One of the latest and most visually appealing music controllers is the Tenori-On, a tablet-like live sequencing device that musicians can use to create both musical and visual patterns via its illuminated grid interface. American artist Norman Fairbanks has now released what is billed as the first album composed entirely with the Tenori-On…
Read the rest of this entry »
Everybody has heard of musical scales, and most people have some idea of what they are. For many, they are only remembered as one of the pointless homework exercises inflicted upon them in the enforced piano lessons of their childhood. But what exactly is a music scale, and how do we go about creating them?
Free samples have always been a popular retail marketing ploy, but Vember Audio are now taking that tactic into the software sound creation arena. Vember are the makers of such sonic manipulation engines as the Surge synthesiser and the Shortcircuit sampler, which have tended to cater to sound designers who want to create their own sounds from scratch rather than providing banks and banks of factory preset sounds. The good news is that the Shortcircuit sampler has now been released to the general public – for free!
New Music Strategies is a site well worth checking out if you’re involved with the music industry in any capacity; the structure and implementation of Dubber’s blog is concise and subtly monetised, and his articles are generally insightful and often thought-provoking – no more so than his recent article which accuses Gerd Leonhard of ‘serial hubris’…
Choosing the right laptop is critical if you plan to use it as the driver of your live music sets. Unfortunately, musicians are not the primary market laptop manufacturers have in mind when designing a new unit, so it’s vital to know what components have the most impact on audio performance…
Read the rest of this entry »
The Thummer is a new instrument/controller that was developed in Austin, Texas to address the needs of learning styles that may not have been adequately catered for by previously existing devices…
Bob Dylan fans who have fewer than five of the previous Dylan compilation albums may be pleased to hear that another Greatest Songs release is imminent. This time, however, there is also a website that allows you to send customised messages via the classic “Subterranean Homesick Blues” video…
Read the rest of this entry »
In one sense, last week’s online release of In Rainbows was nothing new – after all, thousands of artists have released albums for download before this. The essential difference, however, is in the magnitude of money and hype involved – Radiohead are a major act previously signed to a major label and have sold millions of records worldwide. Even if sales of the latest album are only a tiny fraction of previous releases, they stand to make far more money from this one – simply because they control the entire production and distribution process. So what are the implications for the music industry in the face of this breakaway?
Read the rest of this entry »
Herbie Hancock is a Jazz legend, a progenitor of hip-hop and one of the driving forces behind the development of electronic music across a whole range of genres. He has always embraced technology as a tool for self-expression, but what is his secret to such prolific creativity over the past few decades?
Read the rest of this entry »
For some people, having a virtually infinite rack of software units with which to create an even more infinite (?) array of interconnections and arcane routing that emits sounds the likes of which the universe has never witnessed would be enough to keep them busy for decades. Not Propellerhead Software though… they’ve just released Reason 4, which throws a few new devices into the rack for good measure…
Read the rest of this entry »
ableton live acoustic treatment ambient audio mastering audio production brain music canabrism compression computer music controllers copyright creativity digital music free downloading music game music generative music headphones home studio keyboard notes loudness mastering mixing mp3 music distribution music industry music laptop music production music promotion music sales music streaming music technology music video online music physics of sound pro tools reason reason 4 remix rpm challenge sample library sampling timestretching upgrade reason vinyl xp music
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
Home | Canabrism | Guides | All Music Technology Posts | XML Sitemap
