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When you’re testing, be like the snow leopard, stalking its prey, patient, silent… okay, I’m tired. Photo (CC) Ian Duffy. The changes may be subtle, and you may not notice a thing. But if you upgrade your OS – any OS – the day it comes out for the ever-delicate work of live music and […]
PreSonus Hardware: First Show-Stopper Mac OS 10.6 Problem
Updated: PreSonus burned the midnight oil to get ready. See bottom. Word from developers confirms what I had suspected: developers were as surprised as we were to learn Apple was shipping a new operating system on August 30. If you have to ask yourself whether you want to upgrade, then the simple answer is – […]
Snow Leopard Watch: Changes, Compatibility, Caution, Native Instruments, Plogue
Rawr! A real snow leopard at age eight weeks at the Eichberg Zoo. Now, should you let the (operating system) snow leopard mature a little before you try to play with it? Photo (CC) Tamby Tamboko. Updated: See https://cdm.link/snowleopard for a running report. Apple’s “Snow Leopard” 10.6 ships Friday, which means it’s time to start […]
Snow Leopard Watch: Upgrade with Caution
"Okay, I’m totally awesome, now just be careful upgrading, okay?" Photo (CC) Shawn Kinkade. Snow Leopard is coming, but try to keep your cool. I’ve just finished the first of a series of previews for audio users considering the Mac OS Snow Leopard upgrade, due this Friday. This quote from Plogue, I think, is classic: […]
Mobile Projection with a Chihuahua
No, you’re not misreading that headline – it’s exactly what it sounds like. It’s a dog with a mini projector (and in some cases, a camera, apparently) strapped to his back. I’m not exactly sure this is something I would choose to do with a dog, but video artist Fernando Llanos says the animal is […]
Gorgeous Full-Sized Hammond B3 Controller for Native Instruments B4
Here’s someone who really, really loves Native Instruments’ B4 (II) software rendition of the Hammond B3 organ. The work of Markus Berger, this dead-ringer for a real B3 is actually a carefully crafted replica with elaborate MIDI control inside. The body is built by hand from cherry wood. Electronics were prototyped with the open source […]
Webcam Choreography: Director of Sour's "People as Pixels" Clip Explain Low-Budget Magic
We Love You So – the blog attached to Spike Jonze’s “Where The Wild Things Are” feature, continues to post lovely things. Recently they followed up with Magico Nakamura, one of the four “co-directors” of Sour‘s beautiful “Hibi no Neiro” video (previously on CDMo), interviewing him on the techniques they used to choreograph over 80 […]
Webcam Choreography: Director of Sour’s “People as Pixels” Clip Explain Low-Budget Magic
We Love You So – the blog attached to Spike Jonze’s “Where The Wild Things Are” feature, continues to post lovely things. Recently they followed up with Magico Nakamura, one of the four “co-directors” of Sour‘s beautiful “Hibi no Neiro” video (previously on CDMo), interviewing him on the techniques they used to choreograph over 80 […]
V-Synth GT, the Sound Designer’s Synth, Keeps Getting Better with Age
Photo (CC) Andez Ali / Andez Flamenco. It’s hard out there for a hardware synth. There are all these new-fangled soft synths, capable of producing radical sounds via easy-to-navigate on-screen interfaces. I have a very very short mental list of hardware synths that still matter to me for one reason or another – and the […]