http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:48:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For fun I thought I'd give a little glimpse of something I'm working on. I'm kind of tired of all the electronic drum stuff i've been using lately and wanted to design my own. Here is a little glimpse at the prototype for the trigger pad. This ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2008/09/20/new-project/ Seriously?  Had I known this video was meant for such greatness I might have at least brought a better camera... 1. Gizmodo! - Never would have imagined. I mean, really? I'm speechless. Favorite comment: "first video is a 1:04 of my life that i will never get back." - yungjerry703 2. ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2008/08/12/top-five-incoming-links-mostly-related-to-previous-post/ Built in May by myself and my padre - Don Bwack - for the group Family Force 5 - a seven foot square MPC style midi controller. Weighs in at 750 lbs including intel mac, 22" screen, 10 knobs, 8 momentary switches, 2 mod/pitch wheels, and 16 led backlit ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2008/07/30/custom-large-format-mpc/ I found this photo today on my laptop.  Wow.  I used to like Carter Beauford.  A bunch.  Can you tell?  I still have a heavy dose of respect for him, don't get me wrong.  I've just moved on.  No hard feelings, just moved on... Photo taken - Summer of 2001 Other ways ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2008/07/10/old-setups-part-one/ I've recently made a major switch in my use of loops on stage. I'm now using ableton live as a software sampler instead of the sampler built in to the roland spd-s sampling pad. I still use the spd-s but only for triggering the loops in ableton. I'm calling ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2007/06/19/a-work-in-progress/ I got a chance to see this group at Yoshi's in Oakland a couple nights ago. A friend of mine currently getting his doctorate in math at stanford (fun!) is a big fan and has seen them like six times. He actually went back the night after we ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2007/05/14/the-bad-plus/ The whole band got together at the barn today to listen through the rough mixes of all the songs. basically this is a last chance to make any minor changes to the songs and see if we need to track anything else in these last few days before shane ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2007/04/11/listening/ so my tracking experience might be over. the percussion stuff (tambo, bells) is usually my last chance. joy! http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2007/04/11/tambourine/ This is pitiful. You'd think it would be easy to write a blog a day but... oh well. I apologize. Drums are finished. Amazing. To be precise, drums, guitars, bass, some acoustic guitar and violins, and a good bit of programming is finished, and we're only ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2007/03/28/im-late/ I bought a rogers holiday (i think its a holiday but i'm no expert) 20x14 bass drum a few years ago. its pretty, and i love the sound of old rogers. we had a rogers kit in a jazz program i was involved with in college and i ... http://www.davidcrowderband.com/band/bwack/2007/03/23/more-drums/