Posts Tagged ‘Garage’

XTT on Rock Band Network!

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

There is currently 4 XTT songs available on RBN!

Cookie Monster is now on Rock Band Network!

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Download and Rock out!

Rock out while playing guitar, bass, drums or vocals by yourself or play as a whole band!

XTT song “Black and Blue” for Frets on Fire

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Here is my eighth song I made to play with Frets on Fire, I am happy with the results, this time it only has Medium, Hard and Expert difficulties, I may add easy later but I am happy the way it is right now. Its a slow and heavy groove, has some complicated picking that might be challenging on the game, hope you enjoy it! Peace.

Download “Black and Blue” for Frets on Fire here.

New XTT Song “Devine”

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

This is a Reggae type song I recorded the music to a few weeks ago and my wife finally laid down the vocals, I am really happy with the way it came out. The guitar and bass is yours truly and the drums are the EZDrummer rock/pop kit sequenced by me, hope you enjoy the reggae sounds, the influences are Bob Marley, Sublime and The Police. Hope you enjoy it, peace!

Listen or Download “Devine” here

XTT song “Fighting Back the Bullies” for Frets on Fire

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

I am on a roll with my fifth song I fretted for Frets on Fire, this has the easy, medium and hard difficulties and it is a nice and heavy duty song to rock out to but don’t smash your guitar when your done unless you can afford a new one.

Feel free to download it and rock out to it, Enjoy! Peace.

Download “Fighting Back the Bullies” for Frets on Fire here.

XTT song “Dirty Rat” for Frets on Fire

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Here is my forth song I fretted for Frets on Fire, this has the easy, medium and hard difficulties and it is a short and fun song to rock out to, I also updated cookie monster as well with the separated tracks.  Anyway, feel free to download it and rock out to it, Enjoy! Peace.

Download “Dirty Rat” for Frets on Fire here.

XTT song “Come Along” for Frets on Fire

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Here is my third song I fretted for Frets on Fire, this is also another improvement from the last songs, I figured out how to separate the tracks so it mutes when you miss notes and I plan on updating cookie monster as well.  Anyway, feel free to download it and rock out to it, Enjoy! Peace.

Download “Come Along” for Frets on Fire here.

My first cover song ever

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

I made this song for fun, Its I get money by 50 Cent, I am not really all that happy with my vocals cause I think I suck at vocals but I been wanting to see what it would be like, so I made this is little heavy metal’d up version of it, So far got some good responses over at iCompositions.com

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Download – Renato gets money

XTT on iCompositions and BandMix

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

XTT has just added 2 more hosting sites to the list, I was perusing the apple message boards and asked if there was a place to showcase my tunes there and someone recommended iCompositions.com and it is actually pretty cool and geared towards mac users, I already got a couple of good reviews too.

While I was perusing  iCompositions.com there was a banner ad for another cool site called BandMix.com which is also for indy artists which I also thought is pretty cool. I been looking for some cool indy artist communities and I am glad I found them, I am going to keep looking too.

Below is a screen shot of my new page at iCompositions (click pic to see full size):

Bleow is a screen shot of the BandMix page:

Below are the three cool reviews for the Song “Black and Blue” from iCompositions:

The Ultimate Drum Software

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Not long ago my 20 year old drum machine broke, it will not power on. At first I was very upset about and I started shopping around for something to replace it because I felt I was on a creative streak of writing new songs and it turned out to be a blessing because I discovered EZ Drummer by Toontrack. I shopped around quite a bit and read many reviews and I found a cost effective solution which was the Korg Nanopad and it came with EZ Drummer Lite Software which is a plug in for recording software like garage band, logic, ableton Live and many others and within a couple of days (in my spare time) I had the hang of it and pumped out 5 songs in a fraction of the time it took with my drum machine not to mention all the pre made midi beats that it comes with make it that much easier too.

So at this point I highly recommend it to any musician and if your a drummer don’t get your panties caught in a bunch because you can make your drum kit electronic and have perfect quality sounds if you record with it.

If your not convinced just go to toontrack.com and watch the video’s and from there you will see the power of toontracks software and not to mention the support portal and forum has not let me down yet and actually impressed me.

I tried about 3 other softwares demo’s that compete but there is no comparison toontrack is on the top of the pile.

here is what the Drumkit from hell looks like:
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Korg Nanopad:
nanopad

Here is the Video: