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Audio-Visual Art + DJ Culture Edited by Michael Faulkner/D-Fuse 2006-11-26 16:35:27 If you want to find your way into the VJing scene, you can either head for the next AV Social, or you can buy yourself a copy of "Audio
-Visual
Art + DJ Culture', edited by MichaelFaulkner
/D-Fuse…the world's #12 VJs according to DJ Magazine.
Not so much a book as an visual experience, its lavishly illustrated 191 [...] Read more:Edited
Zero G DJ Stakka Presents Firestorm 2006-11-08 04:54:32 Whilst Koncept "N' Funktion is up to the minute, Firestorm
is a little more retro in its outlook.
The work of veteran rave/D "n' B DJ/producer, Stakka, it consists of 950 24 bit samples, that cover Everything from D "n' B, through Jungle, to the pregenitor of both, rave.
Like K "N' C, it ships on [...] Read more:Presents
Zero G "Koncept and Funktion' 2006-11-08 04:33:37 Back in the day, when Zero G were just starting out, I used to review their products regularly in my column in Mixmag…which obviously explains how they got to be so successful…well, that and the fact that they have consistently delivered the goods, at the right price…and the fact that I used to review their [...]
Resolume 2.4 2006-10-23 05:55:34 Everyone's favourite VJing app, Resolume, is back with it's latest and greatest 2.4 upgrade. But don't be fooled by the fact that it's only a point upgrade, rather than a full one, as this new version sports both a complete rewrite and added functionality…and what's more, it's free to existing 2.x users!
If you're not familiar [...]
Cakewalk Rapture 2006-10-08 20:49:53 Rapture is the third in Cakewalk
's trilogy of soft synths (as opposed to their soft synth, trilogy) and builds on its forerunners Zeta and Dimension Pro, by combining the superior sounds of the former, with the superior programmability of the latter. Intended primarily for electronic musicians, it ships with over 500 presets aimed squarely at [...] Read more:Rapture
ASK Video SX ED Cubase Tutorial DVDs 2006-09-24 22:00:27 When I reviewed Cubase SX3, just over a year ago, I mentioned ASK Video's SX ED tutorial series, which comprises level 1, 2 & 3 DVDs, available individually, or as a set. At the time I had been sent just the level 2 disc, which I though was "excellent" (and that's a quote), but was [...] Read more:Tutorial
Edirol / Digital Stage Motion Dive .Tokyo Console Edition 2006-09-14 03:57:16 According to legend, back in 1998, Tomoyasu Hirano (now the CEO of DigitalStage
) had a VJing gig. At the time most Japanese VJs did their thing with video tapes, but since Hirano's repertoire was entirely computer generated, he, quite logically wanted to find a way to output direct from his computer, so he wrote [...] Read more:Motion
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Arturia Analog Factory 2006-08-25 15:51:16 A few years ago, French company, Arturia, set about emulating the classic Moog modular synthesizer in software. Their resultant "Moog Modular V' sounded so authentic that it earned the endorsement of no less a luminary than the late great Dr. Bob Moog himself.
Since then, they have released several more highly acclaimed soft emulations of classic [...] Read more:Analog
, Factory
IK Multimedia T-RackS 2006-08-11 02:37:09 So you've spent large on a professional 24/192 soundcard, you have enough plug-ins to bring a room full of computers to a standstill and your tunes are happening, but every time you listen to your mix there seems to be something missing…sound familiar? If so, then what you might be missing is mastering.
Known as something [...] Read more:Multimedia
Adobe Video Bundle & Creative Suite Production Studio Standard 2006-07-24 02:27:15 Adobe recently updated its video suite, with full new versions of…pretty much everything and having spent the past couple of months putting it through its paces, I'm lovin' it, lovin', lovin' it, lovin' it like this…
Currently it's available in 3 flavours. Below are the differences between the first two,
"Standard
' and "Premium':
The third flavour, "Video [...] Read more:Adobe
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Cakewalk Sonar 6 Producer Edition 2006-12-18 23:55:11 If you want to run an old school DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) package on your PC, you have a choice of three applications, Cubase, Pro Tools and Sonar
. Of these, Sonar is, relatively rapping, the new kid on the blog, but don't underestimate it…though it doesn't have quite the same pedigree as its two main [...] Read more:Cakewalk
, Producer
, Edition
Adobe Releases Photoshop CS3 Beta 2006-12-15 12:01:47 This year, Christmas is coming early, courtesy of Adobe
, who have decided to release a public beta version of Photoshop
3. According to the company, this is to "enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple's new Intel-based systems"
You can download the beta, which is available as a Universal Binary [...]
Ableton Live 6 2007-01-02 10:10:12 Everyone's favourite audio application is back with a brand new version and having spent some time putting it through its paces, I have to say, it rocks!
Often, when manufacturers release a new version of their software, it's with a brand new interface, which is necessary because the old one sucked…not that the new interface is [...] Read more:Ableton
Video Forum 2007 2007-02-10 05:01:25 Â
If you look in the Oxford English Dictionary, under ‘bloody shambles’, the definition you’ll probably find is “Video Forum
.”
Having spoken to the organisers beforehand, I arrived at its venue, Olympia 2, first thing Tuesday morning, expecting to pick up my press pass, walk into the event and get on with reviewing it…if only.
