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Episode 14: Kevin Hearn, Barenaked Ladies

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Kevin Hearn is an integral part of Barenaked Ladies, but as you’ll hear in this interview, his other projects are just as amazing and Kevin provides some great insights on every one of them. If you’re a Lou Reed fan, or a Lawn Darts fan, you may enjoy this episode quite a bit.

Please note this episode was recorded prior to the deaths of Dave Greenfield and Florian Schneider, hence the mentions of The Stranglers and Kraftwerk only in passing.

Links to content mentioned during the show:

Orchestral Flaming Lips

Look People – Live 1993

Corky and the Juice Pigs

The Rheostatics

Robert Forster – and a second song because he’s worth it

Lou Reed (with Kevin) live in 2009

Kevin Hearn – The Silent Collapse

The Cousins

The Yamaha AvantGrand N1 Piano

Desert Island Discs: The Velvet Underground & Nico, Kaya – Bob Marley and The Wailers, A Meeting By The River – Ry Cooder and V.M. Bhatt, Human’s Lib – Howard Jones. Greatest Hits – Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark.

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Episode 11: Mark Baron, Gloria Gaynor and The Duprees

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Episode 11 features Mark Baron, musical director (and keyboard player) for Gloria Gaynor and also with The Duprees. Mark’s passion for what he does shines through in this interview and he provides some great insights into working across different genres and eras of music as both a keyboard player and musical director.

Links to content mentioned during the show:

Gloria Gaynor with the Metropole Orchestra

The East Coast Hall of Fame

Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge

Radial Key Largo

Kenny Vance and The Planotones

Desert Island Discs: Pictures at an Exhibition – Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Tarkus – Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin, The Grand Illusion – Styx

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MainStage 3.4.3 – What’s New

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MainStage has had an update and for those wondering, here’s what’s new:

Stability/Reliability

  • MainStage no longer hangs after adding a Preset Name mapping to a channel strip after several patches have been created in the Concert.

Performance

  • MainStage no longer exhibits stuck MIDI notes and then loses connection to the MIDI interface.
  • The Playback plug-in no longer unexpectedly jumps back to the beginning of the song in certain cases where playing MIDI in to MainStage causes a system overload.
  • There are no longer unexpected System Overloads immediately after loading a Concert or a patch.
  • MainStage no longer hangs when opening a Concert that contains multiple duplicated patches.
  • Performance is improved while switching between patches in Concerts that use a large number of Audio Unit plug-ins.

Plug-ins

  • The Tab key indents text by two spaces as expected when editing in the Scripter plug-in.

General

  • Edited text in inspectors is now reliably updated immediately.
  • Tempo-based Audio Unit plug-ins now maintain sync when MainStage is synced to MIDI Clock.
  • The New Track sheet now shows all available buses for multi-output instruments.
  • Concerts created in MainStage 3.1 or older now open as expected.
  • Duplicating an alias of a patch no longer causes unexpected sound output.
  • The Metronome Division setting is now retained when opening a saved Concert.