If you’re a non-geek, you might have missed Apple's announcement of their new line of MacBook Pros this week. After almost two years with no updates, Apple opted for what was a marginal upgrade in most areas (minus a few notable features).
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As most of you know that read this blog faithfully, I took a break for the first time in 4 years from blogging each week to rethink how I’m doing my blog. A lot of you wrote me with words of encouragement, and that means so much to me. I did a lot of thinking, and asked a few of my closest friends for input.
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MainStage has a slightly confusing layer of MIDI mappings that I haven’t seen talked about much online (probably because it’s so geeky). It’s possible with MainStage to assign specific MIDI CC values to on screen controls at the Layout mode. Why is this confusing? It’s also possible to assign controllers at the edit mode, as well. Before this gets too techy, here’s the advantage to each:
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For the last 4 years I’ve posted at least three blog posts a week every week. I’m really proud of that. It takes a lot of effort to be consistent through the major changes that have happened in the last few years.
Today I’m breaking my streak. Starting with this blog, I’m running a one-week no-blog experiment to see whether blogging is something that I will to keep doing.
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This is one of the best guides I've seen in years on how to relax your hands while playing keyboard. By the way, if you haven't subscribed to Keyboard Magazine, it's about a buck a month and easily the best dollar you'll spend on honing your craft as a keyboardist.
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