“Open” Kinect Tools Go Closed and Dead, Limiting Artist and Hacker Options;...
The narrative around Kinect and how hackers and artists has always been a little oversimplified. You may have heard something like this: thanks to a bounty, creative individuals “hacked” Microsoft’s...
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Putting the PC in MPC: The Next Akai Drum Machine, Numark DJ Products, on...
The dedicated drum machine is at a crossroads. Computer hybrids are simply capable of more than dedicated hardware – and that, in turn, has changed user expectations. You can go retro, as analog...
View ArticleWindows startup sounds transformed into amazing ambient music
Microsoft celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of Windows 95. But the best part of all of this may be this oddly eerie, beautiful set of ambient tunes, slowing down the best-known Windows...
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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,...
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....
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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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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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