Ableton Live 7 & Ableton Live Suite are now available. I love Live’s minimalistic look and the way it turn half instrument half DAW but Live getting to version 7 very rapidly and it is questionable at the very least whether all the update have been worth of a whole new number and [...]
Technabob has the crazy cool guitar mod pictured above.
Earlier I mentioned the NIN DVD with tracks in mutli-track format to let anyone remix the songs. The was going to be a website to upload and share the tracks which would heave been cool. But big business intervened & Reznor rants. Read it here. The DVD is still available though [...]
Some videos of the Gibson Robot guitar.
Native Instrument have released:
KORE 2
“KORE 2 is the Super Instrument – a powerful software / hardware system with a versatile library of more than 500 production-ready sounds, with over 3,000 sound variations and over 400 FX KoreSounds. Find, play, and tweak sounds with unprecedented speed, power and ease.
KORE 2 features six integrated audio engines, a [...]
More great advice from Hometracked in The Rule of Mixing.
For you Reason uses Airtones has this excellent guide to using the power THOR.
From Mashable 25 Tools For The Independent Musician hiding amongst the ads.
ARS has this article about big artist defecting from major label to Radiohead style.The Patch Lab use guessed it has lots [...]
T-Pain in My Butt or Vocoder Madness
OK, it is inescapable now. T-Pain was on NRP. NPR! I had now idea how pervasive he was. The NPR story figures he is no something like 1/3 of the tracks on certain radio stations. In the NPR piece they refer to these stations as R & B. The has been [...]