MIDI Meets Mobile Linux Gaming: GP2X Portable Does MIDI Out

Marc writes with some great news for musically-inclined portable gaming fans — and visualists, too: Intially, after a while of finding out where the trouble was we nailed midi for littlegptracker running on GP2x. Here’s a little vid for it. Of course, another application would be also to use the 2x as sequencer to drive […]

New Donationware Radiohead Album Now Available for Download

As you’ve probably heard, Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows is available via a unique purchasing scheme: Online-only sales, direct from the artists. International: charged in GBP, but you can buy from anywhere in the world and the store will convert currency via credit card. (This detail is usually left out of the discussions; one problem […]

Meet the Anti-Piracy Vigilantes

How do you get new customers? How about filing lawsuits and taking a break-your-legs-style approach to busting recording studios via covert operatives? Yes, it’s Banpiracy.com, a new private business dedicated to threatening studios unless they “go legit.” Their efforts got started as part of Waves controversial sting operations in European studios. Now they’re coming for […]

Phil Dodds, The Synthesist You’d Want to Make First Contact, Dies

There are synthesists, and then there are people like Phil Dodds. He’s perhaps best-known as the man who wrangled the (real) ARP 2500 synthesizer in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind so that it could perform an elaborate jam session for (fictional) aliens. But he left an extensive legacy of achievements that helped […]

Video: Kraftwerk Computer World Gets Scandinavified, Modernised

What if Kraftwerk’s classic “Computer World” were made today? And, erm, what if Kraftwerk were actually Swedish? For all of you who dare to dream, our friend Audio Objekt has created a re-created version. (Warning: video contains occasional scandalous nude images as social critique, so it could be very briefly not safe for work.) Sing […]

Ridiculously Expensive Video Projector: The Rundco MBX-1 DLP

I’ll raise your Anjou Speaker Cables ($7250 for 12 foot of cable) with the Rundco MBX-1 3 Chip DLP Projector. The amazing specs are as follows: Variable Light Output up to 5000 ANSI Lumens 3-Chip DLPTM System with New, Dark Metal Process Technology 1280 x 1024 Resolution Contrast Ratio: 1100:1 Image Sizes up to 500″ […]

Widescreen Museum – Cataloging Cinema History

I’ve stumbled across a real gem the other day. In researching 2 and 3 strip film processing techniques, color spaces, and projection systems (yes nerdy I know…), I came across a link to the Widescreen Museum Old Color page, which offers an incredibly interesting technical overview of old film color techniques like Technicolor, Cinecolor etc. […]

First Max 5 Preview: Music Patching, the Next Generation?

Not just skin deep: Changing the Max interface should make it easier and faster to produce patches for beginners and advanced users alike. What’s this new Max about, and why was it such a big deal at the AES trade show? To really understand, let’s turn to gaming for a moment. When Nintendo described their […]

Ableton Live 7, Ableton Live Suite: Quick Look at What’s New

It’s the little things that matter. Hallelujah, Live 7 finally allows time signatures in Session View. Want more complex rhythms? Want full sets of songs in a single Session? Now it’s possible. There’s also time signature support in Arrangement view, which while anything but revolutionary, is a big relief. With various applications running roughly an […]

Zune 2.0 Does Video Out, Plenty Video Formats: Mobile VJing Continues

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