Mike of HD for Indies fame has an article on DV.com on building a workstation (Mac or PC) for HD editing and post/correction. Getting the right gear involves lots of decisions. I often spend an hour or two reviewing filmmakers’ or producers’ needs before we arrive at a system recommendation. Every shop and every project has […]

At the very least, it looks like Apple is working on significant new music software features, as you might expect. But depending on how you read their patents, new music hardware — even touchscreen hardware — could be in store. Apple is a big company with a lot of intellectual property, so teasing out patents […]

While not as well known as some bigger-name DJ apps, PCDJ has some loyal fans in the Create Digital Music community, with good reason. The app has long had an agnostic approach to vinyl control formats, supporting everything from Final Scratch to Ms. Pinky. And it gains popularity points with lovers of custom effects by […]

We already knew that Leopard would be a major new OS release for Apple in the visual sense with Core Animation, much as Tiger was with Quartz Composer, Core Video, and Core Image. We should know a lot more at Apple’s developer conference in June. There are some additional details in Apple’s latest WWDC announcement, […]

If you ever want to stimulate the visual centers of your brain as you work with your graphics tools of choice, there’s endless inspiration from the visualist blogosphere. In case you missed it in comments, our friend vade has done some terrific work using Max/MSP/Jitter and “glitchy” texture mapping. I just now noticed he was […]

Computers are wonderful for making live visuals. But there’s something to be said for 2-channel video mixing on DVD, even if it’s just as a backup system for your computer rig. Via the Japanese site envol! VJ, we find this lovely gem from Kawasaki: dual 7″ displays, integrated dual DVDs with dedicated outputs, and dual […]

Electronic musician BT recently had US$150,000 in gear stolen from his studio, including his primary show computer with the entire This Binary Universe show on it and rigs for two other live shows and recording. He doesn’t just want to get his stuff back, though: he also wants to help musicians protect themselves from a […]

Angle grinders, screwdrivers, a sledgehammer. All important parts of your live rig if you’re part of 5VoltCore. Here’s the video, and the show description (thanks emanuel): We mount cables stripped of isolation on an audio amplifier and use these to create short circuits and faulty currents on the chips of the graphic card of a […]