mistrustmusic's posterous http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com Most recent posts at mistrustmusic's posterous posterous.com Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:11:51 -0800 Farewell, Motif! http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/farewell-motif http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/farewell-motif After much soul-searching and discussions with Mrs Mistrust long into the night, I've decided to sell the wonderful Yamaha Motif XS6 that I recently won on the Music Tech Magazine forum promotion. It's a brilliant keyboard and I could spend hours playing on it, but the problem is that I just haven't got any HOURS or minutes to use it. With all the stuff that's going on at home with Paul, my stepson, and his Autism, the only chance to make music is for about 10 minutes a week on my laptop, sitting in front of the TV, waiting for Paul to get ready for me to talk on his regular evening ride. This situation isn't going to change for the forseeable future, so I'd rather the synth went to a good home. I can use the cash to upgrade my laptop and take my family on holiday. The Yamaha Motif XS6 is currently listed on ebay.co.uk if anyone's interested....

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Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:19:43 -0800 Where have all the musicians gone? http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/where-have-all-the-musicians-gone http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/where-have-all-the-musicians-gone  I'm still concerned about the apparent lack of musicians who run blogs on Wordpress and (ahem) Blogger, in fact all the other major blogging sites. Come to think of it, there don't seem to be many "bands that blog" on Myspace these days. When I've looked under the "music" tag on Wordpress, the majority of links and headlines that appear are usually from people commenting about their favourite tracks or all-time 100 love songs, something like that. Not a lot from either established acts or bedroom musicians like me. Why's that? Why not blog, all ye musos of the world? I must be missing something. I'll be they all run blogs on their own websites. That's it. Must be the answer. So, here's the challenge: If anyone knows of either established acts who run blogs on Wordpress (or Blogger) comment back and I'll add them (and you) to my blogroll. If you look at this  blog regularly, you'll notice my capacity for dissatisfaction with my blog theme. I think the people who design the themes are very clever, but the ones on offer at Wordpress.com don't really suite the needs of a downtempo/chillout musician. I've chosen the "blue" one this time, and added my own header (a crop from Music Tech magazine's announcement of me winning the Yamaha keyboard - see thread below). Well, it's different to all the clouds and rivers and flowers, and other pretty pictures. No doubt I'll get bored and go for pink or something soon. I used to frequent a website and forum called "Electromancer", where I uploaded my first "modern" tracks ("Never Alone" included), and where I got a lot of support and inspiration to make more tunes. Sadly, Electromancer folded (read about it in my old blog) and most of its members went over to a site called Nervejam, where they all continue the spirit of support, inspiration (and tomfoolery) and make nice tunes. I'm mentioning Nervejam because the site admin (Nervejam, himself) has changed my profile name/avatar to something that I really like and which I've decided to adopt as my byline on this blog (thanks NJ).... YammyGit Talking of which, you can now listen to this and all my other blog posts in MP3 format. I've got a RSS feed going off to Talkr.com which produces all my posts in audio format with a weird-sounding, automated female sounding voice. I guess I now have my own podcast. Rather than having "listen" blocks in every previous post, there's a link to all of the "podcasts" here at TruMix. Have a listen - it's really quite bizarre.....

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Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:47:04 -0800 I've won a Yamaha Motif XS6 workstation! http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/ive-won-a-yamaha-motif-xs6-workstation http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/ive-won-a-yamaha-motif-xs6-workstation And it's absolutely amazing!!!! I won it in a promo that Music Tech magazine were running on their new Studionet forum. I went down to Yamaha's R&D offices in West London yesterday and got the official Yamaha training from one of their product specialists. I spent most of yesterday afternoon grinning like an idiot after hearing the sounds the Motif can make and just how incredible the whole thing is. I think I can seriously say goodbye to making music on Acid Pro from now on! It seems to be able to do everything - it's got 355MB of ROM for the internal sounds, 6000 arpeggios, song and pattern-based recording, backup over Ethernet, full integration with Cubase 4. I can predict some long nights over Christmas getting to grips with this thing!!!!
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This is my first post in two months - more about what's been happening later this month. Needless to say, it hasn't been very pleasant.... At least I'll have a nice Christmas present!

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