As widely expected, Apple has given its MacBook Core 2 Duo CPUs, as with its existing MacBook Pro. The MacBook ships with either a 1.83Ghz Core 2 Duo chip with a 2MB L2 cache or a 2 GHz CPU with a 4GB L2 cache. To me, the added MHz along with the added cache and […]
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Water-and-Laser Music Controller, A Look Back at Watery Musical Instruments
Is it the call of the ocean? The primordial urge to return to our pre-human evolutionary roots, the womb? Hand dryness caused by too many hours at the computer? Whatever the reason, interactive musicians keep designing wild instruments involving water. The latest comes from Australian hacker / designer / instrument builder Sebastian Tomczak. He’s turned […]
Audio Damage Working on Beat Repeat-Like “Replicant” Plug-in
Audio Damage, the indie plug-in developers who keep churning out some of our favorite plug-ins, do love to tease their fans with screen shots of their software in-development. The latest is something called Replicant: Teaser… Pt. 3 Like Beat Repeat in Ableton Live , Replicant performs some automatic slicing and dicing of incoming audio with […]
Open-Source ActionScript: Adobe and Mozilla Team Up
Open-source ActionScript meets Mozilla: it’s either a geek wet dream or an odd title for a Japanese monster flickr. Emmy Huang, Product Manager for Flash Player at Adobe, reports on her blog: New open source project with code contributed from Adobe ActionScript Virtual Machine See also Tamarin Project page at mozilla.org Now, before you get […]
Emmy-Award Winning Flash
Adobe’s Flash Video has won an Emmy Award for technical acheivement. Via Macworld: Flash Video Gets an Emmy Previous winners of the same award have included Apple’s Final Cut Pro. (But not Adobe Premiere, as far as I know — maybe next year.) 2006 is certainly Flash Video’s year, thanks to the phenomenal success of […]
Thomas Dolby + BT on Tour in US
One music tour in 2006 may pack more lines of code and more IQ points than any other: the meeting of BT and Thomas Dolby. This should be a really fantastic tour given the buzz on each artist lately, and if you want to see people doing unique stuff with computers as performance instruments, this […]
Monome: Open Source Hardware Means Hacking Whatever You Want
What good is open source hardware? How about hacking in additional functionality by adjusting the code and electronics? The creators of Monome have a new video demonstrating some of the possibilities for user modifications to their hardware project. Included: Optical encoders allow additional multi-touch interactions, for a game of Life (the grid-based life simulation of […]
Homebrew Music on Nintendo DS, Now Easier with DS-X Update; LEDs Dance to Music
We were already very excited about the DS-Xtreme (“DS-X”) when we first saw it. In brief, why the DS-X makes us drool: DS storage Play media files Run homebrew software Connect directly to a computer via USB No weird hardware sticking out of the back of your DS that could get broken (Previously: DS-Xtreme, Plug-and-Play […]
Phat 101: Ohmforce’s Forces Explain Plug-in Effects Tricks in Free Videos
Music tech videos have begun to infect YouTube (you know, between footage of bunny rabbits opening letters). As the opening moments of wackiness commence, you might think the following videos from cult-success French plug-in developers Ohmforce has plenty in common with the cracked-out Museum of Techno videos we’ve been watching. What these videos have in […]