I just purchased a used Oberheim Matrix 1000 synth module, filled with Digitally controlled analog goodness. The Matrix 1000 is a 1U analog Synth made by analog keyboard synth maker Oberheim in the 1980s. The unit’s name comes from the fact that the synth has 1000 patches stored in 10 banks. The unit...

Original ideas are hard, very hard to come by. The creators of the monome were onto something big when they created their groundbreaking hardware controller. Why? because another Monome 64 clone controller for Ableton has been launched, this time coming from Novation. It is called Launchpad, and it is looks...

Any lover of electronic music has heard these comments before.. “yeah, those DJ guys can’t really play any instruments, it is all repetitive machine music, anyone can do that, etc etc etc” I’ve heard this comment many times, coming from rock music fans to professional band managers. A...

Hugo over at everydaylistening.com posted this interesting article praising music service website soundcloud.com. I also noticed more and more artists are using this service. Last night, while trying to play one of the artists sets featured in soundcloud i noticed my CPU cores were maxxing out at 99%. So,...

CIO magazine has published this interesting article about Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who’s left the company in 2004 and wrote a book about why Microsoft will fail. According to Mr. Curtis, Microsoft’s model of building software is destined to fail because it...