7 Reasons To Hate Microsoft Songsmith

Last week, we reported, rather breathlessly, that “Microsoft Songsmith Makes Everybody A Composer!” Here’s Microsoft’s ad for Songsmith: Microsoft Songsmith promises to let you create fully arranged songs by just singing into your computer. You sing, it adds music and nobody gets hurt, right? Not exactly. We’ve heard what Microsoft can do – and it’s not… Read More 7 Reasons To Hate Microsoft Songsmith

DSK Synthopia

DSK has come up with another freebie soft synth for Windows users – Synthopia. First, we better get this out of the way, up front – Synthopia and Synthtopia are not the same. Here are the top five ways to tell Synthopia apart from Synthtopia: Synthopia is a cool free software synthesizer; Synthtopia is a… Read More DSK Synthopia

Max For Live

2009 Winter NAMM Show: Cycling ’74 and Ableton have announced Max for Live – an alt/electronica synthgasm. Max for Live permits users to create devices that extend and customize Live by creating instruments, controllers, audio effects, and MIDI processors. In other words – it lets you make up bizarro electronic music stuff and put it… Read More Max For Live