A Musitech Blog

March Roadmap/ Update

Hello everyone! I’ve been busy with my Senior Project for the last month, so that’s the backlog I’ll be uploading to here for the next few weeks. If you want to preview the posts, you can visit my official SRP page (ignore the awful photo lol).

Current Posting Schedule Plan:

Other misc. updates to the site that I want to implement/ have planned:

Other notes:

I’m fairly new to blogging, so I’m always looking to improve my content and this site. Thanks for reading!

- Saketh

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Teaching Improv

Hello everyone! I just wanted to share the process I use to help teach people (specifically fellow pianists) how to improvise, especially for group environments like Jam sessions. Feel free to leave a comment down below what your thoughts on my general process, or if you have any other cool tips or suggestions that you would recommend to people who are exploring this fun collaborative experience for the first time.

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BASIS Piano Repair and Tuning: Day 1

Hello everyone! Over the last six-ish years or so, I’ve been discovering my high school’s seemingly ever-expanding volume of musical instruments and resources. Among these, is our small school’s upright piano, currently located in the drama room (Room 115).

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February Roadmap/ Update

Hello everyone! Over the last month, I’ve been working on building a backlog so that I can have a semi-consistent posting schedule. Here is what I currently have planned for the month of February:

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VST Plugin Malware Capabilities: Why you, the Digital Musician, should care

Virtual Studio Technology plugins, more commonly referred to as “VSTs” are practically synonymous with the wider world of audio plug-ins at this point in history. Ubiquitous to hundreds of thousands of musicians, sound designers, and audio engineers across a variety of genres and industries, VSTs are an essential tool for modern audio production. But despite this, most musicians are not aware of the potential security risks that come with carelessly using them. In this article, I’ll go over the capabilities of VST malware, and why you, the musician, should care, and what you can do to protect yourself from attacks associated with the way this framework interacts with your computer.

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Plotting Spotify Listening Data

This post was the output of an applied Stats project I was assigned during my High School AP Statistics where we were tasked with finding some data in the wild and using software to extract insights from the raw numbers. In this post, I’ll go over the steps I took to extract my Spotify listening data and create meaningful visualizations from it in R.

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Welcome to "A Musitech Blog"!

Note: Site will be moving to musitechblog.github.io sometime in May. It’s already up there if you want to check it out.

This is a blog where I’ll be exploring cool music and tech (or combined: Musitech) stuff I come across. Feel free to reach out to me via any of the linked socials if you have any questions or comments!

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