News / Technology Reviews
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New Rubber Tiles could help with Soundproofing bass
Now Yang and his team have developed soundproof panels made of latex and plastic buttons, that will do the job (Applied Physics Letters, DOI: 10.1063/1.3299007). ... By stacking five membranes together, each tuned to a specific band, you can create a soundproof panel that works in the range from 70 to 550 hertz.Read more . . . → -
How to Drum on an MPC or similar pad controller
Read more . . . →How to do mpc pad finger drumming from Brandon Murphy on Vimeo.
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Lady GaGa Plays the GaGatar, electro-modern style
We’re not quite sure just what the heck Lady GaGa is playing here, but it looks like she’s got a keytar slash bass slash MPC GaGatar in the Haus. You can see Lady Gaga’s keytar thing in action in her video for Telephone & Dance in the Dark, below, unless it gets yanked by the YouTube police.Read more . . . → -
Why waste your money at a studio? LCD Soundsystem has the solution
Read more . . . →LCD Soudsystem have rented a mansion rather than a studio to record their latest music. This is the future of music, really awesome idea, create space! clip 1 from lcd soundsystem on Vimeo.
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D. Ramirez Gear Review: Episode 1 DSI Prophet 8
Read more . . . →A great UK House Producer, D. Ramirez reviews a piece of Dave Smith gear in his studio in this video. About the video: "He asked us if he could send us a load of videos of him fiddling about with sexy new kit - and so here we are. The first episode sees him get his hands on the new DSI Prophet 8 keyboard synth - especially interesting for those producers out there who have never seen an outboard synth working up close." DT-TV: D.Ramirez's Gear Review #1 from Ben Gomori on Vimeo.
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What the iPad means for music
Look at what has been happening with the JazzMutant Lemur as a malleable music controller and what has already been happening with iPhone music apps, and it’s clear that music developers are going to have fun with the Apple iPad. ... Apple iPad Features: 9.7″ Full capacitive multitouch screen .5″ thick 1 GHz Apple A4 processor 16GB-GB Flash storage Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR WiFi 802.11n Built-in speaker, microphone, 30-pin connectors Accelerometer Compass 10 hour battery life in use Runs all iPhone apps 3G wireless options, with a $30/month unlimited plan, with international options by the summer.Read more . . . → -
The History of the Boombox
The speakers in early boxes had extra-large magnets to push all that air around, and they were housed in heavy metal casing to deal with the vibrations from all the bass. ... “So these boxes were so heavy that some cats that would carry their boxes all the time, they would develop massive forearms and biceps.”Read more . . . → -
I cannot get enough King Unique "The XX & Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot — Silicone Shelter" these days
Read more . . . →As I wrote about recently, I cannot stop listening to this bootleg! It is totally one of the greatest productions going on through my head right now. It's just so raw . . . sounds like a live remix . . .it would be wicked to see musicians start to go in this style live. Doing mash up remixes via Ableton Live . . . the future of music is exciting! On a similar note I've been listening to a lot of "The XX" especially their "Florence + The Machine" remix!
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Fiducial Midi Controller for Ableton
Read more . . . →Cool Ableton Live triggering system! This is a quick demo of the Fiducial Midi Controller, a tangible controller built using ReacTIVision software with OSCulator to send midi signals to Ableton Live. via gabeshaughnessy: My DJ skills need some work, but you get the idea. One thing you can’t see in this video is the cards are color coded. They match the Ableton Tracks. My ableton live mapping is not very sophisticated. Each clip has a card that triggers it, and you can rotate each card too, effecting something different on each track. The drum track, for example, changes the note duration, or time, when you...
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Anatomy of a Remix – Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia
Read more . . . →Anatomy of a remix - Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia - coldplaysucks.com. I have added the synth parts and my own kick sound. This concludes my second day on the remix.