Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, also known as Rod y Gab, released their latest studio album, Area 52, this past January, and are currently touring Europe to promote the record, with dates in the United States in April. The pair worked with arranger and pianist Alex Wilson on the album, which saw them travel […]
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Winter workshops in Washington state
Mike Klinger, the founder and proprietor of the Synthesis MIDI Workshop in Portland, Oregon, has been teaching music technology and helping educators and institutions make the most of music technology for more than 40 years. Ten years ago, he fulfilled a life-long dream to have a dedicated facility in which to teach and exhibit best […]
Sibelius and Pro Tools seminar for students in Sydney
My friend Katie Wardrobe (@katiesw1) got in touch to tell me about a two-day student seminar that will be taking place at the beautiful Trackdown Scoring Stage in the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park, Sydney this coming January, during the long holiday for high school students. Katie, herself a former Avid employee with years of […]
What Pro Tools 9 means for Sibelius users
Last Thursday, at the 129th Audio Engineering Society Convention in San Francisco, California, Avid unveiled a major new release of its industry-standard audio and music production software, Pro Tools. As a Sibelius user, you may have heard about this news already, but decided that it doesn’t mean anything to you. You may already have another […]
Headliner.fm: “Nobody does it better than Sibelius”
The fine folks at Headliner.fm have written a blog post running down 10 essential programs for musicians. In with a bullet at number 8 is Sibelius 6, about which Nick from Headliner writes: When it comes to notation software, nobody does it better than Sibelius. This intelligent and highly capable program allows you to score […]
Howard Goodall: “My two best friends are Sibelius 6 and Pro Tools 8”
Russ Hughes of the AIR Users Blog, an excellent blog dedicated to supporting users of the virtual instruments and effects produced by AIR, Avid’s dedicated team of plug-in developers, has posted an interview with composer Howard Goodall. In the interview, Howard discusses his journey to becoming a well-known composer, his compositional approach, and the kit […]
An afternoon at Abbey Road Studios
The world-famous zebra crossing outside the equally world-famous Abbey Road Studios in St John’s Wood, north London, was thronging with tourists as usual, local motorists waiting with an air of polite resignation as people strode across the road, stopping halfway to pose for their friend standing on the pavement holding a camera. The gateposts outside […]
Avatar composer James Horner: “Without Sibelius, we’d be lost”
Check out this fantastic video taking you behind the scenes on the scoring and sound design of James Cameron’s Oscar-winning blockbuster, Avatar, which became the highest-grossing movie in history in an astonishing 20 days. And if you are one of the millions of people around the world who has seen the film, you will have been […]
Composer Blake Neely on HBO’s The Pacific
This Sunday sees the US broadcast on HBO of the first episode of a major new ten-part miniseries called The Pacific. The Pacific is perhaps the spiritual successor to Band of Brothers, itself a ten-part adaptation of the book of the same name by American historian Stephen E. Ambrose. While Band of Brothers told the […]
Sibelius and Pro Tools come together in “The Fire and the Flood”
My pal John Hinchey was kind enough to send me a copy of Leticia Wolf’s new album, The Fire and the Flood, which is available now on iTunes. Among his many talents, John is a brass and string arranger extraordinaire, and worked on four songs on Leticia’s new album, including Comfortable in Hell, which eagle-eared […]