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Vade interviewed on VJ-U
I’m sure the only reason he hasn’t posted it here is that he’s extremely humble, but Benton-C has a very interesting interview with Vade posted on VJ-U, discussing a whole range of subjects CDMo readers hold very dear.
Off The Shelf RAID 5 for Uncompressed Editing on HD4NDs
Mike has a bit of a discussion on using RAID for uncompressed editing. Mac-centric, but the same issues apply for the PC world. Mike links to a 2 reviews (here and here) of the Caldigit HDPro (US$8000 for 6TB). A little expensive, but one of his commentors points out that DIY systems can be put […]
PreSonus Does Vista Drivers, 32-bit and 64-bit
Some of my favorite audio interfaces are now available for Windows Vista. The INSPIRE 1394, FireBox, FP10 and FirePod are now all available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista. A bit late? Yes, but at this point, I care more about quality than punctuality. Anybody with the PreSonus boxes and Vista, we’d love to know […]
Make Your iPhone into a Drum Pad
Way back at the Apple iPhone introduction, I said I thought people would want to use the phone as a musical instrument. Well, here you go: meet BeatPhone, a clever code hack from a chilled-out Spanish mobile musician. Feature set: 9 one-shot pads 6 loop-pads Samples in “any” format : WAV, AIFF, … Output at […]
AES: A Season of Mobile Recorders, a Sweet New Sony, Says Mobilista Brad
Surprise! It’s a high-end Sony mobile recorder you could actually afford. The pretty new PCM-D50 lists at US$600, not four figures. If it sounds as good as its sibling, we could see some other mobile recorders on eBay. The search for the perfect field recorder continues: Brad Linder is a blogger, freelance journalist, and producer […]
Dare you accept the Circuit-Bending Challenge?!?
So I was having a little chat with the Circuit Master over at www.getlofi.com about how and why we both got into circuit bending. The number one reason, for me at least: tons of bend-able toys and devices can be found very cheaply at secondhand and thrift stores. Which brings us to this: The premise […]
Mobile Gaming Linux MIDI Means Synced Visuals and Trackers and Goodies
Via Create Digital Music, what’s great for chiptune fans and mobile gaming musicians is also good for VJs and visualists. (Thanks, MIDI!) Marc, Arkaos dev and homebrew game maestro alike, has posted video results of successful MIDI output on the Linux-based GP2X handheld game system, running Little GP Tracker, a MIDI tracker app: He points […]
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 […]