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Using iPads as digital music stands and instruments

Recently my church, literally the people of the church, gifted me an iPad 2. This was an incredible surprise and blessing as I’ve wanted one for a LONG time. Now that my band is armed with a couple iPads it seemed appropriate to explore how these devices could help organize us on stage and also [...]

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Promo video for the iPhone app I work on

Many of you are aware that I don’t get paid for ministry work, I am what I like to call, full time volunteer. Yesterday I made a promo video for the iPhone app I work on that pays the bills. I did the soundtrack in GarageBand, great for quick little beats. If you are interested [...]

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How to create your own click track in Garage Band

I created a screencast to show you just how easy it is to create your own click tracks in Garage Band. You might also be interested in my post on an OSX BPM widget that lets you tap out the BPM for songs in your iTunes library. You can click through to the video on [...]

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Why should I consider using loops in my worship service?

I deal a lot with worship loops on this site as you may have noticed. More and more worship leaders are becoming interested in using loops but many still don’t see the point, think it’s too complicated or a waste of time, or don’t understand why anyone would use instruments that aren’t live. All of [...]

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How to setup your Mac laptop for live audio

This site talks a lot of using loops in worship and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how to setup your laptop for playing any kind of audio live off your Mac. This posts focuses on mac because if you are relying on a windows machine to play any kind of live [...]

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Tool Tip: BPM Counter widget for Mac OSX

When working with loops and click tracks one thing you need to know and preferrably know quickly is the beats per minute(BPM) of the song. I use this widget constantly to quickly get the BPM of a song I’m listening to in iTunes. All you need to do is install it, then play the song [...]

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What my late night of sequencing looks like

This is late, late Saturday night when what I thought would take me 3hrs to program is taking me 6hrs+. I hadn’t even started on guitar work yet, so I spared you the real mess. The problem when recording late at night is you settle for garbage. You get tired and settle, I hate that. [...]

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Video: iDrum app for iPhone walkthrough

The UI on this is pretty slick, quite apple’ish in fact. $5 seems quite reasonable as well, they have 2 versions, the Hip-Hop Edition and Club Edition.   iDrum for iPhone from Art Gillespie on Vimeo. [via Synthtopia]

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