MOTU has released a Universal Binary of their flagship DAW, Digital Performer 5.1: DP 5.1 Universal Binary (Intel Mac) Update Now Shipping [Free update, via MOTU.com] Thanks to John Molloy for the tip! Previously: Digital Performer 5 First Look: Instruments, Productivity Boosts, Scoring Features Now we just need Max/MSP, Reaktor and lots of other Native […]

iZotope has updated their awesome vinyl simulation plug-in with support for Intel Macs, Windows x64, and Pro Tools 7 (though it will still support Pro Tools 6.1 and later). If you haven’t yet got this on your system, now’s the time: using 64-bit processing (hey, it requires a lot of bits to simulate those old […]

Sibelius Software Ltd., maker of the popular Sibelius music notation software, has been acquired by Avid’s pro audio division, Digidesign, maker of Pro Tools. That means Sibelius joins M-Audio in industry-leading products in Digidesign’s portfolio. Here’s the official word from Sibelius co-creator/co-founder Ben Finn: I’m delighted to inform you that Sibelius Software Ltd has been […]

While you’re shooting that new footage (or reorganizing the old stuff) to submit to iStockVideo, you may like to keep something in mind: Green. Green is the theme for DVGuru’s first video contest. In putting this together they’re hoping to fill the void left by the demise of WeeklyDV. Word: Green Due Date: Monday, August […]

While you’re shooting that new footage (or reorganizing the old stuff) to submit to iStockVideo, you may like to keep something in mind: Green. Green is the theme for DVGuru’s first video contest. In putting this together they’re hoping to fill the void left by the demise of WeeklyDV. Word: Green Due Date: Monday, August […]

While I haven’t gotten official word from Korg, it appears the KAOSS Pad KP-3 is now official, as reported widely. (First full scoop this time appears to be SonicState (who have the most details) after a leak and later confirmation on Music thing.) Here’s what’s new, along with some other competing musical “grids”:

With New York City close to breaking its all-time record heat record of 101 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s over 38 degrees Celsius), non-renewable energy costs soaring, and Con Edison unable to deliver reliable electricity, it seems like an odd time to be advocating electronically-powered music. It must be time for solar power. Via Rozling on the […]

I got a chance to work with the inexpensive (US$99) but high-quality library of acoustic drum kits for Reason, Reason Drum Kits, in a brief review for Keyboard Magazine. You can read the full review online. What most impressed me was how cleverly the samples were integrated with Reason: Via what Propellerhead calls â€Å“hyper-sampling,â€Â? you […]

Perfectionism is the enemy of productivity, in music making, in blog posts, and in forum messages: Less activity in the forums … because there’s no “off-topic” forum We know you’re out surfing in this beautiful summer weather, or, erm, trying to prevent death by heat exhaustion here in the newly globally-warmed United States (101 in […]

Director Joseph Kahn lives in one crazy world. It’s a world in which sci-fi, comics, pop culture, and movies implode on one another into an insanely mashed-up mixup of media, delivered with a strong dose of digital effects. (Holy metaculture, Batman!) If anyone could save music videos, Kahn is your man. The Korean creative’s latest […]