Amidst the news of GigaStudio’s demise, we’ve heard some isolated calls to open source Giga itself. There’s even an Open GigaStudio petition (via musicradar.com). The likelihood of open sourcing a code base as large as Giga’s, though, seems extremely slim. Making an open source project from a commercial developer successful requires a number of critical […]
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Super Smooth Stop-Motion Cooking: Pes' Western Spaghetti
It hasn’t been long since we last mentioned fantastic stop-motion animator Pes, but his latest offering takes his already quirky-yet-smooth style and adds considerably more awesome. PES’ Western Spaghetti from ideals creatives on Vimeo. The liquid effects here are absolutely wonderful, as are the various chopping and squashing parts. Animation is all about problem solving, […]
Super Smooth Stop-Motion Cooking: Pes’ Western Spaghetti
It hasn’t been long since we last mentioned fantastic stop-motion animator Pes, but his latest offering takes his already quirky-yet-smooth style and adds considerably more awesome. PES’ Western Spaghetti from ideals creatives on Vimeo. The liquid effects here are absolutely wonderful, as are the various chopping and squashing parts. Animation is all about problem solving, […]
Life After Giga: A Call for Open Source Sampling Development
In case you missed it in comments, amidst the news of a major pro sampling product being discontinued, reader Darren Landrum is interested in offering a free/GPL open source framework for samplers: The LinuxSampler project offers GigaSampler 3 compatibility for Linux and Windows, so it’s already an open alternative for dealing with your orphaned Giga […]
Life After Giga: SONiVOX Now Doing Their Own Development, Among Others
What do you do if Tascam lets you down, and you’re a sound house dependent on their GigaStudio/GigSampler player? For major soundware development house SONiVOX, the answer was: make your own software. Somerville, Mass-based SONiVOX has announced “announced the existence” of an in-house software development team. Read: the team has been there already, but they […]
Life After Giga: Kontakt 3 Free 64-bit Upgrade Soon on Mac, Windows
The current holy grail of sampling seems to be getting at more memory by providing 64-bit memory addressing, as I said this morning. With Tascam’s Giga out of the picture, it’s up to competing sampler products to deliver. Cakewalk’s Dimension Pro is already 64-bit support, as is their host, SONAR. Native Instruments points out […]
GigaStudio is Dead, Leaving Sampler Users High and Dry
Photo: titge. Tascam has chosen to cease development and support of its popular GigaStudio sampler and product line, including GigaPulse, GigaViolin, and Giga VI, breaking a widely-used product and various other products based on it. I had actually heard this was coming some time ago, but unfortunately couldn’t verify on-record sources in a way that […]
Global VJ Nation: Next Live Performers Meeting will be in Mexico
Ed.: The global visualist community is more underground than people outside the scene may realize. LPM is an essential event in which these artists come together. Events have tended to be in Europe, but now it’s North America’s turn — the other “United States,” the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Live Performers Meeting won’t be making their […]
Event Report: Live Performers Meeting, Roma 2008
The fifth edition of LPM brought 240 visualists from around Europe to the edgy splendour of Rome’s Mattatoio di Testaccio for a four day program incorporating 60 a/v performances and 60 vj sets. With a peer-to-peer philosophy and an open-submissions program, it was really encouraging not only to see practitioners in the field get to […]