Archive for October, 2005

Visit from Cipher

Monday, October 31st, 2005

It’s like reunion month or something. I’ve been receiving emails and phone calls from old friends and it’s been nice to hear how people have been doing and what they’ve been up to-come to think of it, this entire year has been filled with these reunions. Yesterday, I met up with Ritchie Argue, […]

Accumulating more iStuff

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I picked up a new power supply for my powerbook last week, since my older one seemed to be malfunctioning. My first thought was that the outlet was bad, but after testing it on two different outlets, I assumed it had died. So I purchased a replacement, and plugged it in (to the […]

PTR-3 Composites

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

So. The good news is that we’ve finished going over the composites for the book. The bad news is that we had absolutely no time to do a thorough pass-through. I’ll apologize in advance for missed errors and such, but overall I think things look pretty good with Power Tools for […]

Reason Drum Kits V2.0

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

The Props have released Reason Drum Kits version 2.0, a refill sample library for Reason 3.0. For those who are not aware of what RDK is or does, it’s basically a massive sampled drum kit library with many velocity layers for dramatic and lively rhythm sequencing. These are not loops, they are straight […]

Tortoise & Daniel Lanois

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Thursday and Friday, my friends from Tortoise were in San Francisco for a couple of days and I had a chance to hang out with them and catch the shows at the Independent. This tour was a little different since the headline act was the legendary Daniel Lanois! Ironically most people don’t […]

Groovebox Music’s Reason Training Videos

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Earlier this year, Groovebox Music introduced a series of video tutorials for Reason which are accessed through a subscription website. For quite sometime now, I’ve been in contact with Asa Doyle of Groovebox Music, and I’ve finally had a chance to go through and check things out.

The video tutorials are nice large […]

Site V4•0 going beta

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

After several weeks of working with wp, i reasonably confident that the new peff dot com site is ready to go live. There is still quite a bit of content missing which will take many weeks to transfer into the database, but the important content is still available.
Thanks to Hami for a […]

Diving Monterey Bay

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

After years of talking about doing it, my friend, Mike, and I finally managed to take a dip into the waters of Monterey Bay. This was a first for both of us. It’s been a few years since I had scuba dived, and for me this was my first shore entry. This […]

Site V4.0 progress

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

After numerous tries, everything is almost finished with the site templates running on Wordpress.Thanks to Hami and others who have given me a crash course in CSS and tweaking WP, things have come together faster than i imagined.
I’m still dealing with the issue of the messageboard. I’ve set up the DC script […]

Visit to Electronic Arts

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

I took a little trip today to visit my friend, Rich who works at Electronic Arts for a game team that developed the upcoming James Bond title. The game is done and is getting ready for X-mas release, so he’s got a bit of downtime to recover from the months of work.
Rich […]

Triptronic TL Series Combis

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

I’ve finally finished up the second longer Triptronic TL24 Combinator patch along with a few example files and posted them up on the Reason Files pages.
These effects are tape loop configurations that emulate a technique of a long tape loop setup concocted by Brian Eno and used extensively by Robert Fripp, commonly called […]