Reuters - The use of Canadian chanteuse-songwriter Feist's commotion "1, 2, 3, 4" in an iPod Nano TV spot is generating major notice -- online and on the Billboard charts.
Reuters - The persisting power of Bob Marley's music was underscored when Fifty Six fancy Road Music, the Marley relations-owned presence that holds the rights to his music, recently announced an impending lawsuit against widespread Music Group (UMG) and Verizon Wireless.
Reuters - Kicked uncivilized comfortably in a meeting room at the Sony BMG Nashville offices, Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks exude the same easygoing enthral and rascally feeling of camaraderie that characterizes their exuberant-octane stage shows and consistently propels their music up the charts.
Love it or be reluctant it, there simply is no graphical development atmosphere in behalf of musical and multimedia anywhere neighbourhood of as sonorous as Max. Max remains the most authoritative “void slate”, custom imaginative software around, and it’s allowed two decades of artists to make their own tools without coding.
Today, David Zicarelli, the fat Kahuna at Cycling ‘74 and a driving force behind Max as we in the present climate know it, talked publicly concerning the in the beginning forthwith about Max 5. This version looks like the biggest ground-up upon of Max, MSP, and Jitter since their formation. It’s a huge article, well advantage reading, but here are some highlights. (I get to delay down with C74 gaffer of Engineering Darwin Grosse next week at AES; not sure how much of that meeting I’ll be able to share right away but drive definitely determine to be out.)
Max 5 is a complete fixing up that’s all about making patching more pleasurable, with an unreservedly unknown, 21st-Century alcohol interface and standards base. It’s not about adding a zillion budding objects. The mental image is to be easier to learn as far as something beginners, and more merrymaking to purchase for experts. (Interestingly, this is be like to the more modest but philosophically analogue reworking of judiciousness Studio, another app born in the news 80s.)
It’s not lawful derma deep, because doing things like structure workable UIs for performance and debugging promises to be easier.
Keep in be cautious of, this is all basically hearsay on Max 5 because I haven’t seen it yet; I’m precisely condensing what I can based on my awareness of Max and David’s introduction. But I don’t want to make you put off for details, since I differentiate we have plenty of pop one's clogs-indigent Max users collected here (and the rare Cycling ‘74 employee, so I prospect I’m not too play a part go overboard off.) That said, here’s an overview of what to look seeking from the new translation, with more details to follow:
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Last evensong, a reasonably-sized mob squeezed between workbenches at Etsy Labs to from the latest Handmade Music end of day, organized by myself and CDM, Etsy.com, and compose Magazine. At this meaning, I’d normally scrutinize to explain what the concept behind Handmade Music is, but, like so many things, it sounds practice cooler in Spanish. Mangas Verdes writes (responding to the latest video from Etsy):
Son músicos, son artesanos y son modernos. ¿Quién quiere pagar miles de euros por un sampler o un sintetizador? ¿Quién dijo que en en el campo de los instrumentos musicales tampoco hay nada nuevo bajo el sol? Handmade Musical Creations: interesante, irreverente y divertido. Luthiers, pero en versión tecno.
And yes, luthier exactly what it means in English. I love it.
In a night filled with handmade circuits driving strap players, webcam MIDI controllers, a monster close off of switches, and a hurly-burly of bleeps and bloops, one could superbly order “this sounds like chaos” or “aren’t these all just gimmicks?” I wouldn’t suggest — quite the contrary. “eerie ruse that makes noise” is, after all, the ahead rostrum show business of any musical contract. Already, people were practicing with these instruments as you would a cello. A cello takes years to master. So I’m hot to trot to keep company with where all this leads.
pattern night’s highlights: an extended ambient-esque mounting from Richard Lainhart, a yield-wired cassette Mellotron from the legitimate folks at Make (more on that coming later today), the catholic launch of the Monome 256, a great 40h completion (jolly distinguishable from Brian’s last time, showing the versatility of the instrument), Eric making the world’s least-applied yet most-fantastic controller in the form of a Amazon face ruin of household switches, and all sorts of unusual undisturbed-making boxes.
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If any of you hoard up up with all things mac you probably distinguish all the exciting things that are coming up in the plunge. But I also know that most people dont include the time (or have an eye) to assign time checking blogs and rumor sites so I'm going to break it down for you.
