The Compose music tablet is a design concept, by Ouyang Xi, He Binbin, Zeng Li & Li Bo, intended to provide a mobile composition solution.
The pen acts as a mic that you sing into. When docked into the digital paper tablet, your vocal harmonies are automatically transcribed from the recording in the pen into a [...]

The Who’s Pete Townshend, with the help of mathematician and composer Lawrence Ball and software engineer David Snowdon, has created a computer system called The Method which allows users to make unique pieces of music created by inputting personal information, sounds and a rhythm. Users will ’sit’ for the software in the same way a [...]

LvB’s X has introduced LvB’s X 2.0 - Virtual Music Composer, “music motive/phrase maker” software, an application that promises to compose music so you don’t have to.
The software works as a composer instead of a tool for composing. Users can create the basic part of a song by developing the motive which allows a key [...]

Synful CEO Eric Lindemann has announced availability of Synful Orchestra for MAC OSX in AU and VST formats.
Synful generated a buzz at January’s winter NAMM show with the introduction of the Windows version of its innovative “Reconstructive Phrase Modeling” (RPM) orchestral synthesizer. Now MAC users can also benefit from the expressivity and ease of use [...]

Steinberg has announced that its latest VSTi product, Virtual Bassist, is now shipping worldwide. Based on real performances by studio bass players, Virtual Bassist offers a range of bass phrases, grooves and styles and covers musical styles ranging through rock, pop, reggae, metal and hip hop to name but a few.
“Virtual Bassist is probably the [...]

Music Genesis is a new program that applies evolutionary theory to music.
The program is unusual because it applies evolutionary theory to the creation of music. Basically, MusiGenesis adds randomly-generated musical elements to a song and allows the user to play the role of natural selection, keeping the elements he likes and deleting the elements he [...]

2005 NAMM Show: Steinberg Media Technologies has announced the launch of Groove Agent 2, an update to its successful Groove Agent virtual drummer.
Replete with dozens of fresh, up-to-the-minute styles and a battery of quality new drum sounds, Groove Agent 2 offers the latest drum grooves and styles within the comfortable confines of modern DAW environments [...]

2005 NAMM Show: Steinberg Media Technologies has announced a new addition to its highly successful “virtual player” range of virtual musicians: Virtual Bassist.
“Featuring the talents of the programming team behind Virtual Guitarist and Groove Agent, Virtual Bassist provides all manner of bass guitar phrases, sounds and styles,” comments Helge Vogt, Steinberg’s Product Manager for VST [...]

Symbolic Sound has announced that Kyma X.1is now shipping. Kyma X.1 delivers support for using a Wacom pen and tablet as a 3 dimensional control surface, 3 new kinds of oscillators, modules for turning presets into a 3 dimensional parameter subspace, plus other enhancements and improvements to the Kyma X sound design software.
Using a Wacom [...]

TazMan Audio has released TheExtractor, PC VST plug-in that can extract audio information in real-time and convert it into MIDI messages, as well as allowing you to control up to 4 parameters at the same time from a single audio source.
TheExtractor makes it is possible to control a synthesizer/sampler or effect unit (as long as [...]