Apple pissed off a lot of musicians today, by introducing a new line of sexy MacBooks with no FIreWire ports. Here’s the port lineup for the new MacBooks: MagSafe power port Gigabit Ethernet port Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps) Mini DisplayPort Audio line in Audio line out Kensington lock slot Yep –… Read More Apple Kills Off FireWire With New MacBooks
Is Apple planning a multi-touch DJ application? Read Apple’s patent application, and let me know what you think: [0145]FIG. 23 illustrates another embodiment of the invention for manipulating the replay and recording of audio or musical files. As shown in FIG. 23, a music application 830 can display a pair of virtual turntables 842 and… Read More Apple’s Touch Screen DJ Program
OT: PageTable has an interesting look at an audio archaeological project – reconstructing Apple 1 Basic from a 30 year-old cassette recording At that time, it was commonplace to store programs as audio recordings on cheap cassette tapes: The original output of the Apple I when writing the tape was a square wave, but the… Read More Audio Archaeology Of Apple 1 Basic
Awesome Synthopia reader Anya Graham translated a recent Jean-Michel Jarre interview for us, and I thought it would be great to share. Thanks Anya! The intervew has a strong Apple focus, but is still interesting for its insight into how this synth music pioneer uses current technolog: You’ve used Apple products for a long time,… Read More Jean-Michel Jarre Apple Interview
Apple France has a look at Jean-Michel Jarre and his use of Macs and Logic Pro. Here’s a short excerpt, through Google automatic translation: Jean-Michel Jarre says his passion for the Mac You are using Apple products for a long time. De quels matériels disposez-vous ? What materials do you have? I am a big… Read More Jean-Michel Jarre On Using Macs, Logic Pro
Apple has released an update for Logic Pro. The 8.0.2 update fixes over 100 issues with the application ranging from MIDI to automation. Here’s what’s been fixed in the update:
This is almost to ridiculous to be true. The major music labels are so concerned about Apple’s dominance in the world of digital music that they are betting their future on Napster. The major labels have teamed up with Napster to offer what they are calling “the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store.” Yep… Read More The Music Industry Gets Desperate & Bets On Napster
AT&T hotspots are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and presumably all of AT&T’s 71,000 hotspots are now offering iPhone users a custom portal to access free Wi-Fi. A special iPhone formatted page asks for your mobile phone number. Once entered, you can access the Wi-Fi access for free.… Read More Free WiFi For iPhones, Laptops
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
Apple today released an update to Garageband that addresses multiple bugs: This update improves overall stability and addresses issues with the automation of software instrument parameters, FireWire and USB based audio devices and Magic GarageBand. Magic Garageband is the spawn of hell – so that doesn’t sound too interesting, but bug fixes are always welcome.
