If I ran a giant blogging empire like Weblogsinc or Gawker, I’d have to pimp my other sites right now, like “Here’s the hottest news from the Facial Tissues Blog” or something. I’m glad I don’t have such an empire, because instead we can waste productivity looking at this great stuff: Tiny Tot Synth Lovers: […]
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In music video, Lebanese duo Rust captures emotions of “Diaspora”
Music October 11, 2024
Go support these Lebanese releases on Bandcamp
Music October 4, 2024
Asheville and southeast USA, we’re thinking of you
Music Music tech September 30, 2024
DEMX Awards Honor (Dubious) Digital Music Tech
GarageSpin has been covering the Digital Entertainment & Media Excellence Awards in the music category. Awards for digital innovation? Great idea! The only problem: the winners make no sense. Motorola’s iRadio wins the radio category, for instance, even though it’s basically marketing at this point — there’s no shipping product. It still managed to beat […]
Holiday Gift Guide: Best Digital Music Picks from Femalemusician.com
Online exclusive: Kicking off this week’s guide to holiday gifts, Theresa Orlando joins us from Female Musician.com. Theresa’s site and studio help young female musicians like vocalist Ashley Jewdy (shown) hone their craft and digital studio skills. Theresa brings us some of her favorite picks for musicians, including a book/video on breathing technique for singers, […]
Holiday Gift Guide: Best Gift Guides on the Web
Readers sent in so many ideas for gifts that I’m still digging through them; watch today/tomorrow. But here’s the latest from some of CDM’s favorite sites. And if your favorite gifts didn’t make the cut, there’s still time to email me / hit comments. Music thing Gift Guide (pictured): Just in case your wallet escaped […]
Blogger-sphere Down?
Matrix from the Matrixsynth blog tells us his site (and other Blogger.com sites like Music thing) are down, kaput, inaccessible. I’m having the same issue with their sites. Matrix asked me to pass this along to the rest of you, so here you are.
Free Audacity Audio Editor (Mac/Win/Linux) Gets Big Upgrades
Audacity is a completely free / open source waveform audio editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux, with robust stereo recording and editing, effects support, and basic multichannel features. It’s a great little program getting more and more exposure; M-Audio has even added it to their podcast bundle. But it has a few rough edges, and […]
Sweet Buchla Modular Dreams, Sexy Soft Synth
Reader Julian Sitkevich sends in some photos from the last NAMM. He proves just how dreamy the Buchla 200e can look in the dark; okay, I’m not any more tempted to shell out $20,000, but nonetheless. After the jump: the key to making soft synths look sexy is to add an Apple Cinema Display.
ProjectMix Price Mixup: What Price Audio + Motorized Faders?
How does this sound? 8 channel strips, 8 mic preamps (so you can record your whole band with individual drum mics, for instance), motorized faders and buttons, and compatibility with all major Mac and Windows audio tools from Ableton Live to Pro Tools, all for about US$1000 street. Sounds like a great deal, right? That’s […]
Your First (DIY) Synth; Wacky Case Photos
It’s a little hard to tell what the DIY synth diagrams over at Music From Outer Space actually produce, since they’ve opted for words like “Wacky Frequency” and “Oddness Cutoff Frequency.” But behind the zaniness is what looks like a very simple synth spec, and a good starter project for those wanting to get busy […]
What’s Shipping: Retro Pro-12 Synth Box, NI Guitar Rig 2, NI Software
We get a little ahead of the curve here, with drool-laden coverage of gear that doesn’t actually exist yet. Here’s what’s now shipping: Creamware is back with the second of their mini-hardware synths emulated retro classics. This time, it’s I love the 80s: a Prophet 5 emulation they’re calling the Pro-12; see press release on […]