Over at CDM, Peter Kirn has a rundown of the status of music drivers for Windows Vista & Leopard. Leopard music making has had a few hiccups, but it really doesn’t look good for Vista music making: Digidesign + Vista Digidesign Windows OS Requirements On the Digidesign side, the good news is Pro Tools 7.4… Read More Is Windows Vista A Dying Platform For Music?
The iPhone seems to becoming the new “because it was there” controller for Ableton Live.
Apple today updated iMac line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac. The iMac now includes faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models. The 24-inch iMac… Read More Apple Announces iMac Updates
The Psychosynth project aims to create an interactive modular soft-synth inspired by the ideas of the Reactable. Here’s how the Psychosynth creators describe their virtual instrument: Our main goal is to create a free software alternative to allow newbies, developers and professionals explore new ways of making music. It is also important to build a… Read More Psychosynth – Free Soft Synth Inspired By Reactable
ThinkGeek has a cool customizable keyboard that looks like it would be great for rigging up a personalized music controller. The Ergodex DX1 Input System was built with gamers in mind – it looks like it could be great music, too. I’d be interested in trying this out, but there’s no mention of Mac support.… Read More Cool Customizable Keyboard Controller
Rain Recording has introduced a new Windows digital audio workstation, Solstice Spider Edition. Rain’s new audio + gaming workstation includes an AMD Phenom 9000 Series quad-core processor, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series GPU, and the AMD 7-Series chipset. “Rain has seen the convergence of our audio workstations for the purpose of not only music… Read More Rain Recording Intros New Audio Workstation
Andrew Fentem is a researched working on new interfaces for computer-human interaction. Many of these have potential in the area of music. His interactive flooring system design was developed in collaboration with Peracolor for The Experimental House of Tomorrow. He’s done a variety of work on electronic music instuments, especially in collaboration with Novation, including… Read More New Ideas In Computer User Interfaces
Apple today updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple’s Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook… Read More Apple Updates MacBook and MacBook Pro Lines
Bighead Electronics is selling a limited edition pre-modded C64, the Bent64 (eBay). The system comes completely loaded Paul Slocum’s Cynthcart, a custom program which helps the heavily modded Commodore produce a wild cacophony of retro noise as you press keys on the keyboard. It’s still fully functional as a standard C64, too, with the flip… Read More Bent64 –
Vision Systems Design, an engineering tech journal, has an interesting discussion on the technology behind the Reactable synthesizer interface. The Reactable, developed by researchers at the Pompeu Fabra University, is a tangible interface for manipulating synth sounds built from an off-the-shelf camera, computer projector, PC, and a custom-built light-table. The Reactable hardware is based on… Read More Secrets Of The Reactable’s Pattern Recognition
