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IHR Episode #65 (Enhanced) – Quantization, Loops, Classical Christmas, and Being a Pro (2008_12_18)

December 18th, 2008 by Derek

 IHR Episode #65 (Enhanced) [00:52:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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with Derek K. Miller and Dave Chick

Last episode of 2008! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. On today’s show: MIDI quantization with Dave, introducing Loopmasters loops with our pal Hens Zimmerman, and recording classical guitar for Christmas with Derek. Plus tons of news and links, and do you need to use Pro Tools to be a pro?

If you can play Enhanced podcasts (AAC enhanced) on your iPod, PlayStation Portable, Apple TV, Xbox 360, TiVo, or Zune, or in iTunes or QuickTime, you’ll find lots of photos and links accompanying this episode.

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• 00:00 Intros
• 01:08 Thanks to our sponsors and affiliates: GoToMeeting, Source Elements, networks at Blubrry and the Home Recording Network, and affiliates zZounds, Amazon, and NCIX. We have a new affiliate at American Musical Supply too — and they ship some items to Canada. When you buy anything through our affiliates, IHR gets a small cut to help pay for hosting and bandwidth.
• 02:00 What’s on today’s show, and personal updates: Dave turns 40, and IHR doesn’t win the Best of 604 award, but Derek’s wife’s podcast Lip Gloss and Laptops does
• 03:53 NEWS: Eddies1Minute.com, MXP4, Transcribe, iPhone music apps, MIDI on the Nintendo DS, a toy instrument sample library, Flash-based music games, and Sonic State’s Top 20 Weirdest Instruments of All Time Ever
• 20:30 IHR 101: Dave on MIDI quantization
• 30:42 REVIEW: Hens Zimmerman from Sounds Good on Loopmasters sample libraries
• 36:06 Derek on recording “What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)” on classical guitar for Christmas
• 43:52 EDITORIAL: Must pros use Pro Tools?
• 50:50 Outros: don’t forget our website, forums, Flickr photo group, and Facebook and MySpace pages
• 52:35 END – see you in 2009!

Credits

Sounds: Our theme music, “Acidic Bond,” is by Steven Dennis in Louisiana, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Steve Herringer in Vancouver.

Pictures: The Home Recording Network “lava lamp” logo is based on an image by und_dann.

Listeners: Please comment on the blog at insidehomerecording.com and head over to the the forums at insidehomerecording.com/forums. Also remember that you can post your photos to the IHR Flickr Group — joining Flickr to share photos is free. We’re also on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.

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This podcast is (c) 2008 by Inside Home Recording under a Creative Commons license creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca

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