Ableton has an interesting teaser up on its website today: A new strategic partnership between Ableton and Cycling ’74 promises exciting developments on the horizon for digital media creators, producers, and performers. Ableton CEO and cofounder Gerhard Behles and Cycling ’74 CEO David Zicarelli are pleased to announce this unique alliance between the two dynamic […]

Adobe’s new audio application, compatible with Intel Macs and Windows PCs, has been formally announced today. CDM was one of the first sites to look in-depth at Soundbooth CS3 back in the fall, and we broke the story that the software would be available as a standalone. Now we have a little bit more in […]

I featured VJKungFu last week, taking a prod at Momo for not creating more articles. Well the prod worked: Momo has been demoing the NuVJ at apple stores around the US, and now brings some video tutorials to VJKungFu: NuVJ Crash Course and Crossfader Triggering with the NuVJ. [tags]nuvj, numark, vjkungfu, hardware, software, tutorials, podcasts, […]

When purchasing an audio mixer, DJs are quite literally spoilt for choice. Visualists are a little constrained though, with only a handful of companies making a couple of vision mixer models each. This situation is improving rapidly though, with companies such as Vixid getting in on the act with their upcoming VJX16-4, and DJ company […]

Ronald Stewart, creator of the mobile, Linux-powered Trinity DAW device, writes to tell us the prototype had its first public appearance at the recent Linux Audio Conference: We ran the device for 7 hours (3.5 hours battery/3.5 hours on wall power supply) with zero hangs and everything worked under various multiple applications running. USB device […]

New Yorkians, hope to see you tonight (Thursday) at the first Musicmakers @ Etsy meetup, hosted by Create Digital Music and MAKE Magazine at Etsy Labs. 7 pm – whenever. Informal, so bring any in-progress projects or just show up and drink Coke and gawk at other people. Directions. (It’s easy, right downtown, not off […]

Peter’s fantastic, historic and educational vintage tape looping and Dr Who posts made me think of the BBC and theremins (yes, I’m fully aware that there were no theremins used for the Dr Who theme, but the myth is too strong), and the person who best combines the BBC and theremins: Bill Bailey. If you’re […]

Onyx, the lovely open and extensible Flash-based live visualist tool, now runs on Mac as well as Windows. (Next stop, since it’s built in Flash: Linux.) And the latest build has some great new features: Snap to tempo, tempo-synced filters Build your own TempoFilters Mutable bitmap filters “Mix files” for saving multiple layers and filters […]