Kinscheck Productions

10/01/2024

My heart goes out to those suffereing in the south from Helene and praying for safety and quick recovery

09/13/2024

LA Friends and followers, I'll be coming out a week from today and available to hang - Sept 21 - 23.
If you are around and have some time, even if it's just a meet up for coffee, let me know.

09/06/2024

Bandcamp Friday, time to help out a starving artist, make some bank, like a cup of coffee....All proceeds to go directly to artiest
Spotify streams, i got 40,000 and got $4. that's 4 songs downloaded from Bandcamp - or you can pay more if you like.

Primarily an electronic music producer/composer Ralphykeys has multiple independent releases spanning decades. Ralphykeys has done extensive research on both keyboard-based and gestural-based controllers. He has been working on a musical project that utilizes a state of the art midi keyboard with th...

08/27/2024

https://sites.google.com/view/ataritosser/music-midi/c-lab-emagic

The program that really got me into Notation and then morphed into Logic, by Emagic in Berlin. Great company and great products. Apple bought them in early 2000s and upped their game in the audio realm but never really did much to the notation or midi side of things, other than to hide the Environment.

To this day, I'll use Logic's notation, even though i have dabbled and even taught Finale to students despite it never being something i used regularly. By Finale, i won't miss you.

If I am using a bonafide notation program it's going to be Sibelius. Maybe....

Track Series SoftTrack 16+ During the early 80s a young Dr Gerhard Lengeling, through his acquaintance with a certain Karl Steinberg, began programming music software applications. Along with Chris Adam, they approached a large music store in Hamburg, Germany, with the intention of setting up a

08/22/2024

https://youtu.be/kcvoMFxOLZE

Here's a quick teaser for a song that will be released within the next few weeks.

This is a performance from June 1st, Medford Porchfest

This is a video short of a soon-to-be released song "Sing to You" performed in memory of lead singer and chief melody and lyric writer Billy Benner. The song...

07/18/2024

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/01/24/macintosh-36th-anniversary/

40 years ago !!!
I was entering my 3rd semester at Berklee and got to enroll in the newly formed Music Synthesis major under the direction of David Mash of Mashine Music
We got to work with these first MacIntosh computers that we thought were just fine.

I'll post more on the hardware and software we used as well.
Of course Midi just came out as well

Jupiter 6 or 8, Juno-106
Kurzweil K250 and Midiboard 1.0
Oberheim Xpander
Yamaha TX816, 8 DX7s in a Rack
Some early reverb and drum machine i can't remember exactly. I think the drum machine was the Yamaha RX7.

MOTU Performer 1.0
Opcode Galaxy editing software

I got a great jump start into music production in 1987 when i graduated and started recording records and playing out.
Early tracks using midi, sequenced synth lines, programming cool and original synth sounds - the ones they all tell me today are cliche and dated....

On January 24, 1984, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh at Apple's annual shareholder's meeting in Cupertino,...

07/16/2024

A seminal event from my 20s. Back from school for my final summer in Chicago area. I had a pretty big party and we all sat around and watched this unfold. I also recorded on VHS tape, which by a long time ago completely faded into nothing.
You can still probably see a bit of the Zepplin performance that the band banned from ever showing on official material. Plant was either on coke or hungover or something, the worst i have ever heard him sing. The interesting part was having Phil Collins play drums for their short set.
Overall the show was great, Queen was the highlight, imo. Little did we know Freddie was starting to deal with Aids himself and would pass away not long after.
I watched the tape for years after. That was the age of all the different collabs like We Are The World, etc.
Great times.

06/21/2024

A little late in posting, from May something 1994, 30 years ago,

on stage in Paris - Le Palaise des Congress

Lot of fun playing some keys

05/29/2024

If you’re in Iceland beware of the Apple Sin.

It could be read Apples In, but there are no apples in it. Apple in Iceland is orange.

05/14/2024

Day 2, jet lag is a funny thing. the body craves normalcy and rhythm even after a supposed good Nights sleep it’s a bit uneasy

05/07/2024

And so it begins

My summer will be booked learning all the new features

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/BXTunnCuZxpQ45fq/?mibextid=WC7FNe

New versions of the mobile and desktop versions of the DAW are on the way

04/11/2024

I heard it was national sibilance day

Use of a DeEsser is highly recommended and some good EQ

02/12/2024

WoW, That Piano - Alicia Keys......

02/11/2024

Happy New Year🥳

02/02/2024

https://ralphykeys.bandcamp.com

Hey All, It's Bandcamp Friday again, meaning all proceeds from downloads go directly to the artist.

If you are a fan and wanted to help out, this is a good way to do so. Spotify and Apple Music don't really put anything, and while this is not a lot, it's more helpful than a spotify or apple music stream.

I've released two new songs to Bandcamp. One has been fully released but is still likely to get another mix.
The other song - Sing to You, is a pre-release slated for March and may sound different so give it shot.

Thanks and Enjoy

Primarily an electronic music producer/composer Ralphykeys has multiple independent releases spanning decades. Ralphykeys has done extensive research on both keyboard-based and gestural-based controllers. He has been working on a musical project that utilizes a state of the art midi keyboard with th...

01/29/2024

My views for coffee this morning

01/28/2024

Finally connecting with THE John Krivit at NAMM. Always great to connect and be involved in furthering education.