Pd as eye candy? Believe it. vade sends this shot of his work with Pd on Leopard. Pd, aka Pure Data, is the free and open-source cousin of Max/MSP/Jitter. It’s powerful — even sometimes having technical advantages over Max — but has suffered from complex installation and dependencies, poor documentation, and an unpolished interface. Enter […]

Easily my YouTube pick of the day, individually-tuned voices on this classic LinnDrum LM-2 drum machine make wonderful beats. Thanks to Matt Bean (of Men’s Health magazine, no less) for bringing this vid to my attention. Skip to the part where it starts making sound, and you’ll get it right away. YouTuber rolandsh1000, who has […]

I’ve already got a big, gold necklace that says “slice 2 midi.” My friend Francis Preve has been working on Live 7 through its development, but he’s finally gotten a break long enough to talk about what’s new in this version: Ableton Live 7 – sneak preview [Beatportal] Being close to the development, what Fran […]

Developer Harmonix has specialized in interactive musical game creations, most recently the hit games Guitar Hero and (forthcoming) Rock Band. But developing for console platforms is one thing. What about an iPod? In a small miracle, a team at Harmonix has managed to successfully create a surprisingly rich game experience for iPod owners. Called Phase, […]

Native Instruments’ software is already compatible with Mac OS X Leopard with some minor issues; the one significant issue was a problem with installers, and they’ve just corrected that: Native Instruments Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Universal Installer Patch: direct download link If you need to install NI software on a clean system […]

Today on the VJ-U netcast we’ll be interviewing Aleksej, director of Circus of Now, a large-scale multimedia event design company. Among other things, we’ll discuss their Intelligent Media Composer, a polymorphic HD projection system that can dynamically mix timelines of pre-produced content with live feeds. Join us in the studio to ask questions or watch […]

This is just a quick note to say that the winners of the Circuit-Bending Challenge will be announced shortly, now that I’m back from a short vacation and online. No, we didn’t forget about you and all your hard work.