Tag Archives: RPM Challenge

RPM Challenge 2010 Jukebox Now Live

Binary Bebop, the Bangsplat entry to the 2010 RPM Challenge is now live in the RPM Jukebox. You can listen to or download a 128 kbps MP3 of the track. I’ll be putting higher bitrate MP3 version as well as a lossless FLAC version into the web store. The RPM Jukebox is at http://bangsplat.rpmchallenge.com/. You [...]

Binary Bebop

The RPM Challenge 2010 album, Binary Bebop, is officially done and delivered. The physical copy is in the mail and the MP3 has been uploaded into the jukebox. This year they have created custom jukebox URLs. The Bangsplat RPM jukebox can be found here. The 2010 entry will be added soon, but in the meantime, [...]

RPM Challenge 2010 Update

It’s February, which means RPM Challenge. When I wrote about this year’s RPM Challenge previously, I had mentioned plans that all changed when I sat down to create the tracks. Last year, I wrote a synthesizer to generate notes, and developed a 16-tone scale. The score of the piece was intended to develop interesting combinations [...]

Windows: A Virtualized Sound Mess

I prefer the Mac for almost every task, but my main audio editing tools are Sony Sound Forge and Vegas, which are Windows-only. I’ve tried some Mac-based tools, but haven’t been happy with them, and a heavy monetary investment in the Forge/Vegas solution makes switching to the Mac products which do look promising. I use [...]

RPM Challenge 2010

I have signed up to participate in the 2010 RPM Challenge. And I have no idea what to do. The RPM Challenge is a web site that challenges musicians to write, record, mix, and master an album – 10 songs or 35 minutes – in the month of February. I’ve entered the last two years, [...]