Album cover in Times Square
June 11, 2009 – 10:42 pm | One Comment

The creators of the documentary movie RiP: A Remix Manifesto are giving everyone a choice to paste themselves in a picture frame of Times Square that will be a part of the NYC movie screening …

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Mixing, Mastering Audio and the Loudness Wars
November 28, 2009 – 9:55 pm | 5 Comments
Mixing, Mastering Audio and the Loudness Wars

Ever since the first LPs and CDs were pressed, some record companies have been engaging is what is called the Loudness wars, where LPs and now CDs are being mastered to be louder and louder …

Oberheim Matrix 1000 software editors
November 28, 2009 – 5:35 pm | One Comment
Oberheim Matrix 1000 software editors

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 …

Eigenharp-alpha Controller
November 3, 2009 – 5:45 pm | One Comment
Eigenharp-alpha Controller

In our eternal quest to make electronic music instruments more expressive, and following in the tradition of the $230k, 40 string abomination, the “StringStation” here is the $7000 Eigenharp Alpha, a cross of what seems …

Novation Launchpad vs. Monome
November 1, 2009 – 12:03 am | 5 Comments
Novation Launchpad vs. Monome

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, …