Thursday, February 12, 2015

Making Music With Native Instruments Strummed Acoustic - Session Guitarist

I'd been wishing for some solution to allow me to incorporate realistic strummed acoustic guitar sound into my production music tracks. It looks like Native Instruments' new Strummed Acoustic - Session Guitarist product for Kontakt 5 is just the thing.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Samples Now at thisbrucesmith.com

If you've stopped by this blog before, you may have noted links to sample pages on the top menu. Today, I set up a sample page at the main web site, and took down the sample pages from this blog. In case  you're looking for specific styles, I'm leaving the tag cloud in the right column so you can check out posts featuring tracks in those styles. Thanks for stopping by and supporting my work, and please check the main site often for updates and links to this blog.

Sunday, February 1, 2015

thisbrucesmith.com: Now Mobile-Friendly!

I've been working on an upgrade to my main web site, and am happy to report that it's now up and running! Developed with Bootstrap, the site is much more capable of handling different device sizes than the old one was, so please check it out on your phone or tablet, as well as your PC or Mac. Don't miss the featured track for this week, "Spring Into Action!"

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Farewell Edgar Froese

I was thinking I might blog about my experience with the new Mixcraft 7 digital audio workstation this morning, when I saw the news about the death of electronic music pioneer Edgar Froese. Mixcraft can wait.

Monday, January 5, 2015

It's 2015! Are We Having Fun Yet?

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season. I've had a much-needed change of routine and feel ready to roll. So, here are a few things I'm interested in for the new year.