It’s NAMM time, which means we’ve got a deluge of new gear to sort through. And while here at CDM we believe you can make music without pricey tools, we enjoy drooling and lusting as much as anyone else. Next week, we can go back to being practical and budget-minded. CDM Team Coverage begins now. […]

In the immortal words of Burt Bacharach: Beware of The Blob, it creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch Be careful of The Blob It’s true, Burt. Tracking multiple blobs in an image for motion tracking, in order to […]

In FL world, this is an integrated wave editor. Those aren’t even supposed to be fun. In FL7, they even include integrated convolution reverbs. Getting the picture? Despite an intensely loyal following, FL Studio is very possibly the most underrated music creation package on the market. It’s the only major music software to offer customers […]

Physical-modeled electric piano, now a little more physical The NAMM of the DJ? Don’t worry, synth lovers: beloved, long-lost synth maker Waldorf are back in a big way with a lineup of new synth hardware products. Drool over them in a gorgeous PDF brochure filled with mock-ups, but here’s the full lineup. (As reported by […]

Yeah, thanks a lot, Will Wright. Now can you breed a new us that’s immune to procrastinating the rest of our lives to play your game? Just when we thought we might escape Will Wright’s upcoming PC game, Spore, and get some work done, it turns into a compositional must-have. Regine Debatty, who gets to […]

E-MU was once a beloved moniker in the music gear business. Now owned by Creative Labs, they’ve made a new name for themselves with software versions of their sound modules and value-priced keyboards and interfaces — but Mac users haven’t been invited to the party. So I was surprised when I heard Mac users coming […]

Eleven months before Steve Jobs took the stage, hrmpf.com broke the real story of the iPhone. But could that patent reveal more? Remember patent 0060026536? It’s the multi-touch, gestural patent Apple filed that was clearly the precursor of the Apple iPhone. Here’s the curious thing: the iPhone, as demonstrated at the Macworld keynote, isn’t all […]

After the Macworld keynote glow wears off, the question is, will the iPhone be another closed box, shut off to brilliant third-party developers? It’s not as if we won’t have choices. Gizmodo points out the open-source OpenMoko alternative. But there’s still some hope Apple might let developers in — and even Flash would be fantastic. […]

For the record, this is not my hand. If it were my hand, you’d see me tweaking Max/MSP or something. To whomever may own this hand: sorry I didn’t have you sign a release on the tablet. -PK Tablets have always held a special, niche appeal for musicians. For notation, they’re invaluable: you can prop […]