by John mike | Jul 27, 2016 | Ask John Mike, Blog, Technology for Performance Musicians
I consider myself to be a music technology nerd! I spend countless hours each day engrossed in music software and hardware and for the past several years I have dedicated my life and time to both studying and educating people on music tech via several mediums. I have...
by John mike | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog, MainStage 3
MainStage is an amazing program. There isn’t another application out there that can do all mainstage can do. But it’s easy to set things up in a way that is not best for your CPU. I use mainstage every time I play And i typically get about 20-50% of CPU...
by John mike | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog, Homepage, The Minstrel's Blog, Uncategorized
I’m definitely not saying that musicians should not strive to be better…to practice, to perfect etc. I myself put hours of time weekly into practicing and learning and perfecting my craft….Honestly that is a given when it comes to playing any...
by John mike | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog, Homepage, Modern Musician's Dictionary
Now that we know what a Click Track is it’s time to explore the different ways to set them up and play them in a live church service. There are several effective ways to do this and will explore a few different methods in this post. Creating a Click Track The...
by John mike | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Homepage, Modern Musician's Dictionary
So what is MainStage? MainStage is a performance software for musicians that is used to play and or utilize virtual instruments and effects from your computer in a live setting. It is also the sister software to Logic Pro, a digital audio workstation or DAW used...
by John mike | Nov 16, 2014 | Blog, Homepage, Modern Musician's Dictionary
A softsynth is just what it sounds like it’s a software based synthesizer. Hence the word “soft synth” it’s also known as a VST. Softsynths and VSTs are virtual instruments that reside on your computers hard drive and are played by connecting a...
