Passed the Pro Tools 210m test today – I am now a Pro Tools Certified Operator (Music). Thanks to everyone at Pyramind for all their help!

I’ll be teaching 2 weekend-long courses at Pyramind in San Francisco, October and November:

Electronic Music Production with Reason 4

Sat/Sun Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 ::: 1-5 PM

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Advanced Audio Production with REASON & RECORD

Sat/Sun Nov. 21-22 ::: 1-5 PM

Get more information and sign up here: www.pyramind.com/weekend

I’ll be leading a seminar at SAE San Francisco tomorrow, August 27:

T-RackS Master Class with production from SampleTank

This is a free class, plus all attendees will get some cool free IK Multimedia stuff!

Sign up here

SAE San Francisco

I had a chance to engineer a session this week at Broken Radio studio (formerly Coast/Toast) with the legendary Rachid Taha and Hakim Hamadouche. The song we were tracking is a duet with Rachid and Nader DeAik and will be on Nader’s next CD. Big thanks to Matt and especially Carly at Broken Radio for all their help.

Here are a couple clips of of Rachid and Hakim in action:

Yamis
Barra Barra

The “Ableton Live: The Essentials” video course I created for HowAudio.com is now available as a DVD for $19.95. This is over 5 hours of instruction, tips and all sorts of useful information on one of my favorite music production and sequencing programs.

Buy it here: Ableton Live: The Essentials DVD

This year’s San Francisco Clash/Joe Strummer Tribute show is taking place at the Bottom of the Hill on Sunday, December 7 at 6:30 PM. These are always a great time and this year it’s for a great cause, Strummerville – the Joe Strummer Foundation for new music.

“Set up by the friends and family of Joe Strummer in the year after his death, the charity seeks to reflect Joe’s unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them.” Find out more at www.strummerville.com.

This year’s line-up is:

The Armagideons
Eric McFadden
The Hooks
Rubberside Down
The Dead Ringers
Ferocious Few

Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
10 bucks
Doors at 6:30

The Armagideons is Cliff Truesdell & Clint Blatchford (Black Furies), Ralph Spight & Jon Weiss (Jello Biafra & The Spineless Yesmen)  and Brent Johnson (Three Day Stubble/Mono Pause). The show starts off at 6:30 and we go on last at 9:30.

Check out the new CD from Nader Deaik here! This a pretty awesome disc that involved a lot of hard work. We did most of the writing in my home studio and all of the tracking at Take Root with a lot of great musicians and engineers. Definitely a team effort. I got to play guitar, bass and piano and also did most of the drum programming and sequencing. Nader is starting to get worldwide airplay and has been doing some pretty high profile gigging lately. More info is available on Nader’s MySpace page.

I’ve got a new Ableton Live video course available at www.HowAudio.com – this one has everything you need to know to start making music with Live 7. There are two free quickstart movies that you can check out and HA now has three different price plans to choose from – Annual, Monthly and a Sampler plan where you can sign up for two months for only $30…

I’ve started a new YouTube channel for Making Music with OS X. For the next few months the focus will be expanding on subjects covered in Introducing Reason 4. The video I’ve just posted shows a cool way to use Reason 4 via ReWire to create loops in Ableton Live. I’ll also be posting direct links to higher quality versions of each movie for download soon.

Making Music with OS X on YouTube