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Microsoft Unveils Two Surface Tablets, But Questions Abound: Will They Hold a...
The iPad has proven a tablet can be a powerful tool for music. It’s also been mostly alone. Android-powered tablets have suffered from lackluster audio performance. Compound that with low popularity...
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Windows Touch and Music, Demonstrated with Surface and Reaktor
Big and healthy as the iOS ecosystem is, touch capabilities on Windows PCs means a whole, vast library of other tools becomes possible – without having to carry a laptop and a tablet. Having wandered...
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Microsoft Unveils Two Surface Tablets, But Questions Abound: Will They Hold a...
The iPad has proven a tablet can be a powerful tool for music. It’s also been mostly alone. Android-powered tablets have suffered from lackluster audio performance. Compound that with low popularity...
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Microsoft just gave us the touch laptop Apple won’t
Apple’s strategy is clear: make one line of things that are laptops (running OS X), make another line of things that are touch-based (running iOS). That strategy has served them – and musicians and...
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Bitwig Studio is a real touch DAW you can use today
We’ve seen apps made exclusively for touch devices like the iPad. And we’ve seen very basic touch support in desktop apps. But Bitwig Studio 1.3 is both. So, on the same day we find out about a proper...
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Qeve: Free Live Visual – VJ Software, Built in Pd
Qeve is a promising-looking, open-source visual performance tool built in visual patching environment Pure Data (Pd). It was built primarily on Ubuntu Linux but should also run with some adjustment on...
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Windows Touch and Music, Demonstrated with Surface and Reaktor
Big and healthy as the iOS ecosystem is, touch capabilities on Windows PCs means a whole, vast library of other tools becomes possible – without having to carry a laptop and a tablet. Having wandered...
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Microsoft just gave us the touch laptop Apple won’t
Apple’s strategy is clear: make one line of things that are laptops (running OS X), make another line of things that are touch-based (running iOS). That strategy has served them – and musicians and...
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Bitwig Studio is a real touch DAW you can use today
We’ve seen apps made exclusively for touch devices like the iPad. And we’ve seen very basic touch support in desktop apps. But Bitwig Studio 1.3 is both. So, on the same day we find out about a proper...
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Apple’s computer vision looks backward, as others look forward
It was really hard for me to watch Apple’s “Hello Again” event today. Understanding history is important – to a point. But Apple’s obsessive navel gazing in the Mac event today speaks volumes. This is...
View ArticleVisualists, here’s the info on the GPU in the new Macs, Surface Books
The audiovisual performance is very much alive as a medium. I’m just coming off two festivals full of inspiring, stunning live visuals (alongside installations and virtual reality artworks). (One was...
View ArticleHow expressive input, immersive 3D might make PCs cooler than Macs
“Pro.” “Creative.” They’re words that are repeated so often in computing it’s easy for some people to forget what they mean. By definition, though, if a “professional” is getting paid for their work,...
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Here’s how Bastl’s new $49 KLIK is syncing stuff up
Some tools are simple enough that they only really make sense in context. So we’ve gotten word that not only are Bastl Instruments introducing a new sync tool – they’ve also done some clever...
View ArticleBitwig Studio 2 is here, and it’s full of modulators and gadgets
Go go gadget DAW. That’s the feeling of Bitwig Studio 2, which is packed with new devices, a new approach to modulation, and hardware integration. Just a few of these on their own might not really be...
View ArticleApple announces that they’re not ready to announce new pro hardware
Apple today summoned a handful of tech reporters to a product lab, essentially to announce that … they were between announcements. Apple’s unusual PR experiment today was to mix mea culpa and product...
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Now, DJing with a giant touchscreen using djay, Surface Studio, Surface Dial
So, Algoriddim’s djay has been quietly morphing from “nifty entry-level Mac DJ tool” into “holy, crap, this is actually kind of better than the other DJ software.” And now, a ground-up rewrite for...
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Cakewalk SONAR DAW for Windows is back – and it’s now free
One of Windows’ most powerful, most popular, most native-optimized audio tools is not only back from the dead, it’s available for free. A version of SONAR Platinum will be available free, and finally,...
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Control all of Ableton from iOS, Android, Windows: touchAble Pro
Ableton Live: lug along hardware, or … be forced to use a mouse or touchpad. No more: touchAble Pro continues to unlock more and more of Live’s functionality, and now it’s available across touch...
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Bitwig Studio is a real touch DAW you can use today
We’ve seen apps made exclusively for touch devices like the iPad. And we’ve seen very basic touch support in desktop apps. But Bitwig Studio 1.3 is both. So, on the same day we find out about a proper...
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Apple’s computer vision looks backward, as others look forward
It was really hard for me to watch Apple’s “Hello Again” event today. Understanding history is important – to a point. But Apple’s obsessive navel gazing in the Mac event today speaks volumes. This is...
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