Loop Phasing: Steve Reich vs. Star Trek’s Worf vs. Orbital

For those not in the know, Steve Reich is one of the major so-called “minimalist” composers of the 20th Century; some of his early works of the 1960s focused on compositions made from tape loops falling out of sync or “out of phase” with one another. This includes the seminal works “It’s Gonna Rain” and […]

Thomas Dolby Extras: Live Performance Technical Details, Logic + Max/MSP

Photo randomduck. At the 1985 Grammies, Thomas Dolby played alongside Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. It was the golden age of synths and keyboard-driven pop. (Yeah, I know, some of us kinda miss those days.) But Thomas Dolby is significant, as well, as one of the pioneers of the computer-driven one-man band. Almost […]

Mac Users: Beware QuickTime 7.2? (Hey, Apple, Easy on the Updates!)

Users are reporting a number of serious problems with QuickTime 7.2; see our sister site, Create Digital Motion, for more. (Or head straight to MacFixIt, though already we’re hearing isolated reports that haven’t even hit MacFixIt yet.) Possible symptoms: difficulty with Adobe applications, Rosetta failing to work entirely (yipes!), video file problems, and more. This […]

Quicktime 7.2 update – be afraid.

Yesterday Apple released iTunes 7.3.1 and Quicktime 7.2. With updated h.264 transcoding, numerous bug fixes and free fullscreen support for those without Quicktime Pro. It also provides iPhone exporting options and seems to enable 640×480 captures from certain iSights which were limited to 320×240. Oh, and it breaks Rosetta. Ok, not to be overly sensational, […]

Regarding that Quartz Composer issue…

As noted in my Blackmagick Intensity review, we noticed some odd behavior with Quartz Composer introducing some very large latency from the Intensity Card. We some noted up to 45 frames of delay. It looks like this may very well be a bug with Quartz Composer, as Apple is now aware of the situation: From […]

Updated PSP Slim at E3 – Now with video output support

This could be an very interesting option for VJ’s. Sony has updated the PSP line with some nice additions, slimmer (thus the PSP Slim moniker), longer battery life and decreased load times. But, we dont really care about those. What we care about is video output support: Adding a video-out port(*1) enables new PSP users […]

Eerie Quiet, Days Before Monday’s “End of Internet Radio” Deadline

Photo: geodesic. Cricket sound: provided by you. Hear that? Nothing. No, it’s not silence making a political point, as with the Internet Radio Day of Silence staged last week by web radio to protest punishing new royalty rates by showing what they could cause. This is an even more disturbing silence: as the deadline for […]

10.4.10 Breaks Some FireWire Interfaces; 10.5 Changes Already Rolling Out

As Apple revealed in a description for a session at WWDC, OS X 10.5 includes enhanced USB and FireWire audio support. Some of that functionality is already arriving in the 10.4.10 update, which incorporates the FireWire SDK 24 and FireWire 2.1. (The SDK also includes “most” of the source for Leopard’s upcoming FireWire stack.) You […]

IK Multimedia Vista-Ready: AmpliTube, SampleTank, Sonik Synth, T-RackS, More

All along the watchtower, Princes kept the Vista: IK’s Hendrix software emulation, now on the newest Windows. IK Multimedia says its whole product line is now ready for Vista, fully tested across the software line. The latest versions work; if you have an older version, your mileage may vary: Ampeg SVX AmpliTube 2 AmpliTube Jimi […]