5 posts tagged “songwriting”

----Michael Stone----

With the release of my cd "Inspired by a true story" I had some people ask me for some more info on how we put together the project. The Podcast below should

give you a little behind the scenes glance into the music.

Thanks for your interest!

---Michael Stone---

Adobe Audition 3 production software is coming Oct. 29th.

Since Adobe bought Syntrillium, and with it Cool Edit, a few years back, the updates have been coming fairly regularly. With each update, Audition has improved features that bring it into serious competition with the likes of Sonar and Pro Tools.

Adobe Audition 3 is for the "sound designer, musician, recording engineer, mastering engineer, or other audiocentric professional who needs an all-in-one toolset for professional audio production."

Adobe offers another audio product, Soundbooth 3, which has fewer bells and whistles, perhaps for the less demanding producer, and at a less demanding price, but more on that later.

Adobe Audition 3 offers 50 real-time audio effects including echo, flange, reverb and others. It also supports ASIO, VST, DirectX, and ReWire.

They improved the mixing window, quick punch in reality there are far too many features for me to discuss here. I have Audition 2.0 and after taking a look at what they have to offer, I'm seriously considering the Adobe Audition 3-Upgrade. Will this replace Sonar 6 Producer for me, probably not, but there are times I can see projects that I may want to use this software for.

In fact Adobe has a pretty nifty features page that will give you a video demonstration on many of the features available. Take a look and decide if it's for you.

---Michael Stone---
Singer-songwriter
Radio Personality
---Observer---
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---Michael Stone---

I dis-like doing covers when playing live. The bottom line is that I only want to play my originals.

Reality check here Michael.

If you want people to give your originals a listen, intersperse them with covers, especially in a bar-club scene.

So, off I go to find some covers that I like and can learn quickly for an upcoming club gig. I found several through some quick Google TAB searches and was off to learn them. That's when I realized they were too high for my vocal range. OK, time to sit down and transpose to my range.

Then I thought, hey is there a transposition tool online. Here I go a Googling, and sure enough, here it is; a transpositon tool online. Enter the chords and lyrics, tell it what key you'd like it in and presto, chango, you've got a transposed version of your song. Pretty cool, huh?

It''ll save you some time. Enjoy!

Michael Stone
Singer-songwriter
Radio personality
---Observer---

--- Michael Stone

Amazon MP3 is Amazon's entry into the digital music business.

You can now download digital tunes with Amazon MP3 .

It's service has no DRM (digital rights management) which means the tunes can be copied and is compatible with Zune and Apple's I-Pod.

A quick look at Amazon's stock price this morning found it hovering around $95 a share. Five years ago you could buy Amazon stock for $15 a share.

Amazon MP3 will be a direct competitor to Apple's I-Tunes and is started with a price war, pricing most downloads a dime cheaper than the dominant music service.

Michael Stone
Singer-songwriter
Radio personality
---Observer---