{"id":26100,"date":"2017-11-05T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=26100"},"modified":"2017-11-05T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T01:06:07","slug":"open-letter-kirk-hammett-need-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2017\/11\/05\/open-letter-kirk-hammett-need-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to Kirk Hammett\u2014you need Momentum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Kirk Hammett,<\/p>\n<p>We just read <a href=\"http:\/\/loudwire.com\/metallica-kirk-hammett-five-hundred-ideas-next-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Loudwire article<\/a> that you already have about five hundred ideas for the next Metallica album. We&#8217;re <em>SUPER<\/em> excited about that!<\/p>\n<p>We also know that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/loudwire.com\/metallica-kirk-hammett-admits-losing-phone-250-musical-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you lost your phone a few years ago<\/a>\u2014and along with it, 250 ideas. That must have sucked so friggin hard. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>This time, we would absolutely love to help you save and secure <em>all<\/em> of your music ideas. We can also help you get your ideas out of your phone and into your studio\u2014<em>whatever<\/em> studio you&#8217;re using, anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p>At Cakewalk (a Gibson Brand), we recently announced this new product called <a href=\"https:\/\/momentum.cakewalk.com\">Momentum<\/a>, which is a simple 4-track app that sits on your iPhone, your Android phone, or your Mac or Windows PC.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26104\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/momentum.cakewalk.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26104\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4740-169x300.png\" alt=\"Momentum iPhone App\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Momentum iPhone App<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What&#8217;s\u00a0<em>cool<\/em> about Momentum\u2014and what makes it a perfect platform for you\u2014is that it <em>automatically syncs all of your ideas to the cloud<\/em>, so that you can get back to them, anywhere, anytime, from any smartphone or computer.<\/p>\n<p>We even have a Momentum plug-in that sits inside Pro Tools, Logic, Live (or any Mac\/PC DAW), so that you can just drag-drop your ideas right into your DAW and continue working on them.<\/p>\n<p>You can also record audio <em>from your DAW back\u00a0into the plug-in. <\/em>These new recordings will\u00a0be automatically sync&#8217;d to the cloud as well, and will appear on any device you own.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26101\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26101\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KirkHammettGibson-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kirk Hammett Gibson Guitar\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirk Hammett, Gibson Guitar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Hammett, if you use Momentum to record your ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>you&#8217;ll never have to worry <\/strong>about losing your phone and your ideas<\/li>\n<li><strong>your studio engineer will love you<\/strong> for being able to just drag and drop your ideas into Pro Tools sessions<\/li>\n<li><strong>your fans will love you<\/strong> for getting to hear all of your amazing work!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For these reasons, and because we&#8217;re huge fans, Mr. Hammett, we would like to offer you a <strong>free lifetime plan for Momentum Pro.\u00a0<\/strong>Get a message to us and we&#8217;ll hook you up!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/momentum.cakewalk.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26105 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/momentum-logo-1024x500-1024x500.png\" alt=\"Momentum logo\" width=\"660\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for hearing us out. We invite you to check out Momentum for yourself\u2014download and get started for free here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/momentum.cakewalk.com\/download\">https:\/\/momentum.cakewalk.com\/download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Kirk Hammett, We just read this Loudwire article that you already have about five hundred ideas for the next Metallica album. We&#8217;re SUPER excited about that! We also know that\u00a0you lost your phone a few years ago\u2014and along with it, 250 ideas. That must have sucked so friggin hard. \ud83d\ude41 This time, we would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2017\/11\/05\/open-letter-kirk-hammett-need-momentum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open letter to Kirk Hammett\u2014you need Momentum!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}