Category Archives: Music Business

My First NAMM – January 1997

Tweet My first NAMM experience was in the Winter of 1997 and I got to see Seer Reality, and a lot of other great new software products on the floor.  1997 was a great year for computer software:  Personal Computer Music … Continue reading

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Music Software in the Connected Age

Tweet It seems like most of the obvious problems in Music software have been solved, so you might think “audio is done” and there is no room to grow a business in music software today.  But I believe there is … Continue reading

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Why I Started nuVibrations LLC

Tweet Back in the mid-1990’s I was part of a game software startup called “SolidState”.  We were lucky enough to land a deal with NEC Japan to produce a game called “Dark Fiber”, a cyber-punk adventure based on a souped-up … Continue reading

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Thinking About Kickstarter?

Tweet If you have been engaged in social media recently you have probably been hearing about a website called Kickstarter where people pitch ideas and get funding from other people online.  Maybe you have even got a project in mind … Continue reading

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How to Produce a Great Album

Tweet One of the strategies for achieving excellence I learned at the 2010 IMMMS was “Aim Low,  Get High”.  Great things are built in small steps that incrementally make the result great.    The key to success is having the tenacity … Continue reading

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How much music production will be done on the iPad?

Tweet As a developer of computer music technology, I have a keen interest in identifying the greatest opportunities in the future of computer music.  Will everyone move to the iPad?  Or maybe the iPad will be a passing fancy?  I … Continue reading

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What I learned at the 2010 IMMMS (part 3: Software)

Tweet One of the big reasons I attended the 2010 IMMMS was to find out how people were making music with computers nowadays.  When I first got into computer music, there was MIDI and basic audio editing.  Software Synthesizers did … Continue reading

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What I learned at the 2010 IMMMS (Part 2: Marketing Your Band)

Tweet If you want to make money as a musician today the place to do it is with an independent label, not a major label.  The big downside is that with an indy label you must shoulder more of the … Continue reading

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What I learned at the 2010 IMMMS (Part 1: The Major Record Companies)

Tweet Last September I attended the 2010 Industry Meltdown Midwest Music Summit, held in Milwaukee Wisconsin. It was a great chance to learn what musicians are facing in the music industry today. Things have certainly changed since the 1990’s when … Continue reading

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