James Gilbert MusicAs previously announced, I’m releasing a new Christmas CD – A New Old Christmas. This consists of several familiar carols and holiday favorites set in some new ways. It contains a variety of styles so there is sure to have titles that everyone will like. This would be a good album for the family to […]
I’m not sure if anyone actually reads this or not, but I hope someone does. I wanted to let those that are interested know that I’m still around & busy with music projects. That’s one reason I’ve not posted in a while. The main reason I’ve not posted is that I’m not getting any feedback […]
Among my regular activities as a musician, I was hired to work on special MIDI project. I thought you might be interested to hear some of the details. There are a number of churches that have organs but nobody to play them. Many of the organs are midi capable but the midi files they can […]
iPad music apps See also an updated article HERE If you have some time, please listen to my music on iTunes (Click here) This is a followup to my previous blog about sheet music apps for the iPad. My favorite and the app I use the most for viewing sheet music is still forScore. If […]
Komplete Ultimate 9 Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate For those that might be new to the world of creating music all on your computer or new to the world of synthesis and sampling, I thought a brief mention of what I use would be in order. There are many very good comparable products available from many […]
Introduction to Music for those wanting to become musicans, or improve their musicianship Conclusion I hope this Introduction to Music series has been helpful. While it is obviously not a comprehensive look at all there is to music notation and music theory, if you know this stuff, you have a great amount of tools to […]
Driver Plugin Native Instruments came out with a free (through 12/31/2012) plugin called Driver. I did a first-look video of it on YouTube [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd2VZsK6btM] Hope you enjoy it. Please check out my website for free sheet music and links to all 6 of my currently available albums.
UPDATE January 2016. Miroslav Philharmonik version 2 was released in December 2015. Based on the SampleTank 3 engine, the user interface is a thousand times better than the version reviewed below. I can actually use it without having to pull out the magnifer. There are new sounds and key-switching instruments are also provided. The instruments […]
Update May 2013. See this followup article If you have some time, please listen to my music on iTunes (Click here) I’ve uploaded a video showing three iPad apps that I find useful as supplemental material when teaching my piano students. When I downloaded them, they were all free apps. QF Notes is a basic […]
Sheet-Music programs for the iPad See yet another followup article Update May 2013: See this followup article If you have some time, please listen to my music on iTunes (Click here) Introduction As mentioned in a previous post, my aging and no longer supported MusicPad Pro tablet that I had been using for the past […]
Background For about 9 years I’ve been using the MusicPad Pro as a way to view my sheet music rather than carry around dozens of books of music. The MusicPad is a 10×14 inch tablet with only 1022×766 resolution at I believe 72 (possibly 96) dpi. It weighs nearly 5 pounds. All it did was […]
Organizing Digital Sheet Music Introduction I have thousands of sheet music titles in either PDF, freehand/musicpad or Sibelius format. All can easily be formatted to standard letter size PDF files which are great for printing out and viewing on an iPad or a computer screen. So, PDF format seems to be the logical choice as […]
New Videos I’ve posted several new videos on YouTube. You can view all of them at My YouTube Channel Here’s a look at a few of them. First, another music video with fractal art I created. I have some rendered 3-d artwork and fractal images. The background music is a new piece “How Perfect Love Is” […]
Back in December, 2011 I took some photos and some video (not so great video) of a 130 foot (or so) pine tree being cut down. I put the photos and videos together. I added some original music I sell at my website and posted a video on YouTube: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FprtmK98eg?hl=en&fs=1] The pine tree was […]