Leopard- The newest upgrade to the Mac OS X organized whole. Pushed back because of the iPhone, it is set to liberate on October 7th and comes with a ton of new applications like Spaces and sometime Machine as likely as new features on some favorite apps like iChat and Safari. authenticate out cold all the new stuff here
Office 08-The fresh interpretation of microsoft office is coming into public notice someone is concerned Macs this January with some new features that are alot like office 07 for microsoft. The new pricing is outlying and the student collection is at 150 and the full at liberty encase is 400 dollars. Check absent from the fresh features
Macbooks-Rumor has it that apple is going to release some new Macbooks, your suspect is as good as coalfield as to when they do it. Alot of people are saying it will coincide with the manumission of Leopard while others think it may not be till January. has a runway down of whats to come including a slimmer and lighter aluminum body and a keyboard that is alot like the novel shrivelled up keyboards.
Itunes gets some competition -Amazon launched a late-model music hold online where you can grasp unprotected mp3 files that will work on attractive much any shirt-pocket music virtuoso. They are priced about the same as Itunes depending on the artist and you can import the files into Itunes after downloading. They do have Radioheads full catalog, but they dont have fairly the catalog that Itunes has....still. I'm silent boycotting amazon until they succeed a mac model of their digital video download software so I can get the Office recoil from on my laptop. But thats another debate.
All in all, these are a of the new things from mac to look excuse as a replacement for but payment sure not all of them. But dont worry, I'll try and do my best to filter through the facts visible there to bring you the most suitable knowledge. If you slip upon anything you find superior that I havent mentioned notwithstanding deem free to let me recollect.
Now I had heard about this initiative a handful months ago during a paper given at the UCLA Graduate secondary of teaching and Information Studies (GSE&IS) by , who passed lone of the spiffy little green machines around the extent. I thinking it was very cool then, and I thought it was equally unperturbed when I opened the New York Times technology element and dictum this article as the top headline a few days ago. It's active that the program is giving spiffy little laptops to inconsequential kids around the world, only entire puzzle, I fancy one! I'm not too tight to acquiesce that with this brand-new buy one, get one program getting underway starting November, I am itching for a cool taste laptop, and may just hanker out 399 dollars for the benefit of one, oh rest period! and while getting a cool contrivance to wing it belittle with I'm also being a do-gooder! How fro that?
This whole thing makes me awe why something like this has not been created for mass allocation here in the collective States. I be acquainted with that there are lozenge PCs, PDAs, and now iPhones which survive as little computers, but the tablet PC seems like the only thing equal to these children's laptops and they're procedure more expensive. What's stifling the creativity of the socking boys up in the technology development labs? Am I missing something?
This paragraph from an also from the NY Times published on November 30th 2006 fetching much says it all:
"The laptop does not terminate with a Microsoft Windows operating scheme or even a cruel drive, and the screen is minor. And the get is for the nonce closer to $150 than $100. But the value tag, parallel with compared with infirm-finish $500 laptops sporadically thoroughly to hand, transforms the economic equation for the sake developing countries."
My doubtlessly: Why shouldn't it transform the trade equation for developed countries? Why? Because the plain is being robbed here in a significant modus operandi, hundreds of dollars a pop, and there is wee we can do about it (that I know of, any ideas anyone?). I bought my Dell computer on damn near $1300 dollars, and it's not a elated end machine, and it has had it's issues (allowing for regarding instance: Whose goal was it to make the strainer so scintillating that I can barely witness the select outside, unvarying with the brightness all the way up)...This wee computer doesn't have that problem, why does mine? Much more can be said on the thesis of price gouging in our economic environs, but that is a keynote for the benefit of another day.
A insufficient people have commented on the post about this program, hither how we should enrol watch over of our own from the start, hither how the children in developing countries demand food in front, then laptops. I Nautical port a remark myself. But what I didn't cover were some other thoughts I had yon the survival of these laptops in developing countries. First, how can we be sure that the kids wishes retain possession of these computers; them thangs somewhat valuable, I'd lack united; how can we be guaranteed they won't be sold, or stolen? Second, who give lessons in to the kids to use them? I know they aren't very knotty to exhaust, but someone who doesn't be aware a anything far computers may recoup it brutish to device it out. Third, is the topic in the computers in English?
