I’ve been doing some more work on my Processing-Plotter setup. The current plan is to amass a collection of Processing sketches which perform various plotter functions – initialization, scaling, shade modes, layers, shapes, communication etc. – and then put them together as a Processing library. This is fun for me, but like the initial circle […]

Portable game consoles are fantastic things: do-all media players and mini-computers that are actually fun to use, small enough to carry, with powerful capabilities for just a couple hundred dollars. For computer musicians, they’re versatile devices that fit well into music setups, whether sequencing instruments or feeding videos to a projector. There’s only one problem: […]

Laptops and Mac minis are wonderful, but they don’t let you upgrade your CPU or fill two PCI slots with hyper-powerful video cards. I’ve been loving lugging my Shuttle XPC to gigs, in a custom Shuttle case that I can carry on the subway or in cabs. But if it hadn’t tempted you yet, this […]

Apologies to anyone who’s on Processing overload, but we keep finding fantastic work. Quasimondo’s Rubber Screen maps an image to a 3d mesh and then lets it jiggle like hyperactive Jell-o. The still image doesn’t do it justice; you have to try it out. Like the 90s app Goo, you can warp images in comical […]

Apologies to anyone who’s on Processing overload, but we keep finding fantastic work. Quasimondo’s Rubber Screen maps an image to a 3d mesh and then lets it jiggle like hyperactive Jell-o. The still image doesn’t do it justice; you have to try it out. Like the 90s app Goo, you can warp images in comical […]

East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Choirs is without question one of the most extensive and sophisticated choir sample libraries on the market. In order to put such a mammoth to the test, I felt that that it was important to be more critical of the software from a professional perspective, and that I must be […]

Remembering Bob Moog, one year after the music world lost one of its great pioneers, CDM contributor James Grahame offers his own look back: Bob Moog is legendary within the music industry, yet his products didn’t leap into the consumer mainstream like later digital offerings from companies like Casio and Yamaha. But — believe it […]

Native Instruments, the hardware company? Following software/hardware products with integrated audio features, including Guitar Rig and Kore, NI is now getting into the absurdly crowded audio interface field with the Audio Kontrol 1. Fortunately, the inclusion of a dedicated, switchable headphone out, giant controller knob, and low-latency drivers are enough to escape my Audio Interface […]