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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,...
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,...
View ArticleThe vaporwave Windows 98 startup sound remix no one asked for
Time-stretched remixes of Microsoft startup sounds: they just never get old. But maybe we need this vaporwave Windows 98 in our lives. The source material in this case isn’t Brian Eno – that’s Windows...
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Azure Kinect promises new motion, sensing for art
Gamers’ interest may come and go, but artists are always exploring the potential of computer vision for expression. Microsoft this month has resurrected the Kinect, albeit in pricey, limited form....
View ArticleNotch just added killer NVIDIA Broadcast support with cool features like body...
So, speaking of NVIDIA goodies and why they're powerful for artists - Notch just added support for all those NVIDIA Broadcaster features covered here in the fall. It's like a motion capture studio and...
View ArticleRead this story of how the original Xbox startup sound was created
20 years ago next month, Microsoft's Xbox console debuted - and there's a story behind how it got its unique boot sound sequence. Call it this century's first chip music composition / sonic branding...
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