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Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pioneering Composer, Dies 2007-12-08 09:00:00 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pioneering Composer, Dies - The composer at Queens Hall, Edinburgh, recently. Photo: phnk, via Flickr.A massive pioneer in thought about composition and electronic music in particular, an inspiration to rock and pop figures as well as academics, and sometimes a lightning rod for controversy, Karlheinz Stockhausen died this week. (Thank you to everyone who wrote in to let us [...] More: continued here Other Review: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (Video Game)
Free Wavosaur: Wonderful Windows Audio Editor with VST 2007-12-07 09:00:00 Free Wavosaur: WonderfulWindowsAudioEditor
with VST - Wavosaur is a free audio editor for Windows that just hit version 1.0. It’s really good stuff: not only is it free, but the whole app is tiny (488kb), it’s designed to fit on a portable USB key, it hosts VSTs, and it’s an elegant waveform editor reminiscent of early versions of SoundForge. Even if [...] More: continued here Other Review: The Sabotage Cafe (Hardcover)
Nine Oddball Sound Design and Recording Techniques from VideoHelper 2007-12-05 09:00:00 Nine Oddball Sound
Design and Recording
Techniques from VideoHelper - VideoHelper, a sound production house, has a new library of sounds they call “narrative sound design,” a combination of “experimental” sound designs. You may have already heard some of the sounds from the two-disc collection, “Modules”, as the sounds have popped up in trailers for the likes of Spiderman 3, House of Wax, and Transformers. [...] More: continued here Other Review: On-Stage Stands Alto/Tenor Sax Stand with Flute/Clarinet Peg
AudioFinder 4.7 for Mac in Beta: Integrated Sample Editor 2007-12-04 09:00:00 AudioFinder 4.7 for Mac in Beta: IntegratedSampleEditor
- Speaking of sample management on the Mac, AudioFinder, the popular sample utility, is now in beta of its version 4.7. The new release integrates a basic waveform editor for quick adjustments to sound files. From the software’s forum:This is not a new audio editor to compete with Peak, DSP Quatro or Wave Edit. This is [...] More: continued here Other Review: Art of Saxophone Playing (Paperback)
Developer to Users: Boycott iLok and PACE 2007-12-04 09:00:00 Developer to Users: Boycott
iLok and PACE - The debate over copy protection in music software and anti-piracy tactics continues to heat up. Now Adam Schabtach of Audio Damage, the popular plug-in developer, has fired off a call for a boycott of products that use PACE and the iLok hardware dongle. And that means that Waves is again a target, in this case [...] More: continued here Other Review: Gifts (Audio CD) Read more:Developer
Leopard: Incompatibilities with JACK, Soundflower; Finder Audio Previews 2007-12-03 09:00:00 Leopard: Incompatibilities with JACK, Soundflower; FinderAudio
Previews - Generally, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been working pretty well for most users, though we continue to hear a number of complaints about compatibility with M-Audio hardware. There are some annoyances, though, including one major bit of bad news as far as routing audio between apps.In the “bad” category, Paul Davis, the creator of [...] More: continued here Other Review: Practice Books For The Flute: Omnibus Edition (Books 1-5) (Spiral-bound) Read more:Leopard
Interview: Beatrix Jar and the Fuzzy Sound Collage 2007-12-02 09:00:00 Interview: Beatrix Jar and the FuzzySoundCollage
- Beatrix Jar is Bianca Pettis (Beatrix) and Jacob Aaron Roske (JAR). The duo teaches workshops on Circuit Bending and performs live with an eclectic set of gear including an AM radio, bent Speak ‘n Spells, drum machines and samplers. I met up with them in Minneapolis last week to discuss their new album [...] More: continued here Other Review: The Man with the Horn (Audio CD)
Ableton Live 7 Arrives; What It Means in Just a Few Words 2007-11-30 09:00:00 Ableton Live 7 Arrives; What It Means
in Just a Few Words
