Some of you may have noticed that MLR had a big spam attack. I recently loosened up the
spam settings because posters who left very long post, were being sent to the moderation queue or flagged as spam. As I feared that only opened the door to a flood of spam. The main reason was that the Captcha had stopped working on the forums. That has been fixed so that should solve it. Fingers crossed. 🙂
Pond5 Interview – Art Munson
Hey folks,
Recent Pond5 interview, with me, from the nice folks over there. Some of this stuff seems like a lifetime ago and another person. Who was that guy? Sometimes I don’t recognize him! I guess that’s how life is. If you get to live a long time there is a lot of morphing going on. Anyway, if you are interested, check it out.
Can you Make 6 Figures With Production Music?
Erik Jacobsen (Syncfree Music) and I were recently interviewed by A
lison Stolpa at Careers In Music about production music. Thought some of you might want to read it here.
‘TIS THE SEASON
by Robin Munson
It’s Crunch Time. We are a few weeks from Christmas and Chanukah. Once again, we must gather whatever remaining strength we have at the tail end of a challenging year and summon up the holiday spirit. We have shopping, cleaning, cooking, family gatherings. Some of us might have holiday gigs, musical or non. You might be tempted to drown your sorrows in Haagen-Dazs. (I might be!) So how do we take care of ourselves at a time like this? (more…)
EMBERTONE INTIMATE STRINGS – REVIEW
by PJG
In the last few years, Embertone has specialized in detailed, affordable virtual instruments: from the classic sound of the clarinet to the exoticism of the erhu and the insanity of the mouth trumpet – their products are always deeply sampled and beautiful scripted. And during all this time their solo strings have been Embertone’s flagship, starting with Friedlander Violin in 2013 and finishing with Leonid Bass early this year. Completing the series, Blakus Cello and Fischer Viola: it is always nice when libraries give their performers proper due. (more…)