Mainstage Mondays: How To Use Patch Busses

This week’s topic isn’t that sexy, but patch busses are an important and interesting part of Mainstage 3, and can solve a lot of small problems.

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7 Warning Signs You Need Collaborators

Most musicians are Lone Rangers. We prefer to trust a chosen few people to be our Tontos, and spend most of our lives toiling in isolation. There's nothing wrong with that, if you happen to be a genius in every area of expertise that it takes to make you a successful musician. Here's my top 7 warning signs that I'm not handing off enough stuff:

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Mainstage Mondays: How to Use the Drawbar Organ

This week I show musicians how to use the drawbars on a Mainstage drawbar organ plugin.

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Sticky Stories and Social Media

remember them much longer. Yet every day I get on my Facebook feed, and I see the same predictable post from my musician friends: check out my page! Like it! GO AHEAD, LIKE IT!! PLEASE!!!!!!!

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10 Really Useful Things Musicians Can Do With Their iPhone (Instead of Playing Video Games

Some of my favorite apps for musicians, and none of them are over 99 cents!

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