Its nice to buy music software. Its good for karma and sometimes gets you invites to seminars and workshops and stuff. I’m a registered user of both Reason and Ableton Live for quite a few years now and got an invitation for the MI:7 Music Event yesterday in Rotterdam, where I watched a few presentations: Steinberg on Mastering (interesting), SSL with their new Duende DSP (salespitch) and Reason 4 - new features ( messy presentation).

It was all merry but what really made the day for me was a presentation by Duotune, a producer-duo from Amsterdam. Its so nice to see people talk about stuff they really love - they ran down the new features in Ableton Live 7 but also showed some of their own tricks and hacks in production / engineering. I haven’t had the time yet to properly listen to their music but you can grab some of their stuff from Beatport.com - just search for Duotone.

Bo!