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 [...]

Studio to Go! is a CD of integrated music software that runs direct from a computer CD drive. The CD is designed to run on any Windows compatible PC and to configure itself to the system and sound hardware automatically.
The CD includes a Linux operating system and a large collection of music applications.

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 [...]

StartCom Linux has released a add-on CDROM, called StartCom MultiMedia Productivity, that adds music recording capabilities to Linux.
The software is meant to be installed in addition to the StartCom distribution, StartCom MultiMedia Edition. The additional CD comes with a autorun installer and a advanced set of audio and video manipulation programs.
The MultiMedia Productivity CD lets [...]

Tonality Systems/MRAC Publishing have announced Symbolic Composer 5.1 3D, for the Mac OSX. The upgrade implements powerful VRML2 Macros that let the composer fuse together music and architecture. VRML2 is the official language of the 3D Web known as Cyberspace, and the VRML2 definition is included in the MPEG4 Specification.
The VRML Macros provide full compatibility [...]

eMagic, a subsidiary of Apple, is one of the leaders in the area of computer music software. Their logic software is one of the leading applications for commercial music production, used by over a quarter of a million studios. As a division of Apple, their expertise in music production is being used to make the [...]