Electric guitars with onboard USB and MIDI? How about guitars with built-in pressure sensors, light sensors, and faders for something a little different? Doug Theriault sends in his latest homemade instrument creations, a USB guitar and MIDI guitar with some unusual features: TSG1, TSG2 Project Page … the Sensor Guitar (TSG1) [is] equipped with two […]

I’m sure some CDMotion readers must be wondering if I actually own a DV camera considering the stop-motion and still camera focus these last couple of weeks. Rest assured I both own and even on occasion wield a DV cam, however my DSLR has held me in thrall with its beautiful images, shallow depth of […]

I’m sure some CDMotion readers must be wondering if I actually own a DV camera considering the stop-motion and still camera focus these last couple of weeks. Rest assured I both own and even on occasion wield a DV cam, however my DSLR has held me in thrall with its beautiful images, shallow depth of […]

Flash goes better with After Effects; via Lynda.com tutorial. Come on, you’ve got that Production Suite on your hard drive; why not make it earn its keep? The next version of Adobe’s software suite is sure to feature new integration with Flash after Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait […]

I love Roland dearly. But the $4,000 Roland E-80 keyboard looks like it might actually be capable of destroying the planet Alderaan. There’s a breed of mega-arranger-keyboard-organ-appliances that seems spawned on some alien planet, on which giant cyborgs with eight arms play Sunday church music with fourteen-way splits and layers of thin preset sounds. These […]

Automapping, the ability to automatically assign controls on hardware to software parameters, is a big draw for a lot of users, and a new upgrade to the ReMOTE SL keyboard brings this feature to Pro Tools for the first time — while smoothing out the rough edges in support for other software. The ReMOTE SL […]

Drummer John Emrich loves the Zendrum, the unique, handcrafted MIDI drum controller featured on CDM previously. Here’s what he has to say about it: “Without a doubt, this is the most dynamic MIDI unit available for percussionists. You’re not going to find another trigger unit for drummers that will give you this much control over […]

Okay, circuit benders: a key part in warping electronics to new and strange places has vanished from the face of the Earth. Reed Ghazala, father of bending and the field’s best-known personality, writes CDM with the news as he passed it on to experimental/bending music forum oddmusic. That’s the bad news; the good news is […]

The Processing gang have just released a new version. Syntax changes and bugfix details are here, and there’s a new thread on tutorials and resources in the Processing forum. Download link! Or of course you could just start Processing, it will tell you all about the download page. via Random Etc

Adobe’s Bob Donlon has a great step-by-step tutorial on putting together 3D Pan & Scans in After Effects. This is a great weapon to have in your visual arsenal. Generally clients seem to be getting better at providing reasonable amounts of raw materials and resources for visual gigs, but occasionally you’ll get someone who emails […]