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Now, DJing with a giant touchscreen using djay, Surface Studio, Surface Dial
So, Algoriddim’s djay has been quietly morphing from “nifty entry-level Mac DJ tool” into “holy, crap, this is actually kind of better than the other DJ software.” And now, a ground-up rewrite for Windows 10 points to where music software might go on that platform – namely, touch and other novel input. I’ll review the […]
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Apple announces that they’re not ready to announce new pro hardware
Apple today summoned a handful of tech reporters to a product lab, essentially to announce that … they were between announcements. Apple’s unusual PR experiment today was to mix mea culpa and product teaser, in a drawn out explanation of why their hardware wasn’t shipping. The result of this messaging technique: journalists in the room […]
Peter Kirn - April 5, 2017
Motion Music tech
Bitwig Studio 2 is here, and it’s full of modulators and gadgets
Go go gadget DAW. That’s the feeling of Bitwig Studio 2, which is packed with new devices, a new approach to modulation, and hardware integration. Just a few of these on their own might not really be news, but Bitwig has a lot of them. Put them together, and you’ve got a whole lot of […]
How expressive input, immersive 3D might make PCs cooler than Macs
Peter Kirn - October 31, 2016
Motion Music tech
Microsoft just gave us the touch laptop Apple won’t
Peter Kirn - October 6, 2015
Music tech Stories
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