Ha, dual core? How last year can you get? It’s all about eight-core now, baby: The Pro Tools HD 7.3.1 cs3 update can be installed over Pro Tools HD 7.3 or Pro Tools HD 7.3.1, and includes all updates that were previously made available in the 7.3.1, 7.3.1cs1 and 7.3.1cs2 releases. Pro Tools HD 7.3.1 […]

DV Creators.net has posted a nice quicktime tutorial demonstrating Motion 3’s new motion tracker and match move capability. While not perfect, the motion tracker should save you some time if trying to track objects. Whats quite nice however is the match move capability. Check it out.

Moving Brands is the kind of creative house we love, one that heralds a new era of design, in which design work is responsive, interactive, dynamic, real-time — in short, live, digital motion for visualists. Processing gurus Toxi and Chris O’Shea worked on one of their most recent events, featuring sonically-generated visuals for the slick, […]

Part of why we have a music and a motion site is because there’s so much crossover between visuals and music creation, not in spite of it. A couple of recent features on the sister site, the Good Ship Create Digital Motion: Wii-controlled visuals. Wii VJ: Wii Remote vs. MacBook Pro Video/Audio Sampler. The awesomely-talented […]

Those zany, wonderful YouTubers. A YouTube post in April challenged YouTubers to show off home-built instruments: And there’s a terrific lineup of responses, like this performance on Tupperware musical instruments, by Adachi Tomomi: Video is a natural medium, after all, for showing off DIY instruments. Now, if only we could start doing this on a […]

Flash drives: ultra-fast. Zero noise. Absurdly awesome reliability. Now, replacing your hard drive. That’s the vision, anyway. Flash memory, once limited to very tiny chunks, is slowly creeping towards storage big enough to use for audio. You’ve already got flash storage around, most likely, because of devices like Apple’s iPod nano and iPhone. But 4GB […]

“If only Live could …” Hard-core Live users dream of more than just an extra feature widget or two. They imagine a world in which they can hack and alter the way Live itself behaves. They want the ability to develop software that works with Live at a low-level. In short, what they want is […]

In just over a year, the open source Monome hardware has become a cult hit among musicians. A grid of buttons seems deceptively simplistic; I have to admit I was skeptical at first. But the Monome has spread by word of mouth because this simple design can be elegant, because the build quality and touch […]

Macworld, naturally, spends a lot of time focused intently on Apple hardware while I get distracted by beatboxing parrots and modular synthesizers built out of yarn and rubber bands. They have an excellent write-up of the significance of the MacBook Pro Santa Rosa upgrades, with comments on their benchmarks of the equivalent refreshed MacBooks: MacBook […]

Audio, relying primarily on the CPU, can do fine on the non-pro MacBook: a fast CPU and FireWire 400 can be all you need. But for visualists, the GPU has become more and more vital. The integrated Intel GPU on the MacBooks is surprisingly capable, and certainly gets through basic video mixing. But throw enough […]