One last minute addition to CDM’s wildly unrealistic and holiday gift guide that’s late enough to qualify as the post-holiday guide (that’s its unofficial name): Legendary Artist Peter Max Paints Baldwin Piano for Gibson Foundation Granted, not a digital instrument, but I still love acoustic pianos. Add a Moog PianoBar or a full-featured MIDI retrofit, […]
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Adobe Soundbooth Coming in Standalone, CS Bundle Versions; Lasso Tool History
Adobe product manager Hart Shafer confirms on his blog that Soundbooth, Adobe’s new audio editor, will ship both as part of Creative Suite 3 and as a standalone product. Apparently I’m not the only one who wanted to see a standalone version: Soundbooth Beta 2 Article Given that Audition is already bundled in the Windows […]
Lighting Quality Control: Check Your Bulb's Colour Rendering with Novelty Glasses
Dan of Dansdata has recently started a more personal blog. Whereas Dansdata is generally quite focussed on niche tech gadgetry reviews and solving reader problems, his new blog “How To Spot A Psychopath” (named after this page) is a little less focussed, running the gamut from reviews of spam emails, to using lego for casting […]
Lighting Quality Control: Check Your Bulb’s Colour Rendering with Novelty Glasses
Dan of Dansdata has recently started a more personal blog. Whereas Dansdata is generally quite focussed on niche tech gadgetry reviews and solving reader problems, his new blog “How To Spot A Psychopath” (named after this page) is a little less focussed, running the gamut from reviews of spam emails, to using lego for casting […]
Mac Shareware Gifts: Great, Giftable Music Apps
Having trouble keeping track of your song set? Minim might help. MacSanta has been making the Mac blog rounds by offering 20% off Mac shareware gems for the holidays. Look closely, and you’ll see a number of nice Mac music tools: Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack Pro: At first, you might think this app is just […]
Vista and Music App Compatibility: Reason, ReCycle, REX, ReWire
All the major music software developers I’ve talked to have begun testing Vista, but Propellerheads has decided to go out on a limb and be the first to declare it “Works with Vista”, slapping on Microsoft’s official “approved” label: Propellerhead Software Vista Compatibility The flagship Reason, the original loop splicer-dicer app ReCycle, and the sample […]