Apple today announced iLife ’09, the latest version of its entry-level media software. There’s not a lot to get excited about with today’s updates, with the exception of iMovie ’09, which may finally be good enough to replace iMovie HD. iMovie ’09 adds features to let you create a movie quickly, or add refinements and… Read More Apple Introduces GarageBand ’09, Updated iMovie
Oliver Chesler, aka The Horrorist, has a great post today at his site – Work On Your Music, Not Your Excuses: There are only rare moments where you will feel the fire of a great song coming on and get into the studio fast enough to get it down. However, all your great songs are… Read More Motivational Advice From The Horrorist
Are you going to the 2009 NAMM Show? If so – leave a comment below! If there’s enough interest, maybe we can organize a synth fan get together.
This video demonstrates using TouchOSC, OSCulator, Ableton Live and AudioDamage’s BigSeq plugin. TouchOSC is an interactive control surface that outputs OSC messages, which can then be converted to MIDI notes and CC data by OSCulator and other programs. Very cool demo and the video is very effective at combining the different sources to make clear… Read More Control Ableton Live With Your iPhone
Macworld San Francisco 2009 starts next week – so MacRumors put together a Rumor Roundup summarizing speculation on what will be announced. We already know that Steve Jobs is not planning to make an appearance and that Apple is not planning on participating in future events. This suggests that Apple is likely to save its most important… Read More MacWorld Apple Rumor Roundup
We’ve been posting a lot lately – here’s a quick digest of the top posts from the last week, in case you missed them: Zune Owners Everywhere Cursing That They Cheaped Out Posted on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 in iPods & Portable Media Players – Comments: (4) Zune owners everywhere are cursing the day that… Read More Popular Posts On Synthtopia From 29th December – 4th January
Puremagnetik has launched a sound design contest. The goal is to create a collection of drum racks and clips in Ableton Live using a sound set they provide: Puremagnetik has created a custom sound set for you to download, warp, morph, mangle and destroy! 1) Login and Download the Selector Library Here. 2) The Selector… Read More Sound Design Contest
Music Science Guy has published a guide to the Harmonic Table system – an alternate layout for music keyboards: This is a “twice folded scale” whereupon we have notes evenly spaced out, in intervals called a major second, and fold them twice, first by octave, and then again, so that the octave family of harmonics(1,… Read More A Guide To The Harmonic Table
Camille Troillard has created a free library that lets you use the Percussa AudioCubes with your own programs. The library is written in C and is available for Mac OS X and Windows. The goal is to make a library that is robust, easy to learn, and that covers most the functionalities the cubes are offering. The libcube library… Read More Free Software Library For The Percussa AudioCubes
GForce has published a 2008 end-of-year webcast, featuring tracks created with GForce instruments. You an listen to it here. GForce Webcast Track Listing Track Name Artist Featured GForce Instruments Skip O Tron Dave Spiers www.gforcesoftware.com M-Tron Pro Optitron Dave Spiers www.gforcesoftware.com M-Tron Pro, VSM & impOSCar Superwow Sorry Computer www.myspace.com/sorrycomputer www.putte.de www.myspace.com/puttesound M-Tron Pro… Read More GForce End Of Year Webcast 2008
