February, 2006 archive

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 & [...]