Okay, safety first. Casio says: Due to a manufacturing defect, certain CTK-710 keyboards may present a smoke and/or fire hazard, which could result in serious injury or property damage. No reports of injuries have been received by Casio to date. Casio is aware of five incidents of overheating, including two incidents that resulted in a […]

KORE2’s new face reveals its second generation is already looking much closer to our original desire for the tool: give us a powerful, accessible environment for treating plug-ins like modular building blocks. The first KORE may be hanging out in my closet at the moment. But the new KORE2 makes it look like someone got […]

Moog keys as your best band made: a (non-sampled) instrument, as photographed by A. Mart (via Flickr). Just in from the Messe trade show in Frankfurt: a massive Moog sample library with 22 of “Moog’s Greatest Hits” of yesterday and today, plus sampler and guitar processing updates from IK. But will it all be a […]

Ribbons are back! Arturia already announced it was making hardware instead of just software, and only two months later it’s added a ribbon and keyboard in this bad-ass form factor. No room for hardware? Their Jupiter-8V continues their soft synth tradition. After conquering the world of software emulations, Arturia is finally thinking inside the box […]

The trend of gelatinous music interfaces continues. Last week, it was Eric Singer’s Slime-o-Tron, as seen at the Etsy/MAKE/CDM evening. Now, via the increasingly-hopping CDM flickr pool, A*A*R*O*N sends us his Jell-O sound sculpture, looking a bit like an alien brain with wires coming out of it. Jello Sound Sculpture [flickr] There’s always room for […]

Reasons to get your electronic music career / video directing gigs on track: you get to use enormous, cavernous studios for chroma key shoots with people dancing around in bunny outfits. Warning: NSFW, sophomoric bunny-on-bunny action. Not that it matters much to me: their shooting studio is what makes me blush. Keying outfits that nice […]

Ableton has an interesting teaser up on its website today: A new strategic partnership between Ableton and Cycling ’74 promises exciting developments on the horizon for digital media creators, producers, and performers. Ableton CEO and cofounder Gerhard Behles and Cycling ’74 CEO David Zicarelli are pleased to announce this unique alliance between the two dynamic […]

MixDepot.net, a file-hosting service for DJs and musicians, will soon be no more (thanks, David, for the heads-up!): Effective May 1, 2007, mixdepot.net will be shutting down. I’ve suspended billing so there won’t be a charge for the final month of service. Thanks for your support, and I wish you the best of luck in […]

Adobe’s new audio application, compatible with Intel Macs and Windows PCs, has been formally announced today. CDM was one of the first sites to look in-depth at Soundbooth CS3 back in the fall, and we broke the story that the software would be available as a standalone. Now we have a little bit more in […]