- Ableton Live 7 was officially announced today. I’m here in an airport on a layover, but that gave me an idea: what does this mean, in plain English, without mentioning any specific features (with a couple of key exceptions), in a way you could explain to a friend in an elevator.The core sound engine is [...] More: continued here Other Review: Montreux '77 (Audio CD) Read more:Ableton
Game Day in Review: Loads of Ways to Play Music With Games 2007-11-29 09:00:00 Game Day in Review: Loads
of Ways to Play Music
With Games
- Don’t tell anyone, but many “interactive music games” haven’t progressed so far from Simon in terms of actual interactivity. Oh, well … lots of games are actually Pong / Missile Command / Donkey Kong / etc. in disguise, too. Photo: Debaird, who has more of these…The idea of Game Day this week was simple: a [...] More: continued here Other Review: Tell All Your Friends (Audio CD)
Interview: Classical Music Goes Digital, DRM-Free with Deutsche Grammophon 2007-11-29 09:00:00 Interview: Classical Music
Goes Digital
, DRM-Free with Deutsche
Grammophon - The original promise of digital music distribution was supposed to be greater variety, the availability of out-of-print music, communities serving specific interests that had been under-served by mass culture, high-quality audio, and lots of choice. Slowly, I think, that promise is finally being delivered. Readers of a music technology site may not think much about [...] More: continued here Other Review: The Sabotage Cafe (Hardcover)
Ableton Live 7 Here Any Day Now 2007-11-29 09:00:00 Ableton Live 7 Here Any Day Now - I expect I’ll be somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on my way to Australia when it happens, but now that Ableton has closed its beta list and sent out a release candidate, you can expect an official Ableton Live 7 release really soon now. (I can share that, as the forums and beta list said [...] More: continued here Other Review: Round'bout Now (Audio CD) Read more:Ableton
Digital Music, Universal, and Why Water is Thicker Than Coke 2007-11-29 09:00:00 Digital Music
, Universal
, and Why Water is Thicker Than Coke - Photo: Ende, for AdBusters.Universal CEO Doug Morris makes an easy target for the blogosphere. This is the old-school record industry executive who called iPod owners thieves and wanted broad legal enforcement against piracy — enforcement that, in the end, seems to pale in comparison to the revenue generated by actually offering online sales. So, now [...] More: continued here Other Review: Hide from the Sun (Audio CD) Read more:Digital
Game Day: Guitar Hero Smells Like Wii Spirit 2007-11-28 09:00:00 Game Day: Guitar
Hero Smells
Like Wii
Spirit - Guitar Hero
makes you feel too much like you’re in a Japanese video game arcade? (Heck, they have taiko drums and stuff.) Rather use it as a way of reinventing how you play the guitar — aside from, of course, spending thousands on a robot guitar from Gibson or experimenting with new tuning systems?Here’s yet [...] More: continued here Other Review: After Fajr (Audio CD)
Get Ur G33k 0n! Dorkbot Chicago this Wednesday; CDM in Perth, Brisbane 2007-11-28 09:00:00 Get Ur G33k 0n! Dorkbot Chicago
this Wednesday
; CDM in Perth
, Brisbane
- CDM World Tour: catch up with Mike and Liz in Chicago, and Peter and Jaymis in Perth and Brisbane (Australia)!Dorkbot ChicagoAny CDM-ers in the Chicagoland area are most warmly invited to this months Dorkbot at Deadtech, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave., on Wednesday at 8pm for food, drink, and brain-swelling information regarding micro-sampling and alternative musical [...] More: continued here Other Review: Gifts (Audio CD)
BanPiracy Responds; Waves Going it Alone in Software Crack Crackdown? 2007-11-27 07:06:00 BanPiracy Responds; WavesGoing
it Alone in Software
Crack Crackdown
? - BanPiracy.org is a independent organization pursuing “copyright enforcement” for pirated software, targeting studios with sting operations and lawsuits. Recently, I challenged them to demonstrate that they have other developers onboard aside from Waves Audio. That seems reasonable, given their website claims they have been contracted by “many of the biggest names in the industry” and [...] More: continued here Other Review: American Minor (Audio CD)
