The blogosphere this week is all abuzz about the supposedly desire-inducing Upravlator. The awkwardly-named hardware comes from Art Lebedev, the mysterious designer who first promised the Optimus Keyboard, a unique “design concept” with tiny color displays under each key. That indeed sounds cool, but instead, after months of delays and promises, the shipping product turned […]

Two readers have sent follow-up videos (well, one a sort of slide show with audio) regarding tools previously mentioned on CDM, so it’s time to check in and see if we can learn more about these products. Electronic Kits Get your kit on. Some readers lamented that the Zendrum MIDI controller was a compact unit […]

Homebrew compatibility and a USB port, on a DS Lite: pure heaven. Photo: Gizmodo.com “grope”. (Lucky bastards.) Homebrewed software is the key to making the Nintendo DS a platform for electronic musicians and not just mainstream gamers. The challenge, though, is getting homebrew software to work; unfortunately, piracy concerns have made the hardware somewhat less […]

Processing.org‘s fabulous exhibition has been updated with Grass, an installation by The Barbarian Group for Saturn (the car) shown at the recent Wired Nextfest here in New York. As usual, something that looks quite simple has a lot of elements: Being from Kentucky, I suddenly want to take off my shoes. Installation: Barbarian Group relied […]

Live 6 now lets you work in arrangement view with video as easily as with audio. That could mean you’ll be seeing lots of homebrewed Ableton Live music videos online very soon. Live 6 isn’t any VJ app, in that you can’t use the video clips in Session View — a feature I’ve heard users […]

Video production ubersite Creative Cow has two great new After Effects video tutorials. First up: Andrew Kramer’s “iPod Nano Light Streaks”. Using Trapcode Particular and a custom particle shape with healthy doses of hue adjustment and glow to produce an effect similar to the newest iPod ads. Adding some subtle animation to the custom particle […]

Video production ubersite Creative Cow has two great new After Effects video tutorials. First up: Andrew Kramer’s “iPod Nano Light Streaks”. Using Trapcode Particular and a custom particle shape with healthy doses of hue adjustment and glow to produce an effect similar to the newest iPod ads. Adding some subtle animation to the custom particle […]

Video production ubersite Creative Cow has two great new After Effects video tutorials. First up: Andrew Kramer’s “iPod Nano Light Streaks”. Using Trapcode Particular and a custom particle shape with healthy doses of hue adjustment and glow to produce an effect similar to the newest iPod ads. Adding some subtle animation to the custom particle […]