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Music Thing has just released the first 25 of the music making tips from the site's readership.

My suggestion's in there. Care to guess which?

Recent Upgrade

I've just upgraded from Logic Pro 7.2 to Logic 8 in the last couple of days. And I'm more impressed than I thought I would be. It's odd, if you read the various support pages and sites, there appear to be a lot of problems, but I hardly found any issues. This is how far I got without reading the manual:  read more »

Let's start with a list and I'll break it apart. It will be useful as a checklist if you're thinking of starting out or if you're thinking of buying a gift for a bass player. With the technical advances over the last couple of decades, the price has dropped so that beginners can achieve a nice sound at starter prices.

Starter kit:  read more »

I hadn't planned to write this article now, but after helping a friend go shopping at the weekend, I felt I had to write it soon. In short, learn to play a new instrument. I've still got some more emulation ideas to write about, but they will wait for a later article.

Why?  read more »

Wish I'd have found the HTML Corrector module for Drupal earlier. I've noticed some odd behaviour in a few places and so I'd restricted my articles to being mainly text-only.  read more »

I've just had my first big issue with Adobe's Lightroom. I still think it's a great product and now that it's past 1.0, a lot of the stability issues have been ironed out. That doesn't mean that they've all gone though. Today, I figured out a way to recover from Lightroom's continual spinning wheel and 100% CPU utilisation.  read more »

Sorry to anyone who's tried to contact us recently. Some of the contact pages haven't been showing the spam filters they should have been. So you may have tried and failed or even tried but it failed later on. If you've contacted us but haven't received anything, please try again. 

I'm likely to be upgrading the filters in the next few weeks. But this particular issue was out of my control.  read more »

I like to upgrade one thing at a time, knowing that I can reverse the upgrade at any point if possible. I like the look of Apple's Logic Studio 8. At the price, it's got to be the best value DAW currently on the market. I'm using Logic Pro 7.2 and relatively happy with it, but I'm beginning to feel the pull towards the upgrade.  read more »

As I've posted before, I want to continue to post details of what changes I make to this site to give readers an idea of what they'd have to do to achieve the functionality. Design is another issue, I'm sure you can do better than this.  read more »