December, 2006 archive

Moog Music has opened its factory doors and allowed the Do-It-Yourself cable network to document the making of the Minimoog Voyager and Etherwave Theremin. The first episode – Building the Moog Voyager – is airing nationally on the cable network show “Handmade Music.”
“Bob (Moog) was passionate about the quality of the instruments that he [...]

I/ONE Connects has introduced its Firewire Audio Snakes, which promise to save users hours of installation time and hundreds of dollars in wiring costs while giving them a flexible, state of the art, all-digital infrastructure. I/ONE Firewire Audio Snakes make it easy and fast to connect studios, stage to mixer, traveling shows; anywhere you need [...]

The Roomba family was out caroling:

This was a demo of RoombaMidi2, a Mac OS X program to turn your Roomba into a MIDI instrument.
via Make

Ueberschall, the sample meisters from germany, today announced the worldwide availability of Electro ID.
The German Underground influenced electro music artists the world over. Now Ueberschall present selected electro style construction kits produced by the acclaimed electro artist Asem Shama, producer of Techno ID/ Ghostline and Franko Zeiger.
The Electro ID DVD contains exclusive drum loops, patterns, [...]

Griffin Technology today introduced the Elevator desktop stand for portable computers. Elevator raises laptops off the desktop and helps users reclaim valuable desktop real estate.
Griffin has designed Elevator as a substantial realization of a simple design. Elevator uses a 1/2-inch-thick crossbar to hold two 1/4-inch-thick aluminum standards, positioning the laptop’s screen at an ideal height [...]

PreSonus has announced Sonar support for the FaderPort USB Automation and Transport Controller.
The FaderPort is a single-fader USB controller that can write single and group channel volume, pan and mute automation. The FaderPort is loaded with an ultra-high quality Alps fader found in professional control surfaces including DigiDesign’s D-Command.
The fader in the FaderPort utilizes a [...]

Puremagnetik has gone back to the golden age of string synthesis and recaptured the sounds of 4 legendary instruments. String Machines contains over 250MB of lush sounds recorded directly from the classic stringers of the 1970’s. But it doesn’t stop with strings. These analog legends had amazing organs, lush choirs, brass and pianos – all [...]

Skylife has announced SampleRobot Version 2.40, software that lets you “clone” keyboard instruments and turn them into software instruments automatically.
SampleRobot works as a copying machine for instruments, featuring advanced recording and auto-loop searching algorithms. A futuristic graphical user interface gives you fast, efficient, and logical access to all sampling parameters. SampleRobot is also equipped with [...]

Electronic Arts today announced the availability of two new games for the fifth generation iPod – EA Sudoku and Royal Solitaire. iPod owners can download the two popular games through the iTunes store and can be sent as a gift using the iTunes gifting feature.
EA Sudoku and Royal Solitaire join EA’s three other games which [...]

Native Instruments today released B4 II 2.0.3, an update for its popular software instrument. The new version adds Universal Binary support, allowing users of Intel-based Macintosh computers to fully utilize the creative potential of the leading virtual drawbar organ on their machines.
The 2.0.3 update for Windows and Mac is now available as a free download [...]