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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
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
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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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