CYBERMIDI MUSIC and MIDI Blog

Allegro Multimedia, a leading provider of educational software has chosen CYBERMIDI to create a jingle for Piano Wizard - the incredible video game that can teach anyone how to play piano fast.

You can hear the song at http://www.cybermidi.com/pianowizard or watch this youTube video below.

WorkshopLive Launches Online Learning System With 600 Internet-based Guitar and Keyboard Lessons

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By Seth Lutnick

After I had blown quite a few thousand dollars in a recording studio, a sound engineer friend made a cool suggestion. "Why don't you buy an ADAT, and do some tracking at home?" So I purchased that venerable 8 track digital tape recorder and saved oodles of time and money putting all my synth tracks on tape. That was my start in home recording, and oh, the fun I've had since!


What are the basic pieces of equipment and software one needs to record at home?

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by Jean Welles

"You can use my daughter's guitar. She tried to learn how to play a few years ago, but quit because her fingers hurt too much."

Saroun had invited me to join them for a Barbeque at her home, after church. There were requests for me to lead them in some worship songs, but I didn't have a guitar with me.

How many people have given up learning the guitar, like my friend's teenage daughter, just because it 'hurt too much?' If you, or someone you know is learning to play and feeling finger soreness... after reading this article, you will know 10 solutions for helping the soreness disappear.

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Gigging With Gash

Bill Bernico writes a regular column here at CyberMIDI called "Practical MIDI", and suggested I write this article. It makes sense, because you can't get much more practical than "The Quimbys", my MIDI-based, one-man classic rock act that has been entertaining San Diego, California for over three years.

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You learned to play on an acoustic piano and have always practiced or performed on one, so why would you choose to buy a digital like the Yamaha CP33 or the Yamaha CP300? There are a number of reasons for even diehard acoustic fans to consider a digital piano.

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