http://www.digikorps.com Digital Music Info Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:41:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AP - Pink Floyd has begun legal action against music label EMI Group Ltd. over the way royalty payments are calculated in the digital era. http://www.digikorps.com/digital-music-news/pink-floyd-goes-to-court-in-royalty-row-with-emi-ap/ AFP - Record industry bosses hit back Tuesday at the myth that musicians no longer need them to become successful, insisting the Internet can help raise their profile but cannot make them stars. http://www.digikorps.com/digital-music-news/record-industry-hits-back-at-myth-of-go-it-alone-stars-afp/ Reuters - Pink Floyd on Tuesday launched legal action against record label EMI in a case that centres around royalty payments and how music is sold in the digital age. http://www.digikorps.com/digital-music-news/pink-floyd-battles-emi-in-online-royalties-case-reuters/ BusinessWeek - A first semester in business school is probably best summed up through some sort of interpretive dance.Refusing to be confined to words only, I am supplementing this entry with music.My B-school Playlist (downloadable here) is a song collection recapping my first semester. 1) Jordin Sparks, Battlefield Business school ... http://www.digikorps.com/digital-music-news/the-soundtrack-to-my-first-semester-businessweek/ Reuters - The sequel to Phantom of the Opera, one of the biggest musicals of all time, opens in London on Tuesday amid disquiet among die-hard phans who have been posting opinions online since previews began two weeks ago. http://www.digikorps.com/digital-music-news/phantom-of-opera-sequel-opens-amid-phan-disquiet-reuters/ Connecting stuff is one of the things musicians naturally do with gear. So, there’s really no reason that musical gear shouldn’t network as easily as Web servers. And yet a basic protocol, built largely on existing standards, meets with responses like this: “We’ll support OSC when there’s hardware out there.” “Name ... http://www.digikorps.com/create-digital-music/osc-kyma-ipad-and-beyond-your-networked-musical-future/ AP - Microchip Technology Inc. on Monday raised its purchase price for Silicon Storage Inc. a second time, competing with a private-equity firm for the maker of flash memory cards used in digital cameras and MP3 players. http://www.digikorps.com/digital-music-news/microchip-tech-raises-bid-for-silicon-storage-ap/ ScatterTunes‚ the company that is revolutionizing music through its innovative and interactive V-Album technology, has teamed up with Experience Hendrix, LLC to present five Jimi Hendrix V-Album releases –Valleys of Neptune, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland and First Rays Of The New Rising Sun– on March ... http://www.digikorps.com/digital-music-info/experience-hendrix-teams-up-with-scattertunes-for-five-exclusive-v-album-digital-releases-on-march-9-2010/ We already knew that one Next Big Thing for the Lemur – the specialized multimedia multi-touch controller – would be Ableton Live integration. Having teased that coming functionality, JazzMutant has now revealed the name (“Mu”), as well as a video showing what the features look like. What’s funny to me ... http://www.digikorps.com/create-digital-music/mu-lemur-ableton-live-integration-revealed-%e2%80%93-and-other-lemur-sequencers/ “It looks alien at first, it looks scary … [but] it’s like, here’s your paper; be creative.” “A tracker basically turns your computer an instrument.” -Dac Chartrand, Renoise, trying to explain Renoise to those who haven’t yet gotten religion Renoise 2.5 is here, for real – not a beta, a nice, ... http://www.digikorps.com/create-digital-music/renoise-25-is-here-making-your-mac-windows-or-linux-box-an-instrument/