Author Archives: Ian C. Anderson

Looping session turned remix?

By Ian C. Anderson | Published: March 9, 2010
Sooo I was in the process of figuring out how to live-loop the bits and pieces of Lunar Sunrise within Ableton Live tonight. I was too lazy to plug my bass and guitar in, so I pulled up some virtual instruments in Ableton and jammed out with them. Next thing I knew, I [...]
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Email Marketing with Mail Chimp

By Ian C. Anderson | Published: March 4, 2010
Mail Chimp is an online tool for email marketing and email list management. I recently created an account in order to manage email list for my “fans.” Why? Because many of my fans won’t actively read my blog or visit my website without a little nudge. But they all check their email. Sending [...]
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Pledge to me, I’ll pledge to Haiti

By Ian C. Anderson | Published: January 15, 2010
I’ve decided to pledge to the Haiti cause, specifically to the Doctors Without Borders cause. As many of you know, I’m currently accepting pledges, via kickstarter.com, to help with the costs of producing my first album. The amount that I’ll pledge to Doctors Without Borders will be 75% of the kickstarter pledges that I get over the [...]
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Day 0 of #ica2010album : Drum Sounds

By Ian C. Anderson | Published: December 8, 2009
Today (technically yesterday now..) I started the process of salvaging my (rather poorly) recorded drums from a few years ago into separate MIDI tracks. Reaper makes this process easier with a JS plugin called drumtrigger – it takes an audio signal as an input (such as a snare drum track), and outputs a MIDI [...]
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First album – tentative release date, details

By Ian C. Anderson | Published: December 1, 2009
I’m very happy to announce that I will be self-releasing my very first album in 2010. It will be an EP, 5 or 6 songs, and I’m planning on a release date in March 2010. I’m still figuring out the distribution method, but my current plan is: ~300 physical CDs will be replicated, packaged in cardboard [...]
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