Public betas just continue to grow in popularity — and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been participating in Adobe public betas for Flash, Lightroom, and Soundbooth, and in each case the developers have gotten the opportunity to respond to user feedback while I’ve gotten the chance to work tools more gradually into a workflow. Vista’s […]

Okay, makers of good stuff: we’re looking for you to join in. I first heard about the fantastic sell-stuff-you-make community, Etsy, from a reader here on CDM, shortly after the service launched. Now, Etsy has become a real phenomenon for people who make stuff, giving them a high-quality venue in which to network with other […]

It seems that the wait is almost over for those wanting to shoot cinema-quality footage digitally with a camera that looks like a gun from Aliens. RED have just released their pricelist. The Red One camera with premium production pack. This was never going to be a cheap endeavour. Yes, the camera body is an […]

The good folks at Resolume have a traditional change log, but they’ve tried a different approach to describing why you should leap for their new 2.41 update: Sometimes you just need to enjoy the finer things in life, like listening to Ricardo Villalobos instead of Jeff Mills or to Belle & Sebastian instead of Body […]

In case you missed it on MAKE and Robert’s flight404 blog last week, Robert Hodgin’s mom has translated his algorithmic Processing sketches into real-world quilts. I think we shouldn’t stop here and let Yuko have all the fun. I’d love to see more Processing-based quilts and crafts soon. (Craft Magazine is just waiting for some […]

Who says turntables and software can’t coexist? Via Live PA, which has lots of commentary on live PA and live laptop performances. Plenty more where that came from on YouTube, including a number from K5fromTRIGGERS and this user, realtablist. Whether this is your kind of music or not, what works for me in this video […]

We’ve previously covered online distribution services which allow you to sell or otherwise monetize your video, but what if you’re just wanting to share and display your videos in the best possible light? There’s always Youtube, but the compression will mangle your beautifully rendered and painstakingly edited clips to death. Robert/Flight404 has dealt with this […]

Cat power. First of today’s evening diversions: Analog Industries discovers Nora the piano-playing cat. We don’t want to put Nora up on the main site, though, lest she scare the infinitely more talented Hatebeak the parrot. Conceptual albums. The folks at BornRich.org have a beautiful music tablet PC design up. (Thanks, Gizmodo.) Only problem: it’s […]

CAUTION: if you are still enjoying the EVO5 countdown, and don’t want to be tainted with any product details until the official announcement at Musikmesse in 15 days, STOP READING NOW! Preliminary specifications for the EVO5 digital mixer obtained by Create Digital Music reveal the folowing: It’s a 5-channel mixer with MIDI and effects. (Ok, […]

In June 2005, we first saw the Tenori-On, a futuristic music-making device covered in a grid of interactive, lit buttons, designed by the talented interactive artist Toshio Iwai as a prototype for Yamaha. Last week, Yamaha revealed some details about plans to make Iwai’s experimental device into a shipping product. (I missed this in preparations […]