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Mac OS Lion 10.7 is Here; The Obligatory Take-Your-Time Post, with NI and...
King of the jungle, as seen at the British Museum. Photo (CC-BY-ND) wootang01/mckln (Uninteresting side note – I happened to be at this location yesterday.) It’s become something of a tradition here...
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Music Developer on Windows 8: A Leap Forward for Desktops; A Leap Backward...
Steven Sinofsky showing Windows 8 last year. Photo (CC-BY) BUILDWindows. There’s good news and bad news on Windows 8 for music making. If you’re using Windows on a conventional, Intel PC, running...
View Article64-bit Memory Still Not Present in Final Cut Studio
There’s been some chatter today about Final Cut Studio and “64-bit.” Now first, simply saying 64-bit is fairly meaningless. 64-bit applications can refer to 64-bit processing (as in computation) and...
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Inter-app Audio in iOS 7 + Audiobus? Think Big Plans
Apart from the text we copied yesterday, audio developers can’t say anything about the contents of audio APIs in Apple’s new iOS 7. It’s all under NDA. So, instead, since Apple is all about feelings...
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Elektron, Bridging Gap Between Synths, Drum Machines and Computers:...
The boys of Elektron, jamming out. The analog lineup at the booth was a big hit at Messe, but the news story was making that analog play nicely with your lappy. It’s a funny thing about this latest...
View ArticleElektron just added 12 new machines to the Analog Rytm
Hey, software drum machines aren’t the only ones who get new synthesized drums – now hardware owners can, too. If you had to explain the Elektron Analog Rytm drum machine to someone quickly, the answer...
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New Elektron Octatrack OS is here, and trig conditions are awesome
Elektron have shipped their Octatrack OS 1.30B. Sequencer trig conditions, powerful rules that determine how sequences play, are here. And they’re wicked. Normally, the way step sequencers work is,...
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This low-latency OS could change how music gear is made
You want the flexibility of PC software, but the performance of standalone gear? A new music OS is the latest effort to promise the best of both worlds. Sure, analog gear is enjoying a happy...
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Everything you might have missed in Apple’s latest announcements
There’s a giant expensive cheese grater Mac and display and new versions of all Apple’s platforms. But what’s going on with iTunes? iPadOS? And what else might matter to musicians and visual artists?...
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