New Monome Kit Coming 11/30, 128 Due 12/14 2007-11-27 07:06:00 New Monome Kit Coming 11/30, 128 Due 12/14 - If you missed the chance to make a custom Monome kit the first time, you’ll get a second chance! From the Monome site: the 40h kit allows users to assemble their own 40h-compatible device. the kit includes the circuits and keypads, requiring the use to create an enclosure and top plate. we produced 100 units of [...] More: continued here Other Review: Death of a Bebop Wife (Paperback)
Game Day: Play Drums, MIDI, Guitar with a Wii Controller, Free 2007-11-27 07:06:00 Game Day: Play Drums
, MIDI, Guitar
with a Wii
Controller, Free - Bless Nintendo for making the Wii controller: inexpensive, lots of internal sensor data (motion sensing, tilt sensing, buttons), elegant design, and standard Bluetooth support allowing it to be used with Mac, Windows, and Linux. Now there’s free and open source software for making the most of your Wiimote as a musical instrument. First up: Wiinstrument, a [...] More: continued here Other Review: The Sabotage Cafe (Hardcover)
Game Day: Why Rock Band Demonstrates Musicians Need Friends 2007-11-27 07:06:00 Game Day: Why Rock Band Demonstrates Musicians Need Friends
- There’s been various speculation about whether the advent of the video game Rock Band will inspire real-world musicians. It certainly isn’t just a Simon-style button masher. Queue up Rush, crank up the difficulty level, grab real drum sticks, and you’d better actually have a sense of timing. But maybe the real message of Rock Band’s success [...] More: continued here Other Review: Junction 18-Granite street knife fight (Music Download)
Cakewalk Brings Back the E-MU Proteus, in Plug-in Form (Mac/Windows) 2007-11-27 07:06:00 Cakewalk Brings Back the E-MU Proteus, in Plug-in Form (Mac/Windows
) - Dahnielson of Sweden snapped this shot of the back of a Proteus 2000, which was a 1999 hardware solution to getting the original Proteus sounds. But if you’ve ever wished you could load those sounds onto your trusty MacBook, pay attention… Sound modules of yesteryear rarely earn much love today: now that we’re spoiled for choice [...] More: continued here Other Review: The Man with the Horn (Audio CD) Read more:Cakewalk
What OS Do You Use to Make Music? 2007-11-27 07:06:00 What OS Do You Use to Make Music
? - Photo via jeanmarc77 I consider myself operating system atheistic: I refuse to believe in an operating system unless solid, empirical data is presented proving it exists works. Okay, actually … I spend a considerable amount of time doing production on both Mac and Windows, and even some time working with Linux (not to mention administering Linux [...] More: continued here Other Review: Metagami (Audio CD)
Mandala 2.0 Shipping: Drum Controller Goes USB for $349 2007-11-27 07:06:00 Mandala 2.0 Shipping
: Drum Controller Goes USB for $349 - We took a look at the Mandala drum controller last year: it’s a multi-zone drum controller you can play with sticks. Different zones give the device extra expression, packed into a compact area. And the manufacturers know something about controller design, having worked on the D-Beam IR controller for Roland (among other things). Check comments [...] More: continued here Other Review: Guide to Repairing Woodwinds (Spiral-bound)
Game Day: Make Your Game Boy Color a MIDI Synthesizer with Pushpin 2007-11-27 07:06:00 Game Day: Make Your Game BoyColor
a MIDI Synthesizer with Pushpin - Hardware MIDI control, full-blown synthesizer, all from a Game Boy Color. Christmas lights not included. Want that vintage-y goodness of a real Game Boy’s sound, but want new-fangled color and MIDI? Pushpin is for you. Brian Whitman writes: Hi, thought you’d like to know that Noah and I have finally released Pushpin, which turns your Game Boy [...] More: continued here Other Review: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (Video Game)
Free TuneCore Album on iTunes, Music Video Sales in Beta 2007-11-27 07:06:00 Free TuneCore Album
on iTunes
, Music
Video Sales
