`Em are ducks! Surprise! The one application with which I’ve had the most success on my Vista turns out to be Max/MSP/Jitter, the niche, Mac-first multimedia application built by a small handful of developers. Without so much as a single update, Jitter is running perfectly on Vista, running on an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 card […]

Manufacturers have attempted to make USB connections for audio and MIDI more transparent before. We’ve seen mics with USB cords instead of XLR, and USB cables with little humps in the middle with built-in circuitry for MIDI connections. But new cables announced this week by Chinese manufacturer CME go further: a USB/MIDI cable that’s as […]

Most musicians will be waiting some time before running Vista, so if you can’t upgrade to a new OS, upgrade the OS you’ve got. Our friend Brad, aka Internet indie singer-songwriter star Brad Sucks, is getting into laptop performance and wants some tips for tuning Windows XP. He writes: I’d be interested in asking your […]

Preparation for the tour is winding up, and it’s looking like – not satisfied with my current workload to have visuals ready – I will be working on the general stage lighting utilizing projectors rather than traditional lighting rigs. The software side is looking like a Jitter job, but I haven’t been keeping up with […]

eBoy’s brilliant, pixel art and character design is a real gem if you haven’t seen it. Translating that isometric 3D world into animation, though, is no mean trick. That’s why this latest animation is so stunning: Great tip: be German. (That works for electronic music, too, you know.) Via Ektopia and uber-hip Urban Retro Lifestyle. […]

eBoy’s brilliant, pixel art and character design is a real gem if you haven’t seen it. Translating that isometric 3D world into animation, though, is no mean trick. That’s why this latest animation is so stunning: Great tip: be German. (That works for electronic music, too, you know.) Via Ektopia and uber-hip Urban Retro Lifestyle. […]

Vista for visualists is a problematic proposition. Typically, musicians have the toughest upgrade curve with any OS, but there’s a major incentive for musicians with Vista, as reported on CDM: the promise of significantly improved audio performance and stability. Right now, there isn’t enough software or hardware support for most musicians, though I expect that […]

No matter how many music tech toys you have, no matter how many music tech toys you’ve ever seen, Nine Inch Nails still has more. Michael Hetrick writes to point us to his latest post over on KVR: Total Gear-Porn on new NIN site [KVR Audio Forums] It’s especially nice to see some of the […]

Music lovers, online tools are getting more useful. They can even recognize that song you can’t remember (boy, there are there some evenings of my life I’d like back), and keep you from missing your favorite artists’ gigs in your home town. Midomi lets you search for artists and songs the old-fashioned way, via text […]

Yes, I’m enjoying our new inter-post asides to create fabulous new non sequitur combination headlines. More on Windows Vista’s audio guts: MS developer Larry Osterman explains (well, sort of) the new audiodg.exe “host audio engine.” The DRM bit is nasty, but the good news is it doesn’t seem to have an adverse impact on music […]