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Eigenlabs unveil Star Wars-style instrum...

Posted by craig hitchings in Music Making on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments

It may resemble something from a galaxy far, far away, but the brand new performance instrument from Eigenlabs is already creating enough of a stir to be popping up on mainstream sites like the Engadget. In fact, after spending eight years researching and developing, the Devon-based company...

Posted by Tim Cant in Music Making on 08 24th, 2009 | No Comments

This superb video was made using a variety of iPhone software to create tracks which were then combined in video editing software Final Cut – more details from the creator’s blog here. Our best guess is that it took roughly a bazillion hours to make – check it out!

Posted by Tim Cant in Music Making on 08 21st, 2009 | No Comments

It’s been described as the music industry’s equivalent of a Turner Prize, and it’s back! The PRS Foundation for Music is once again providing £50,000 to encourage the creation of an imaginative and original piece of new British music. Here's the lowdown

Entire album made on iPhone...

Posted by Ronan Macdonald in Music Making on 08 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

We've had single tracks and even a music video made using nothing but the iPhone, but New York outfit Nuclear O'Reilly claim to be the first band to make a whole album using Apple's touchscreen marvel. The work is titled Phoning It In, and the duo's App of choice? Intua's amazing Beatmaker. See/hear...

Microsoft Surface: VectorForm DJ...

Posted by Qmuso in Music Making on 07 13th, 2009 | No Comments

The shape of the future? Or just a gimmick?

Posted by Tim Cant in Music Making on 05 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Samplepack website SoundsOnDemand (or “SOD” as they curiously prefer to be known) has recently reached a whopping 500 titles in their library, and are celebrating by making available a free “Jubilee” samplepack containing WAV and Kontakt format sounds....Read More

Propellerhead Record announced!...

Posted by Ronan Macdonald in Music Making on 05 11th, 2009 | No Comments

We knew something big was coming from Sweden, and Propellerhead certainly haven't disappointed us with the announcement of Record, a brand new DAW aimed at musicians and bands looking for an intuitive way to turn their ideas into reality, rather than hardcore...Read More

Posted by Lee du-Caine in Music Making on 04 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Novation launched their SL Mk II series of updated controllers at the recent Frankfurt Musikmesse show, describing them as the "biggest music-making product" of the entire event. Luckily, we haven't had long to wait to get our hands on one of the new...Read More

Ableton Live 8 misuse tutorials...

Posted by Ronan Macdonald in Music Making on 04 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Our good buddies at the excellent Create Digital Music have posted a trio of video tutorials aimed at showing Live 8 users how to deploy various elements of the software in ways that could be considered 'not obvious'. The first two see Ableton's Denis...Read More

Ableton Live 8 hits the road!...

Posted by Tim Cant in Music Making on 04 21st, 2009 | No Comments

If you're Live-curious and want to get a feel for the lifestyle before you fully commit yourself, check out Ableton's Live 8 tour 2009 where you'll get the chance to try out the software, get your hands on some free Loopmasters samples discs, and even win a...Read More

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