Forget predictions. It’s hard enough just processing (or is that Processing) the powerful, new visual tools digital artists got in 2006. With that in mind, we, the Create Digital Motion co-editors Peter Kirn and Jaymis Loveday, take a fond look at our favorite tools and art for 2006. And you can bet that this list […]

Are game music themes becoming the new equivalent of the old jazz standards? Maybe, as game covers are going from novelty to meme. Matrix of Matrixsynth sends along this YouTube find. Yes, you can get any timbre you want out of a guitar; nice violin effects, as well. (Now we only need a “Give the […]

There’s nothing worse than owning a shiny, new MacBook and discovering you can’t run music software you want to run. “All I want for Christmas” (or Hannukah, too, as these are just in time) “is a Universal Binary.” Good news: my inbox continues to report incoming Intel-native plug-ins and instruments. XO Wave, pictured at right, […]

As widely expected, Apple has given its MacBook Core 2 Duo CPUs, as with its existing MacBook Pro. The MacBook ships with either a 1.83Ghz Core 2 Duo chip with a 2MB L2 cache or a 2 GHz CPU with a 4GB L2 cache. To me, the added MHz along with the added cache and […]

A do-all webcam that can float between computers sometimes seems an elusive goal. It’d be just the thing for video installations and live video at VJ/live visualist gigs, but usually you run into annoying driver issues. It’s frustrating that any webcam would even require drivers in the first place. USB webcams are essentially the same, […]

Suddenly, that dual-booting Mac isn’t looking like such a value: Boot Camp Beta 1.1: VGA adapters, Mini-DVI adapters are not supported Reader Robotkid notes S-Video won’t work, either. So, in review, if you want to boot your new MacBook into Windows XP, all will be fine — unless you happen to need to connect video […]

Suddenly, that dual-booting Mac isn’t looking like such a value: Boot Camp Beta 1.1: VGA adapters, Mini-DVI adapters are not supported Reader Robotkid notes S-Video won’t work, either. So, in review, if you want to boot your new MacBook into Windows XP, all will be fine — unless you happen to need to connect video […]

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 […]