“You got tickets?” [...]
Well I Neve R 2007-03-22 03:41:53 It’s not every day you get to meet a recording industry legend, but on Monday, Rupert Neve, got to meet me!
R is Legendary in recording industry circles, where his name is synonymous with the absolute best in analogue mixing console design. Chances are at least some of your music collection will have been recorded and [...]
Story of Photography, Michael Langford, Focal Press 2007-02-28 22:54:18 Photography has been with us for longer than you might think. In 1800, or thereabouts, Thomas Wedgwood (of pottery fame) created the first photograms, by coating bits of leather with silver nitrate, putting leaves on top of them and exposing them to the sun. Unfortunately though, he lacked a way to permanently ‘fix’ his [...] Read more:Michael
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 - World Exclusive Preview! 2007-03-27 06:32:02 Those of you who read my blog will know that at the end of January, I spent half a day at an exclusive press event (and a further half day at a follow up event a couple of weeks ago). Since both events were under Non Disclosure Agreement, I was unable to say anything more [...] Read more:Adobe
, Suite
, World
, Exclusive
, Preview
, Adobe Creative Suite
Native Instruments Battery 3 2007-04-05 10:57:56 If you’re not familiar with Battery, it’s a dedicated drum sampler by NativeInstruments
, which makes editing samples and creating kits easier than making jokes about bad drummers.
Recently optimised for NI’s Kore Technology, this new release answers many (though not all) of the komplaints I made in my komprehensive review of battery 2 a [...] Read more:Native Instruments
Native Instruments Absynth 4 2007-04-13 17:38:28 Absynth is one of the best sound design tools out there. Like its brethren, ‘Battery’ (reviewed below) and ‘FM8′ (review coming soon), it has recently had a makeover.
If you’re not already familiar with this soft synth, then check out my Absynth 3 review. If, on the other hand, you already know the score, [...] Read more:Native
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Award For The Technofile? 2007-04-24 01:35:43 Probably not…but it has been nominated in eleven different categories of the Jewish and Israeli Blog Award
s 2007 (and my personal blog has been nominated in a further thirty three!?!?!?).
If you want to vote for your favourite technology blog…you’re out of luck…it hasn’t been nominated. If, on the other hand, you want to vote for [...]
The End of The War? 2007-04-25 16:42:31 It had to happen sooner or later and now it has…someone has released a dual format Blue Ray and HD DVD drive…and that someone is LG Electronics. I know this because last week I was at the launch of not one, but two dual format drives, by the major Korean manufacturer, at appropriately cutting edge [...]
More Awards For The Technofile? 2007-04-30 17:26:13 The Technofile has had been nominated a total of five times, in three separate subcategories of ‘Best Post’, in the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards
2007.
Round one of voting starts now and is open until 10pm EDT on Sunday 6th May. If you want to vote for The Technofile simply click the links below, [...]
Going Professional VJing, Tate Modern 2007-05-07 20:24:42 Last Friday, Tate Modern
, London’s international centre for modern and contemporary art, hosted a half day event entitled ‘Going
Professional VJing’. Featuring superstar VJs, ‘Eclectic Method‘, ‘VJ Anyone‘ and Chris Allen of ‘‘ The Light Surgeons, the three hour event sold out, attracting an audience that ran the gamut from the curious, to VJing software [...]
Contour Design Shuttle Pro V2.0 2008-02-08 17:01:12 Desktop audio and video editing is a great thing…using a mouse to navigate a timeline is not…enter Contour Design’s Shuttle
Pro, a mini control surface that’s pre-configured to work out of the box with many of today’s top A/V applications.
Teach Yourself Visually Adobe Photoshop CS3 2007-12-08 16:31:17 Photoshop may be the most powerful image manipulation application in the nation, but with its great power comes great learning curves…which certainly aren’t my favourite kind of curves…if you know what I mean…so something that enables you to get to grips with the uber app in days instead of weeks, is worth its weight in [...] Read more:Yourself
, Adobe
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No title 2007-11-18 14:35:20 In the UK, there’s no shortage of music industry trade shows, but until recently if you wanted to check out the latest DJing kit, you were faced with a choice between PLASA (the main focus of which is sound and lighting for concert tours and large installations, making it 95% irrelevant to the average DJ) [...]
Pioneer SVM-1000 2007-10-10 19:36:10 Back in 2004, Pioneer
released the groundbreaking ‘DVJ-X’, which allowed DJs and VJs to scratch, loop and mash up DVDs in almost exactly the same way they had previously done with CDs, using the company’s ‘CDJ’ decks.
Quickly taking pride of place in clubs the world over and on numerous technical riders, the DVJ-X1 and [...]
Albino 3 2007-09-26 14:14:03 It seems like there’s a million soft synths on the market. Most are pretty good, a few are excellent. Albino? It’s one in a million!
Sony PDW-EX1 2007-09-07 07:33:35 Yesterday, at a press conference at IBC in Amsterdam, Sony
formally announced the specifications and pricing of its new PDW-EX1 camcorder.
First previewed six months ago at NAB in Las Vegas, as the XDCAM EX, it has since become one of the most hotly anticipated and talked about video cameras of all time…and here’s why…in a [...]
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