Electronic Music – Jim Blodget

March 14, 2023

Blodget Music

In 1995 I created an audio CD of my electronic music. At the time I was working on a Macintosh II FX computer and my electronic keyboard was a Roland U-20.

Blodget Music

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Auto Bend with Bells(Jim Blodget)

Anxious Music(Jim Blodget)

Jazz Mania(Jim Blodget)

Mac TV(Jim Blodget)

Boris Music(Jim Blodget)

Stained Glass Fugue(Jim Blodget)

Native Experience(Jim Blodget)

Satori(Jim Blodget)

Industrial Rag(Jim Blodget)

Spinner(Jim Blodget)

Space Toasters(Jim Blodget)

Oh No, Don't Go(Jim Blodget)

Then 'Till Now(Dan Jones and Jim Blodget)

Shadow of a Star(Jim Blodget)

Deep Purple(played by Jim Blodget)

Cast Your Fate to the Wind(played by Jim Blodget)

Maple Leaf Rag(played by Jim Blodget)

Bethena(played by Jim Blodget)

Fur Elise(played by Jim Blodget)

Textbook Toolbox Ad(Jim Blodget)

January 16, 2015

Korg iPad Module

Korg Module

I’m testing a new sound module from Korg that includes a very nice piano sample. Here’s my first test recording.

I think it sounds very much like a real piano. Keep in mind this is all happening on an iPad.The app has a built-in recorder. It can only output as a M4a file however. I had to import the file into iTunes and convert it to MP3 to use it in this blog.

Jim

May 25, 2013

Rambling Thoughts Music

I produced this in real time on my iPad using the Mixtikl app. You can record live in the app and then save it to the clipboard and paste it in another application. I pasted it in MultiTrack DAW and added a fade in and fade out.

January 24, 2013

Casio VL-Tone

In 1981 my mother gave me this Casio VL-Tone musical instrument. It was one of the first electronic musical instruments and (drum roll) it was also a calculator. I still have and it works. It has several instrument sounds and rhythms. It also has the ability to shape your own waveform by setting the ADSR (Attack, Delay, Sustain, and Release). You can record melodies up to 100 notes long and play them back automatically as you played them in or you can play them back one note at a time.

In this sample I used the Swing rhythm and I set the ADSR to sound like a banjo. The instrument has a line out which I connected to my iMac. I recorded in Audacity.

Jim

January 22, 2013

NanoStudio

I’m experimenting with NanoStudio on the Mac. It’s a free sequencing program and it comes with an amazing collection of synthesized drum and instrument sounds. I’m still learning to use the program. This is my first sample mix of Happy Birthday.

Jim

January 19, 2013

Contemplation

My second piece on SoundCloud. Made on the iPad with Mixtikl, Thumbjam, and MultiTrack DAW.

January 17, 2013

Nobody Does It Better

Here’s a bit of music where I did absolutely nothing. None of this is me. I found a PDF of a lead sheet of music for the song “Nobody Does It Better” online which I downloaded and scanned with PhotoScore. I then sent the song file to Sibelius First which is a music notation application. I saved it out as a general MIDI file and imported it into Garageband. This gave me the melody line. I added Garageband loops in other tracks to add drums, bass, and electric piano. Presto, instant music.

Here’s the PDF:

Nobody Does It Better.pdf (76K)

and the resulting MIDI file (saved as AIFF and converted to MP3):

Nobody Does It Better

December 27, 2012

Soundcloud test

Seeing what happens when I link to a SoundCloud page.

Created this piece on the iPad 3 using Mixtikl, Thumbjam, and MultiTrack DAW apps.

Jim