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 […]

An anonymous reader has Ableton Live running successfully on Apple TV — yes, Apple TV the actual hardware. If you haven’t been watching the Mac blogs, the Apple TV is in fact a mini computer and hackers are all over it. Suddenly, what looked like somewhat bland hardware may become more popular because of hackers. […]

I featured VJKungFu last week, taking a prod at Momo for not creating more articles. Well the prod worked: Momo has been demoing the NuVJ at apple stores around the US, and now brings some video tutorials to VJKungFu: NuVJ Crash Course and Crossfader Triggering with the NuVJ. [tags]nuvj, numark, vjkungfu, hardware, software, tutorials, podcasts, […]

Prolost has some interesting discussion of 35mm DV Adapters, prompted by the release of a new option: the G35. Some of the most cinematic digital images I’ve seen lately have not been from a Panavision Genesis or a Dalsa Origin, but rather from a Panasonic DVX100a equipped with a device that would have engineers screaming […]

When purchasing an audio mixer, DJs are quite literally spoilt for choice. Visualists are a little constrained though, with only a handful of companies making a couple of vision mixer models each. This situation is improving rapidly though, with companies such as Vixid getting in on the act with their upcoming VJX16-4, and DJ company […]