February, 2006 archive

WFMU’ s Beware of the Blog has posted an interesting article on Tangerine Dream, it’s history at the station, and some hard to find live MP3s:
The passage of time is a great quantifier in the arts, and music that may have seemed to be the exclusive province of geeky stoners in its original historical context [...]

Spectrasonics has announced support for its Stylus RMX – Realtime Groove Module on Apple Computer’s new Intel Macintosh platform. The new version of Stylus RMX supports all Mac OS X Universal Binary VST and Audio Unit hosts, including Logic Pro 7.2, Garageband 3, Ableton Live 5.2, and others.
Stylus RMX is a groove-based virtual instrument plug-in [...]

Apple has announced that one billion songs have been legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store since it was launched less than three years ago.
The billionth song Speed of Sound was purchased as part of Coldplay’s X&Y album by Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan. He will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation iPods [...]

Enriched Visions is a new science fiction book that is based on the music of ambient music pioneer Robert Rich (Enriched Visions). Matt Howarth has previously done work inspired by Pink Floyd, Steve Roach, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream.
Description:

Embark on a series of fantastic voyages, where you’ll encounter: the link between a massive brushfire and [...]

Algorithmix has released a Mac version of reNOVAtor, previously released for PC–based DAWs, for users of Pro Tools’ AudioSuite platform. The high resolution processor can remove unwanted disturbances without audibly affecting the original program, even if the impairment overlaps desired material.

The majority of audio material tainted by annoying acoustic events can now be cleaned up [...]

QuikQuak has released the RaySpace 2.1 VST plug-in, a 3-D acoustic simulator.
This reverb introduces a new engine that lets the characteristics of the room shape, height, positions and materials be adjusted in real-time. Combined with the 3D view and the parametric equaliser, the user is given the complete audio and visual feedback of room designs.
With [...]

Limited numbers of the iTab, a custom tablet PC based on the Mac iBook, are being made available by their manufacture through eBay auctions.
The iTab is built by taking Apple’s 12? iBook laptop, taking the screen off, applying a touchscreen, then flipping the screen around and fastening it on. The whole thing is finished off [...]

Electronica pioneer Kevin Saunderson has released an update on the future of the Fuse-In Detroit Electronic Music Festival:
Ladies and Gentleman; I know many of you want to know what’s going on with the festival for 2006. I can not tell you for sure, but I have been told that the City of Detroit is in [...]

Macintosh Universal Binary applications are ones that run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers. These are sometimes referred to as Mactel versions, because they run and the Macintosh Intel-based machines.
Mactel Music Applications:

Airfoil
AudioExpress
AudioLeak -  an Leq (Long-Term Equivalent Level) analyzer for audio files.
CastAway - Wooden Brain Concepts
Crystal Synth
Boom Recorder
eJamming Station -  Real-time Internet-based music [...]

Composer Barry Schrader is featured on the first interview of a new podcast series Alive and Composing, created by Innova Recordings under the direction of Philip Blackburn, right. Innova is one of the leading labels for new music by American composers.
The series premieres with an interview with Barry Schrader, a leading composer of electro-acoustic music [...]

Symbolic Sound has announced that it has developed a new technique for morphing, warping, and synthesizing sound in the Kyma sound design environment. The Tau and its accompanying graphic editor provide tools for creating natural sounding multi-way audio morphs, insane transmogrifications (is that BT talking?), and mysterious synthesized effects.
Symbolic has posted a page of audio [...]

DJ Vibe TV is a video podcast that features dj videos, performances, dj interviews and tutorials.
Recent episodes have included Roger Sanchez in Vancouver, DJ Junios Sanchez and The Crystal Method.
If you aren’t familiar with video podcasting, it’s a way of subscribing to video content via the web. Most video podcasts are free, and they can [...]

via Axehole: Fans of the JazzMutant Lemur Touch-Screen Control Surface will want to take a look at this video of multi-touch interaction experiments on a large-screen monitor.
The video comes from Jeff Han, a consultant at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences’ Department of Computer Science.
According to Han, ” My research interests have historically been real-time [...]

The Mayo Clinic warns that portable music devices put your hearing at risk.
“With the older devices, like the Walkman, if you turned them up all the way, they sounded very bad, so people didn’t do it. Now, they don’t sound bad at maximum volume, and that could pose a problem,” says Jodi Cook, Ph.D., director [...]

Kid Nepro is now offering a bundle package on their five CD- ROM collection for Native Instruments samplers. All sounds are compatible with Native Instruments Kontakt, Kompakt, Intakt and Battery Samplers. All five CD-ROMS, with over 7000 samples and over two gigs of sample data, are now available on one DVD for $250.
Content Descriptions:
Drum & [...]