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I had the pleasure of dropping into SAE New York and meeting up with Udo, the School’s Manager, who kindly gave me a tour of the NYC Music Production School, located on the 9th floor of the Herald Center, 1293 Broadway.

The area is unusually circular in design (in a good way) which gives the spaces a sense of fluidity, and the school’s equipment list which fills the spaces is impressive, (big shiny desks and gear everywhere). It was even better seeing students working in very small groups on musical projects, I even saw one studio with a 2 inch 24 track multi-track recorder doing the business, awesome, that old skool tape sound still alive!

Along with the tour Udo gave good conversation about what they get up to in the vibrant city of New York which I found really interesting to hear, it must be a rush to study in an area with such a buzz around you, both inside and outside.

New York (NYC) is a seriously vibrant place and the phrase “the city never sleeps” is without a doubt true, which I’ve experienced before.

Whilst I’m on the subject of NYC, I’d love to hear what you’ve found in town, including bands, clubs, venues etc, what have you seen?

This is really amusing me, the fact that virtual representations of hardware can not only be created in the form of plug-ins but now also in virtual worlds!

The latest items into the Audiocourses.com Second Life Complex include the Soundcraft GB8 24 channel mixer as seen below:

Soundcraft GB8 in SL OK so the board doesn’t do a great deal as of yet, it just sits there looking cute, though with the possibilities of scripting language we are looking to port this baby to be controllable.

I might also mention to the right of my virtual me you can see some racked compressors and on the far wall we are screening a movie preview.

I’m very excited about the possibilities of Second Life as an educational platform, the potential is enormous, not least in the ability of hightening the scale of the audiocourses.com virtual community.

Come and join us.