Jonathan Hughes

Mercury Frost?

Thanks for the input! There doesn't appear to be any big advantage of Cubase (or any DAW at this point for that matter). I'll have to download the demo and play around. I have no intention ton of switching from Logic, but sometimes it's fun and inspiring to play around with something new.

I've been happily using Logic for 10 years, and I know it very well; but the sale on crossgrading to Cubase makes it very tempting to try out. I know I could download the demo and try it out myself, but I was curious if anyone knows of any major advantages of Cubase (no comparison that I've found has been current and/or from a quality source).

Thanks! That price is RIDICULOUS!

I'm curious about this "Notation Pro" app. I've googled and haven't found anything. Is that its actual name?

Musescore Pro is $49 per year: https://musescore.org/en/node/268268

Not at all. The chord symbols and slash notation in Dorico work great. The number of options it gives you for chord symbols is amazing, and you can also create your own. It's really well thought out. This video gives a rundown of many of the options for chord symbols: They can be set up as defaults once you have things the way you like. I found the program a little confusing at first (in particular, the way notes are input), but it's really enjoyable to use, and the output looks fantastic (I've never seen anyone else's charts that look as nice as mine (I think it's all been stuff from Finale or MuseScore). I tried Sibelius First (meh), some low end version of Finale (BLECH), and Notion (generally really nice, especially for the price, but it would do weird things that I couldn't figure out fairly regularly). I was able to take advantage of the competitive upgrade with Dorico, and wow, what a difference! I find it pretty logically laid out, and after a a few hours of use, reasonably easy to use. Occasionally I come across something I can't figure out, but a post to the official forum or the facebook group usually gets me an answer very quickly. Probably its biggest downside is that it offers SO MANY options for how you want particular things treated visually that it can take a while to remember where things are and a while to scroll through all the options to find what you want. It may be overkill for lead sheets, but that's basically what I use it for. The newish Dorico Elements offers probably all the features anyone would need for lead sheets at a much lower price.

Great shots! Just curious what lens were you using?

"It loses some points to the Little Phatty in looks, not having that Moog sound and in having an externl wallwart IMO" Yeah, my stratocaster lost a ton of points for not having that saxophone sound. a TON.

My friends do a collection of mainly original (and very non-religious) holiday music every year. We do all different styles, and there's always lots of analog synthesizers featured (as well as other instruments). Check out anything with Joe Rozler on piano -- he's fantastic. We've got about 40 songs to download for free: www.robotholiday.com

Every year for the past several years, my friends and I have recorded a record of mainly original holiday music. It's all available for free download on my website: www.jonathanhughes.com/holiday.html Including this year's stuff, there are over 30 songs available. They're all performed by some excellent musicians, many are really funny, many feature singing robots, and there's a LOT of synthesizer. There are all sorts of styles covered, so there's probably something there for just about anyone; and best of all, it's almost all original (we do do a few choice covers) and unlike anything you'll hear at the mall. So if you're sick of the songs that are played to death, come on over and start downloading. Jonathan

Here's some holiday music (all original stuff, and nothing close to normal holiday music, either) http://www.jonathanhughes.com/holiday2007.html

I've got a bunch of sound clips from my newly-released CD "fluidities" here: fluidities It's a double CD featuring 11 tracks by me (Jonathan Hughes) and 11 tracks by ambient artists like Tetsu Inoue, Saul Stokes, Ian Boddy, Michael Bentley, and others. All the tracks are 6 minutes long and generally in A minor, so you can play the CDs simultaneously (in any order) to create hybrid tracks (the tracks are generally rhythmless, so there's rarely a probalem with things interfering with each other). There are 121 possible combinations which yield about 12 hours oh music. If you check out the sound clips, you should be able to open different oones in different windows and have them play simultaneously. All the tracks work fine on their own, but in combination with other tracks they can be even more interesting. Jonathan

"Jonathan Hughes/Subspace (Lumi) - Beautiful, spacious ambient sequences. I liked this stuff a lot. Was that a real English horn? If it's a sample, I want to know where I can buy it. " Dan, Thanks for the compliments. That sound is out of the the Roland JV series orchestral expansion board. it's got some real nice english Horns and Oboes on it. "You should contact the producers of the Echoes radio program. Your music would fit right in with their format." They already play my stuff! Wooowooo!! jonathan

My stuff can be found at www.mp3.com/subspace It's mainly electronic. there's a lot of ambient (some Eno-like stuff), some downtempo, and some slightly dancier stuff (although it's all fairly slow). Jonathan