I have carpal tunnel syndrome. And chances are if you’re reading this you do too. Here I’ll provide some carpal tunnel syndrome solutions that musicians can use to improve the quality of their life, and minimize the time away from their musical endeavors, caused by this terrible scourge of a condition. My carpal tunnel symptoms aren’t really triggered by performing …
Carpal Tunnel Solutions for Musicians – Interacting with Instruments
In my last carpal tunnel solutions for musicians article, I went over how to interact with computers at work or in the studio, for those that derive most of their carpal tunnel symptoms from heavy computer work. In this article, we’ll focus on carpal tunnel solutions with regard to interacting with musical instruments. This opinion article is for informational purposes …
Royalty Free Symphonic Music Free to Download
Below you will find royalty free symphonic music that content creators, and listeners, can download for free. The music is in mp3 format. This music was produced with AI on the Udio platform by Andrew Feazelle. Still, attribution is required when using the tracks. If you’re looking for an alternative to Artlist, Epidemic Sound, Envato Elements, Soundstripe, or other royalty …
Best Headphones for Orchestral Music Production
This article will focus on the best headphones for orchestral music production with regard to orchestral sample libraries. The best headphones for this type of orchestral music production, because of their neutral frequency response curves for those frequencies utilized by an orchestra, and their ability to produce an adequate soundstage effect, allowing you to hear the instruments originating from their …
Andrew Feazelle – Music Composition Awards
Andrew Feazelle’s classical music compositional awards occurred during the era he was most active in the classical music community: 2006 to 2015. Compositional Awards Time Frame 2006 marked the first year Feazelle had stopped perusing film music writing, secondary to a permanent carpel tunnel injury sustained a few years earlier, which made it painful to work the 16 hour days …
How to set up Korg nanoKONTROL2 for Orchestral Sample Libraries
Here’s how to set up a Korg NanoKontrol2 MIDI control surface on Windows 11 Pro, with Digital Performer 11, or other similar DAW’s. This setup will be solely used for controlling the expression, dynamics, vibrato, volume, etcetera, of the instruments in an orchestral sample library, via the MIDI continuous control messaging sent by manipulating the unit’s faders. I won’t go …
How to Write a Symphony
The holy grail of classical music writing, and the one format that separates its practitioners’ true masters from those of a less accomplished status, is the symphony for full orchestra. Even Beethoven who had been writing music since he was 11 years old didn’t complete his first symphony until he was 29. Vaughn Williams didn’t complete his until he was …
How to Build a Music Production Computer
Welcome to my article on how to build a music production computer! In it, I’ll first give you the references needed to build a PC in general. Then I’ll cover tips on the pre-building process, as it pertains to music production. There I’ll also give you a parts list to my particular music production PC build, that is powerful enough …
How to Install an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 on a LGA 1700 CPU and Motherboard
Below are specific instructions and build notes on how to install an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 on a LGA 1700 CPU and motherboard. The manufacture’s instructions in some places weren’t clear to me, hence I’ve written this post as a supplement to them. This is part of my ‘How to Build a Music Production Computer’ series, where I show …
Do You Need a Graphics Card for a Music Production Computer?
So do you need to include a graphics card when building a powerful music production computer? One for running large orchestral sample libraries with several plug-in effects happening on a digital audio workstation (DAW)? The short answer is that it’s not an absolute necessity to have a GPU for your music production computer, especially if you’ll be using your computer …