While of us working in small and modest music studios in our bedrooms and at home, are content to have our rack gear sitting on top of desks, in SKB cases and other boxes, some people with bigger studios have customized cabinets built to house their synth & music gear. Some people like to take things a...

I have read a few articles about how the iPad is going to be the next MIDI controller killer.. It goes like this.. one iPad is going to eventually replace many if not all of the following dedicated MIDI / OSC Controllers: Novation Launch Pad, Korg Kaossilator Pro, Yamaha Tenori on, Akai MPC-1000, Monome...

What would happen if someone decided to engineer a lovechild between a Korg Kaoss Pad and the Monome? You will get a Kaossonome, an open source hardware touch controller based on a modified ArduinomeSerial. According to the creator’s webpage, the new controller is “is fully Monome 256...

What is the best way to get your music heard, if you are an independent musician? Should you pay a music service to get your music reviewed? Should you just upload your music to Itunes or CDBaby and hope someone just buys it? Should you just tweet endlessly about how great your music is? No. (more about...