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(Sorry for the delay in posting this. I just found it in my “Drafts” folder. Sheesh…)

Isaac Sung forwarded me a Reason song file for Neverending. Find it here.

Thanks, Isaac!

I was talking to a couple of folks today about Sacred Loops and about how it’s a fairly anonymous system. Even back when we had the ability to sign up and submit content directly (which is coming again, I promise you), there were a lot of folks who visited and took advantage of the content but remained nameless. One of the people I talked with suggested having a regular posting about various people who visit and use Sacred Loops. Sounds like a plan, so…

If you’re interested in seeing your mug and a brief story about you and your work here, send me a quick email at kent (dot) kingery (at) sacredloops (dot) org. At a minimum, I’d like to get up a photo, a link to your website or your work (MySpace, etc.), and a brief summary of what you do, tools you use, etc. I’m looking to kick this off in the next week or two, and I’ll probably start with myself as the guinea pig so you can see the format before you commit.

If the idea doesn’t have legs, we’ll find out soon enough. But I’m intrigued by it. I hope you will be, too.

It’s been a little over two years since the last significant release of Max/MSP, the visual programming environment from Cycling ‘74. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Max/MSP for the last decade or so, loving it for its capabilities, hating that I never seem to take the time to really exploit everything its capable of doing. With the introduction of Max 5, I’m vowing to spend more time working with the product.

If you’ve never worked with Max/MSP before, you owe it to yourself to have a look at the introductory video to see what it’s all about. If you’ve used it but let your interest wane over the years, you really need to have another look because of some of the new features. Given the (relatively) cheap upgrade pricing and the very cheap price tags if you’re a student, it’s well worth the investment if you do anything with MIDI and/or audio and control of those things, this is a must-have package.

Download the demo, and take it for a test run. I promise you’ll like it!

Todd Berger over at Enter the Worship Circle has announced a remixing project (of sorts) here. Looks interesting, so go check it out.

You can hear Todd interviewed in a podcast on Chainsaw Weasel.

Neutrino sent me some of his Combinator patches for Reason, along with the following statement:

“So as a note- on synth related patches the mod wheel is usually filter 0 being cut totally and 127 being full signal.
One the Rhodes it controls the amount of tremolo and aftertouch increases the rate of tremolo (genius… I know).
The Rhodes patches also use the free electromechanical refill, if you are registered on propellerheads site you can get it free. If you play Reason live with a keyboard controller that has the usual 8 knobs and 8 buttons- change 4 adjacent knobs to CC71,72,73,74 and 4 adjacent buttons to 75,76,77,78.

I hope you enjoy.”

Find it here.

Thanks much, Neutrino! You gotta love anyone who uses the word “plethora” in a filename…

I’ve made a change to the MIME type settings on the site, and this should correct a file downloading issue within the content pages. Apparently the bit of code I am using to create the content directory dynamically was creating a link for each file that was not triggering the application/octet-stream identifier. The download icon has been working from the beginning; it was the filename link that was messed up.

Thanks to Dan Lukas for pointing this out.

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If you’ve ever played Nintendo’s Animal Crossing, then you know what happens in your house if you stop playing for any period of time. When you start playing again, you’ll find it overrun with roaches (which you have to kill in order to restore order to your house). And thus it is with Sacred Loops.

I’ll post a longer message later, but for now just know that I’m killing roaches.