I thought those of you who might be interested, I’ll post a video of the overview of what the program that we use.

And if you want to hear some of the actual sounds of the keys here is another video that you can scroll through. He shows a few of the different keys and effects:

Basically you can take a sound and then layer many sounds into that sound or have different sounds come out when you play in different octaves. For example this week I have a song where I have a bells part that plays along with the piano when I’m in one octave, but when I move down an octave I only have piano with underlying strings, but then in the big chorus I can flip a switch and then the strings and bells play along with a pulsing bass to really fill out the sound.

See? It’s cool.

But like Tim said–it’s just the tip of the iceberg. And you can really see that now. With all the sound options and layer and effects (reverb, rolling arpeggios, pulses etc.) you can create literally thousands of sounds. It’s exciting and a little overwhelming. But Tim is having a fun time learning all of these things. It combines things he enjoys: music and technology.

One more post tomorrow on this then I’ll be done. 😉