Hand Drum iPhone App

Avacata’s OddTunes: Hang (App Store link) is a $.99 virtual Hang drum for the iPhone. If you’re not familiar with the Hang drum, it’s steel percussion instrument, similar in sound to a steel drum, that is typically played using the hands and fingers while it rests in the musician’s lap. It was developed in Switzerland… Read More Hand Drum iPhone App

Propellerheads Rumors

Future Music magazine says that Propellerhead Software, makers of Reason, is going to introduce a new digital audio workstation product May 9th: According to our sources in Sweden, Propellerheads will use their upcoming Producers Conference (see locations below) on May 9th to announce a new Digital Audio Workstation product. The Reason community has been clamoring… Read More Propellerheads Rumors

Akai APC40 Ableton Live Controller Pricing, Availability

Akai Professional has announced that the APC40 Ableton Performance Controller will launch worldwide on May 30, 2009. The APC40 has U.S. Retail Price of $599.00 and an anticipated street price of $399.00. APC40 Ableton Performance Controller Details Akai Professional worked with Ableton to produce the APC40. The APC40 is designed to be a powerful, intuitive… Read More Akai APC40 Ableton Live Controller Pricing, Availability

In Praise Of Auto-Tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GBoqPDtmDw Frieze Magazine has published a article that takes a contrarian look at the musicality of Auto-Tune. Author Jace Clayton first recognizes the fact that many musicians hate AutoTuned vocals: Vocal purists hate Auto-Tune. They hear in its robotic modulations some combination of sugar-rush novelty, bulldozed nuance, jejune synthetics, loss of ‘soul’, disdain for innate… Read More In Praise Of Auto-Tune