You’ve waited. You’ve suffered. Some of you bought Intel Macs and couldn’t run your plug-ins. Others have been holding off on that slick new MacBook while your PowerBook dies a slow, prolonged death. Finally, though, the final wave of plug-ins are coming to the Intel Macs. There are still more to come, but the pace […]

Phillip over at Make Magazine has two goodies for us today. First up, lots of DIY synth circuit diagrams: DIY Synthesizer Pages [Make:zine] On the same note, be sure to check out musicsynthesizer.com, with enough resources to read through for the rest of 2006. But if you need more motivation to begin a DIY musical […]

Even in the age of computers, there are many cases when mixers come in handy. The drummer needs a click track. Hardware effects need special signal routing. You want to control monitoring of some live mics, and to adjust level directly. You need to mix the sound from your computer with external hardware, and don’t […]

Hot on the heals of releasing the cheap, compact USB DJ controller X-Session Pro, M-Audio now has a consumer package of the same unit with software included. Expected to have a street price of US$99 and sell at consumer outlets like Best Buy, the new package is about as close as I’ve ever seen to […]

M-Audio promised more wireless MIDI devices, and they’ve delivered: a 37-key keyboard in addition to the 25-key model, plus a standalone adapter you can use to turn any battery-powered instrument into a wireless controller. The M-Audio MidAir 37 is a 37-key version of the previous, wireless 25-key model. That leaves room for extra controllers (9 […]

General Specialist not only has an excellent name, but Jonas is supporting that name with excellent original content. The latest: “how to avoid the dreaded image buffer error“, with background on why it occurs, and a collection of tweaks and techniques for preventing this from happening. Unlike many other compositing and 3D programs, After Effects […]

General Specialist not only has an excellent name, but Jonas is supporting that name with excellent original content. The latest: “how to avoid the dreaded image buffer error“, with background on why it occurs, and a collection of tweaks and techniques for preventing this from happening. Unlike many other compositing and 3D programs, After Effects […]

General Specialist not only has an excellent name, but Jonas is supporting that name with excellent original content. The latest: “how to avoid the dreaded image buffer error“, with background on why it occurs, and a collection of tweaks and techniques for preventing this from happening. Unlike many other compositing and 3D programs, After Effects […]

Your stupid, low-tech t-shirts. All they do is sit there. You can’t even hook them into a computer and control instruments live. Pathetic. John Malloy points us to a project by Dr. Richard Helmer, an engineer from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Belment, Australia. By embedding “textile motion sensors” (using conductive […]

Java has long been freely-available, but now the entire Java platform and source code are fully open source and free under the GPL. Sun has posted a resource center for the announcement: Open Source Java It’s not available yet, but a new open source implementation of the platform and Java Development Kit, dubbed the OpenJDK, […]