Novation Releases Launchpad for Ableton Live 8+

Novation and Ableton have announced a new dedicated controller for Ableton Live called the Launchpad. Taking obvious design ques from the popular DIY Monome kits, the launch pad a 64 button interface designed to control Live’s session view.
Details from Ableton.com

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Presonus Studio One (v1.0) Review

Presonus is a company that for years has prided itself as being one of the best mid-level audio equipment manufacturers around. They have long been known for producing some quality audio interfaces and pre-amps and generally dominate that sector of the market along with …

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Presonus is a company that for years has prided itself as being one of the best mid-level audio equipment manufacturers around. They have long been known for producing some quality audio interfaces and pre-amps and generally dominate that sector of the market along with …

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Pioneer Announces CDJ-2000

The popularity of Pioneer’s CDJ-1000’s is hard to argue. They have pretty much become the CD-deck standard for DJ’ing as the Technic SL-1200’s have for vinyl. Pioneer has announced the next lineup of its popular CD decks with the CDJ-2000. This new deck …

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Update to Social Networking Websites

Over the past couple of weeks I have made some significant strides to increase my presence online by updating the social networking sites that you can find me on. I was surprised to find out how many are actually out on the web these days and many of them even have …

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Myna: Browser Based Recording Software & DAW

Aviary, the makers of popular online image and vector editing tools has announced a new product to its lineup called Myna. Myna is a multi-track recording software akin to Garageband or Reaper. In fact the transport windows even act the same was as Garageband. It …

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Novation Announces Nocturn 25 & 49 Keyboards

Novation has just announced keyboard versions of its popular Nocturn midi controller series. This move looks to be an attempt to reposition their product line as Remote SL series comes in higher end with the built in LCD screen and the Nocturn series coming in below …

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Are Homepages Still Needed?

Here a question I have been asking myself over the past couple of months. For years the artist homepage has been the home base, the go to spot for people to find the latest information on their favorite artists. I myself have spent countless hours slaving our homepage …

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Propellerheads Release Record

Propellerheads just a few months ago annouced Record, their new recording platform to compliment Reason. For the past month they have been hosting Beta testers and just this past week Record hass officially been released for sale.
Propellerhead Record is available to …

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Imageline Releases FL Studio 9

Reading in the pipeline that FL Studio 9 has just been released. On 09/09/09 no less
Key New Features and Changes
FL Studio:

Sidechaining – The FL Studio Mixer ‘Track Send’ now has an additional ‘Sidechain’ mode to support multiple-input mixer …

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DownloadSquad.com: Grooveshark Previews New Look, Features to VIPs

Streaming music site Grooveshark previews new look, features to VIPs.
Grooveshark is one of many streaming music services online for music. While Pandora in many respects is the leader in this category, they are largely conservative in their design choices. GrooveShark …

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DownloadSquad.com: Grooveshark Previews New Look, Features to VIPs

Streaming music site Grooveshark previews new look, features to VIPs.
Grooveshark is one of many streaming music services online for music. While Pandora in many respects is the leader in this category, they are largely conservative in their design choices. GrooveShark …

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Rekkard.org: Steinberg Cubase Essential 5

Steinberg Cubase Essential 5, the latest version of its personal music production system for Windows and Mac.
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Steinberg has announced Cubase Essential 5, the latest version of its personal music production system for Windows and Mac.
Providing an easy, …

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Personas | Metropathologies: See How the Web Sees You

Personas | Metropathologies | An installation by Aaron Zinman.
An amazing little web animation that scours the internet for your name and personas and categorizes them. Complete fun.

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Personas | Metropathologies: See How the Web Sees You

Personas | Metropathologies | An installation by Aaron Zinman.
An amazing little web animation that scours the internet for your name and personas and categorizes them. Complete fun.

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Top Five Music Communities to Distribute Your Music Online

As musicians we want to get our music out there to the audience right? Sure you do and there is no better way for a bedroom musician to get their music heard than to get it online. With all of the different sites out there though, what is the best way to get online and …

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The Macbook Aftermath

Alright, so we are now a good week into the post announcements for the new Macbook Pros and I suppose everyone has had some time to digest the changes to the hardware. With the new announcements there have been a couple of changes to the hardware that could potentially …

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Who is Leading Interface Design?

With the release of Record three weeks ago, there has been a lot of discussion floating around the net about its merit and place in the computer music world. While the merit of whether or not Record will succeed is certainly handled well in other conversations, there is …

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Who is Leading Interface Design?

With the release of Record three weeks ago, there has been a lot of discussion floating around the net about its merit and place in the computer music world. While the merit of whether or not Record will succeed is certainly handled well in other conversations, there is …

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Producer Panel – Their Thoughts on Music Going Mainstream

YouTube – Producer Panel: Sharam and BT answer question about what it means when our music goes mainstream.
BT is one of my favorite electronic artists. I don’t always agree with his musical decisions, but it is impossible to argue that he isn’t a super creative …

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