I’m slowly getting the hang of Reason, the synth/mix/electronic-music application from Propellerhead Software. This is a very, very nice piece of work, light years beyond the basic synths I played with occasionally back in high school. I’ve coupled this with an Edirol PCR-30 MIDI keyboard controller, which is essentially a dinky little half-keyboard slapped onto a MIDI in/out box. The good news from yesterday’s late-night geekout session is that I’ve managed to get the PCR-30 to talk to Reason (finally!), but the first piece of bad news is that when I get the PCR-30 online, for some reason Reason’s drum kit poops out. The second piece of bad news is that I can’t get my old Casio CT-700 to show up in Mac OS X’s MIDI Setup app. This is okay, I suppose, since that keyboard’s over a decade old and a Google search for “Casio CT-700” turns up very, very little useful information, but still… Dang. This was the first time I’d gotten the chance to hook the CT-700 up to a computer (the PCR-30 doesn’t require a SCSI or PCI MIDI card, only a USB connection), and I was hoping for something better. Maybe with a little more tinkering.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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