Every time I hear someone talk about their first experience hearing a Moog product, the response is the same: “I had no idea it could do THAT.” NAMM is generally a time for looking at lot of pictures and spec sheets on gear, which is funny, because music is all about hearing. (Forget the floor: […]

A funny thing has happened this year: just as multi-core computers are making software more powerful, DSP has gotten easier and cheaper. Result: new hardware that behaves like software. Look no further than long-time software-only, analog emulation house Arturia, who have unveiled a new hardware synth called Origin that builds on the legacy of their […]

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 […]