Ross Brown

I make music and websites. I am excellent at neither.


Archive of April 2008

Ghoslty Swim

This is an awesome free album put out by Ghostly International and Adult Swim. Lots of good electronic music on here, and it features a live mix by Tycho.

I think my favorite track is Light Powered by Daestro, but I’m only about one and a half listens in.

The whole album seems terribly squashed, but it’s probably appropriate for the style.


Iconfactory Sticker Icons

I love these icons so much. Check out both packs of application icons and the system pack. I was using the system pack for a while but dropped it in favor of these. They are a lot easier to look at a huge list of.

My dock is full of the stickers right now, and I really like the look of it. Unifies things a little bit.

I especially like the look of the System Preferences replacement

and the Mail icon

I think they’re my favorite application icons to date, but I wish people would widen their color palette a little bit. Docks too often have way too much blue.


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John Locke Syndrome Live Set

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Original song is here

This is an Ableton Live Pack (.alp) for use with Ableton Live. I created the set with Live 7 and I’m not sure if it’s backwards compatible. The set file should be, but I do make heavy use of some of the new features of 7:

  • Gate Sidechaining
  • Sampler1
  • Drum Rack (awesome!)
  • Analog (analog subtractive synth)
  • Compressor2

There are a few instances of Operator, too. I’m sure you can find viable alternatives3 to these.

I’m also using a couple (free) third-party plugins:

I’m having fun with my new copy of Live 7. I think it was definitely worth the student discounted price I paid for it, and I will surely use it for educational purposes only.

Creative Commons License
John Locke Syndrome by Ross Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.


1 I think this was introduced in Live 6, but I believe it got some tweaks for the new version.

2 This replaces Compressor I and Compressor II from earlier versions and is way better.

3 Might I point you to studiotoolz?


John Locke Syndrome”

This is a piece I’ve been working on for a while. I tried to experiment with things I don’t usually do, and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.

I’ve also uploaded the Live Set if anyone wants to play with it.