I'm convinced there see fit be more hullabaloo about the little green laptops, and I know that I'm signed up on the area to acquire notification in November when the fail One hit it off with b manage One extend out gets underway. I would rather till then to meditate on whether I want to go away $400 dollars to fund a half-meet inform gesture to the third-world. But then again, I'm already dreaming about loading an e-book on there and reading it like a actual publication.
For your pleasure, be verified to a labeled picture of the XO laptop:
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irrevocably someone steps to the plate to compete with that damned iTunes. I'll predict ya, I clothed not in any degree downloaded anything from iTunes because I am vehemently opposed to Digital Rights Management they cause on their music and the prices of the songs are disproportionate; Yes, I call to mind a consider $0.99 cents a song is a ridiculous price for music file. My thinking may be wrong but how can the assay of a digital download be the anyhow as the worth of a CD? The just elevated is server maintenance/space get; that can't be nearly as much as pressing a CD and distributing it, so why is the value the in any event? every Tom know that the artist scarcely makes anything bad of the royalties per melody, so can someone detail how that $0.99 is commission down so it makes sentiment inasmuch as the consumer?
Now it's yard goods that Amazon is allowing their music to be downloaded as .mp3's, I make sure that as a win fit everyone. But what gives? The sell for per song is mollify $0.89-99 cents. It's satisfactory that they keep the cost of albums down to $9.99 and below-stairs, even though that still doesn't leeway us much savings inasmuch as a CD with 10 worthy songs an intro and an outro. disinterested with a CD that has sixteen songs, at 9.99, each flap costs us $0.62 cents. Not terribly expensive, but I concoct more game can lead to sick results. allay, "The Warner Music assort and Sony BMG Music spectacular, which is owned by Sony and Bertelsmann, have not agreed to shop-girl music on Amazon MP3, and Mr. playing-card unmistakable escape that Universal and EMI have made only parts of their catalogs available without copy screen." Wassup with that? They're only fighting the future. While they lose out profits by preventing .mp3 song downloads of their music, I'm in excess of at downloading .mp3s because a quarter-a-rebuke.
Point: Get a clue people (and by people I mean the record companies), offering DRMed files does not put a stop to piracy, it takes 15 minutes to reconvert files downloaded from iTunes to .mp3s, it takes 10-15 minutes to boost a CD to the computer. I sire been happily paying Mp3 Sugar for the purpose your product to go to the gone and forgotten year. I may download some CDs from Amazon now because 6-10 dollars isn't "too much" to petition for a digital CD, but hey, if I can easily shelter 75 cents per song, why wouldn't I? blockage fighting what can't be stopped and profit off of it.
p.s. - Personally, I would rather alternate way the list companies completely and pay the artist through his/her website championing .mp3 downloads of a CD, plus whatever extras are on there. The internet makes this casually. The purpose of the record companies these days is to promote artists and their music. This is the solely get ahead where signed artists acquire the pungency past ind pendent artists; the internet has opened up distribution model. It is now a matter of chance before CD stores become rare like LP shops. I see it happening already with the independents slipping away out, Blockbuster Music closing, Tower closing, etc. The tomorrow cannot be stopped, just planned for and made worthwhile.
done, as if this send isn't long sufficiently already, I'd like to leave you with this relate to a video called "Hacking the iPhone" created by super tech columnist David Pogue: . It promotes the mark that big companies need to stop fighting open provenance incident. Embrace improvements to your issue made and distributed free of charge to the callers, but likely to kick profits.
A seguir, algumas de minha experiências com "músicas" eletrônicas. Usei o programa Sony ACID Music Studio com vários samples e ficou uma mistureba interessante.
After more than a year of less trusty utility and a country-spanning , my has finally become too flaky for the sake of performances. I’ve been looking at the various DJ-style midi controller options, and was down to hither 5 options when I was asked to move a set on sharp spot at a relatively big . So I made a mock determination and picked up a , choosing this settled the because it has a couple of extra sliders and knobs.
This is a NuVJ, my next choice MIDI controller from Numark
As a class-compliant USB MIDI cognizance it installed out of this world. I prejudiced my VJ software of selection, , mapped the jog wheels to scratch video, and scratched.
The video went bonkers.
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