRACK: MY MUSIC

Here’s another original track, written, performed and produced by me, called MY MUSIC. This is my definition of the one, that special woman, the one i’ve been looking for….MY MUSIC!


Take in the words, the melodies, and the vibe…this is a GREAT track. HIPHOP SOUL!


“You are my queen chick, some niggaz call you soul mate but me….i call you MUSIC”



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PRO TOOLS 8…a sneak peek!

If you are one of the MANY people impatiently waiting for Pro Tools 8, here is a sneak peek of what you can expect:

- 10 inserts (5 more than previous versions)
- Grid lines show through audio regions
- Meter markings on the mix faders
- Insertion Follows Playback button (yes, its not the “N” key mystery anymore)
- Waveforms are shown in higher resolution
- Customizable tool bars at the top of the Edit window (which can be saved in a Windows Configuration)
- Universe window is docked and resizable
- Time Lock feature allows you to edit a region without it in time
- MIDI Scrub tool
- Elastic Pitch tool
- MIDI Editing window (can be either a separate window or a docked window)
- MIDI Smart tool — this makes editing MIDI SO MUCH EASIER!!!
- MIDI notes shown with lighter color have lower velocities, darker colored notes have higher velocities
- 64 sample buffer size for USB interfaces
- Video Satellite (use a separate computer for viewing HD video, connected via ethernet)
- When launching, PT asks whether you want to create a new session, open a session, or start with a template
- at least 30 template files (.ptt files)
- Pressing SHIFT while opening a session makes all plug-ins inactive

OK, that’s a big list… but not enough to warrant PT8 status. Good thing there are a million more improvements…

PT8 comes with 5 new FREE virtual instruments:
1. Mini Grand - 1.5GB worth of great sounding piano
2. DB33 - B3 organ with a convolution modeled Leslie cab (which can be used as a standalone effect, sans the B3)
3. XPand2 - a serious upgrade to XPand! with 2GB of sounds and 1500 patches
4. Vacuum - mono synth with gnarly tube sounds
5. BOOM - an analog style drum machine

In addition, you also get Eleven Free (light version of their awesome guitar amp simulator) and Structure Free (light version of their sampler)… in addition to a whole slew of new effects plug-ins. Its quite a big offering. In fact, it all adds up to 9GB for the entire PT software package.

BUT WAIT… there’s more.

First, there’s track comping… where you can record in Loop Record and each take is recorded onto a new playlist. Then, you can open and view multiple playlists for one track all in the Edit window. Making a comp between playlists is now even easier. No more switching between edit playlists. Then, there are “Automation Lanes,” which show any or all automation for a track on separate “lanes” at the same time. Draw volume, panning, and mute automation at the same time. No more switching between automation playlists.

And finally… yes, we’re finally getting to the end of the improvements… the Score Editor. Yup, PT has notation now, driven by the Sibelius engine. You can view the Score Editor as a separate window or as a docked window and edit on the page just like editing MIDI. Print and/or save your score as a PDF. The Score Editor doesn’t have all the complexity of Sibelius, but you can easily export directly into Sibelius for further tweaking.

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Using the Pro Tools Disk Allocation Window

here is a interesting post i found on Music for Games, Films, and other Visuals about disk allocation in Pro Tools.

“In the PT101 class, this week’s lesson involves working on saving and not saving sessions after recording to investigate how Pro Tools deals with all of the various audio you use in a session. One of the things that happens during the lesson, is that some audio is stored in one folder while other audio may be stored in another folder.

How does this happen?

Well, every session has a defined “disk allocation” setting that is stored with it. If you have started with a “new” session, the disk allocation is automatically set to what is considered the “root media” folder. From the help file we read:

“By default, Pro Tools records audio files to the Audio Files folder inside the session folder. You can use the Disk Allocation window to specify other locations for your audio files for each audio track.”

In practice, this means if you open the application and create a new session the “root media” folder will be set to the new PT session folder created for this project. In this screenshot, we can see I have created a new session on my hard drive (which is named “Projects”). What the Disk Allocation window is telling me, is that all new audio recorded will be saved inside the audio files folder inside the session folder which is on the projects drive.

Note that the disk allocation can be set for individual tracks! This is used on very large sessions where one drive can not provide the throughput or bandwidth to physically playback (or record) all of the tracks at one time.

Now, things start to get messy when you start moving sessions from one system or even one drive to another. If I save this session, and use the OS to copy it to a new area on my hard drive or a new hard drive entirely, I will create potential problems for myself. The reason for this, is that the PT session file will remember where the original audio files folder was located and continue to write new files to that location!

So the safe way, to move sessions, is either to use the Save Session Copy menu item or, if a session has been moved/copied in another way, use the Disk Allocation setup to set the correct audio files folder to record into.”

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Music for video games (orchestras)

If you are into video game orchestras, then check this out.

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Cycles in music

David Kusek talks about the Past, Present and Future of Music. In order to be successful in this business in the 21st century, you HAVE to have a good grasp of the history of the music business as a whole. I am currently reading “The Future Of Music” and i can tell you guys that David Kusek is very knowledgeable in this field.

The future of the music business in going digital. The sooner you accept it, the better you will be positioned for the transition. Check out this video….i will be posting more soon.

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Styles P - Herion Bars

Street Video for Styles P - Herion Bars. Off the Styles P - Phantom. Gangsters Chronicles Vol. 1 . In stores now!

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Sick freestyle on Sirius

Cory Gunz, Charles Hamilton, & Mickey Factz Freestyle On Sirius Radio!

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Why you should vote

Remember those guys who did the “wasssup” commercial for Budweiser? Well they are back and they went political. Here’s a funny video about the current situation going on in the states.
Enjoy!

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NOTORIOUS

Check out the trailer for the upcoming movie about Notorious B.I.G.

Overview
Director:George Tillman Jr.
Writers (WGA):Reggie Rock Bythewood (written by) and Cheo Hodari Coker (written by)
Release Date: 16 January 2009 (USA) more
Genre:Biography | Drama | Music
Plot: The life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.

Cast

Angela Bassett … Voletta Wallace
Derek Luke … Sean Combs
Anthony Mackie … Tupac Shakur
Charles Malik Whitfield … Wayne Barrow

Kevin Navayne … Junior Mafia Crew

Marc John Jefferies … Lil Cease
Jamal Woolard … Notorious B.I.G.
Naturi Naughton … Lil Kim

Antonique Smith … Faith Evans

Sean Ringgold … Suge Knight

Kevin Phillips … Mark

Ginger Kroll … Debbie

Ebony J Lewis … Bad Boy Entourage

Julia Pace Mitchell … Jan

Osas Ighodaro … Howard University Party Girl

Mohamed Dione … Motown Record Executive

Dennis L.A. White … Damion ‘D-Roc’ Butler
Shawntay Dalon … Howard University Audience Memeber

Usman Sharif … Gee

Valence Thomas … 50 Grand

Rico Devereaux … Puffy’s Bodyguard #1

Edwin Freeman … Mister Cee

Robert Oppel … Pool Player

Norman Wakefield … Suge Knight crew

Corey Hibbert … Money Man
Jen Steele … Groupie
Mike Hurt … Crackhead #1
Duane Nakia Cooper … Howard University Emcee
Brandon A. Bailey … FAN#1
Tim ‘Single’ Braddock … Rap Battle Host
Donald Calliste … Larceny - Junoir Mafia Crew

Check out IMDb for more info

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