Trending Music Technology

If you’ve been following me here on my blog, you’d remember that I’m a Full Sail University student.  My major is Entertainment Business.  This degree sets me up to work in several different professional entertainment fields like management, event planning, and artistry.  I choose to focus on the music side of things.  I would like to work in behind the scenes in management, event planning, and the creative side of songwriting.  All of these encompass my desire to help an artist develop to a budding star.

There are also some new trends in technology happening in the music industry today that I’d like to shed focus.  Some of these ways I’m just learning about myself.  The digital music era is upon us and to remain current we as entertainment graduates need to educate ourselves.

The first savvy technology trend most of us use now, which is being able to download music to our several devices.  But there’s this thing called icloud by Apple that allows you to link downloads together on your Apple devices.  This is probably what makes me love Apple.  Since I spend so much money on downloading music from itunes, I would really be upset if I couldn’t hear the same music between my iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro.  So giving customers convenience is really the drive for this product.

Speaking of the iPad, we have more and more apps that do everything you can think, even music production.  Owning the iPad for the last year, I have discovered various music production software apps that you can download like Logic, Garageband, and my latest find, impc.  The impc is a smaller version of the ‘motherboard’ MPC Studio.  Apps like this give people like me who may be technology challenged and easier way to make some incredible music.  It’s easy to use, portable and I make music right from my bedroom.  How convenient is that? 

Needless to say, there is so much more technology that we’ll keep discovering in this ever-changing business.  My advice is to try and stay current as much as possible by subscribing to the newsletters of reputable companies that sell these devices.  Good luck!