in Beta - While on the subject of free music listening, in case you haven’t seen this yet, TuneCore has a free mix album up on iTunes — 33 tracks for free, from everybody from Public Enemy (whoo!) to the awesomely-named Harry and the Potters: TuneCore Free Album The only bad news: DRM-equipped tracks, so get ready for the burn [...] More: continued here Other Review: Metagami (Audio CD)
Game Day: Use Rock Band Drums as MIDI Controller - Windows, Yes, Mac, Soon? 2007-11-27 07:06:00 Game Day: Use Rock Band Drums
as MIDI Controller - Windows
, Yes, Mac, Soon? - This Megatron robot is not actually playing these drums. But knowing the hacker community on the Web, he may be soon. Photo: punkjr. That didn’t take long. Just days after the games’ release, someone is already using controllers for the Harmonix game Rock Band with their computer software. Cyrus Thomas-Walker writes us: Looks like someone thought outside [...] More: continued here Other Review: Death of a Bebop Wife (Paperback)
Tenori-On: Hands-on, Chat with Yamahaâ s Yu Nishibori, on CNET 2007-12-19 09:00:00 Tenori-On: Hands
-on, Chat with Yamaha
âs Yu Nishibori, on CNET - Donald Bell, aka electronic musician Chachi Jones, nabs what I believe is the first hands-on time with the LED-and-button-laden Tenori-On digital instrument on American shores. Yamaha’s Yu Nishibori stopped by the music tech boutique Robotspeak in San Francisco for a chat; I got to play Robotspeak in January and it’s a brilliant place. Donald recorded [...] More: continued here Other Review: After Fajr (Audio CD)
Mix Online To Offer Monthly Game Audio Digital Magazine 2007-12-19 09:00:00 Mix Online To OfferMonthly
Game AudioDigitalMagazine
- Speaking of gaming, here’s more news that the fledgling game audio and music area is getting more attention — something that we at CDM see as very good news. (See our sometimes-obsessive gaming stories.) CDM’s resident game composer and sound designer checks in …In an e-mail he sent to me yesterday, Peter pointed out that [...] More: continued here Other Review: The Cream of the Cake (Audio CD)
Web: Want to Break Into Games? Nextcat Adds Listings 2007-12-19 09:00:00 Web: Want to Break
Into Games
? Nextcat Adds Listings - Amidst the social networking crap, there are gems offering real resources. Nextcat lies somewhere between LinkedIn and MySpace, offering places to connect with professionals in a range of fields. The site was founded by two Berklee College of Music alums, an alma mater for a number of our readers. I’m guessing "modeling" applies to [...] More: continued here Other Review: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle (Video Game)
Mailbag: A Christmas Question - Too Much Techno? 2007-12-19 09:00:00 Mailbag: A ChristmasQuestion
- Too Much Techno
? - CDM receives all sorts of fascinating emails, and it’s about time — especially in the spirit of holiday giving — that we share them. Cheryl writes us:interested in your dj11.My son who has the gifted ear for music has it on his x-mas list.Wondering if this is too much tecno for a precussor to a [...] More: continued here Other Review: Hide from the Sun (Audio CD)
Elsewhere: Throw Away Your Drums, Plus a Hands-On with eSession 2007-12-19 09:00:00 Elsewhere: Throw
Away Your Drums
, Plus a Hands
-On with eSession - David Battino sends along this image. What’s wrong with this photo?Yeah, I guess once you have a Roland Handsonic and M-Audio Trigger Finger you don’t really need drums, huh? Your neighbors / roommate / significant other / Mom are going to clip that sentence out and paste it to your studio door.I’d be remiss [...] More: continued here Other Review: Round'bout Now (Audio CD) Read more:Elsewhere
Wormhole2: Tool Routes Audio Over Networks, Now Open Source 2007-12-18 09:00:00 Wormhole2: Tool Routes Audio
Over Networks, Now Open Source
- Wormhole2 is a powerful, cross-platform (Windows + Mac) VST plug-in capable of transmitting audio between computers over networks. It allows effects chain routing between networked computers, boasts low-latency performance on LANs, and even works over WiFi or Firewire. But Wormhole2’s niche audience kept it from catching on more widely, and we hadn’t heard much [...] More: continued here Other Review: Baba de Calango (Audio CD)
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