March 20th, 2009
- - Artist Theo Kamecke has taken vintage circuit boards and transformed them to adorn furniture and sculpture that can be used in homes and galleries.
- - For less than $200, a graphic designer has created a garden automation system called GardenBot that uses open source hardware to monitor humidity, temperature and soil conditions. The data is then poured into charts so you can view the world as the plants see it.
- - If it works as advertised, a USB dongle could soon break the PlayStation 3's seemingly hackproof seal.
- - The Motorola Droid 2 looks a lot like the original Droid, and a teardown reveals that similarities go more than skin-deep. In fact, the internal layout and most of the Droid 2’s components are nearly identical to those of the original Droid, iFixit found.
- - Somewhere in Finland, Tom’s office colleagues decided to welcome him with the most delicious office prank this side of stuffing your monitor in a giant doughnut: A mouse and keyboard keys stuffed in jelly.
- - Using little more than a webcam and a laser, a young engineer has built a cheap 3-D scanner that dovetails perfectly with the Makerbot and other desktop fabricators. It could be used as part of a copying system that would allow hobbyists to duplicate solid objects at home.
- - A home-brewed graphing calculator uses entirely open source hardware to create the ultimate status symbol for geeks and quant jocks.
- - A Swedish researcher and entrepreneur has taken the first step toward becoming a cyborg by creating a wearable computer that can be slung across the body.
- - For the first time in our nation's history, our hopes and dreams and economic fate rest, not on a warrior or a politician or an astronaut, but on a team of repairmen. The effort to seal the ruptured oil well in the Gulf is the grandest and highest-profile repair job since the Apollo 13 duct-tape fix.
- - Here are five reasons why the relatively underpowered 8-bit microcontroller Arduino is more popular than another powerful open source chipset, the BeagleBoard.
Posted in Audio Recording, Business Opportunities, Electronics, Hardware, Multimedia, Music, Technology, digital audio music, home recording |
March 16th, 2009
Logic Audio News
- - Dear fellows,
my new iMac arrived.
Before my new install I have an important topic:
Is it duty to use an external drive for Sample...
- - Hi Luggers,
I have a good one for you: I require a way to remove a know loop from a mix using phase cancellation. Here is an example:
Take a...
- - hi everybody,
Logic Audio 6 crash when i try to save a song.
i checked all preferences in system folder, it's a problem i never seen before.
can...
- - I have the unpredictable behavior with snap to "wait for marker" which is a show stopper for me (back to Live :confused:)
I need to back out MS to...
- - On my last version of Logic (5.5:redface:) holding down shift and hitting the nudge button put the Logic Control (and Mackie Extender) into Nudge...
- - Hi,
Why does Logic beam note incorrectly in the score window? Say for example beat one is an 1/8th note followed by a 1/4 note and then another...
- - There is a way to control Mixer's faders using keyboard and set shortcuts to that?
After the update to 9.1 I've got 2 Logic lauchers, 9.0.0 and...
- - Hi everybody.
I'm really struggling with trying to get the "Magical 8bit Plug" plug in to work with Logic Express 9.1.1.
You can download the...
- - Hi All,
I'm suddenly getting 'System Overload. The audio engine was not able to process all required data in time. (-10011).
My system is:
OS...
- - I have a couple newbie questions about effects in Logic Express 9.
1. I recently emailed some of my tracks to a friend and they were all dry. ...
- - I'm a recent convert from Pro Tools. I find myself still returning to Pro Tools when I want to do some serious editing. When I like to remove clicks...
- - I'm currently working in L8 because it allows event selection both ways between piano roll and hyper edit. ( L9 is **cked here)
Yesterday and...
- - Getting the Most Out of The Browser
http://imsproav.com/wp/2010/08/advanced-apple-loops-tips-and-tricks-part-i/
Hope this is useful to the...
- - Hi everyone, are there any decent EXS pianos out there? thanks
- - It seems to be common knowledge that one should not mix or master using headphones, but what about for those of us who are bedroom recordists and...
Tags: emagic logic news, logic audio news, logic audio updates
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March 9th, 2009
- - This video entitled "Typography" by Ronnie Bruce is an animated version of a poem by Taylor Mali.
- - Arnold Schwarzenegger laments his inability to kill in the aria "To Kill Someone Again" from Terminator 2: The Opera.
- - A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see. This color footage was filmed even before movies had sound, and 13 years before a color feature film was released.
- - See how to turn spoken dialogue into searchable text either by synchronizing content with your Adobe Story script, or by using reference scripts that are optimized for your content. Accelerate editing by marking in and out points in the speech analysis text to speed production time.
- - Here is the master Alfred Hitchcock explaining what editing really is, and how does it effects the film.
- - Here is the timelapse dolly stage zero prototype. Dynamic Perception's mission is to provide low-cost and easy-to-use photographic motion control systems.
- - This video tutorial describes how you can build a DIY DSLR cage for about $50.00.
- - You're a hot writer! Already you can see your name on the front page of Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. But to make the magic work, you need an agent.
- - Being a filmmaker is like starting your own business and you need to think of it that way. The role and responsibilities of a filmmaker can be abstract and over glamorized for many starting out. They only see the artistic or technical aspects, but when it comes to the business side they don't have a clue.
- - Robert Rodriguez has a series of "Ten Minute Film School" segments on several of his DVD releases, showing aspiring filmmakers how to make good, profitable movies using inexpensive tactics.
Tags: film maker notes, independant film maker news
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March 9th, 2009
- - The PodCamp Events section has been updated. PodCamp Boston 3 and PodCamp EDU 2 have been added to the list.There are 2 definite and 4 possible PodCamps scheduled between now and the New Media Expo this August.PodCamp Chicago (in planning) - June 6-8, 2008 PodCamp Austin (in planning) - June 20-21, 2008PodCamp Ohio - June 28, 2008PodCamp Boston 3 - July 19-20, 2008
The PodCamp Events section has been updated. PodCamp Boston 3 and PodCamp EDU 2 have been added to the list.There are 2 definite and 4 possible PodCamps scheduled between now and the New Media Expo this August. PodCamp Chicago (in planning) - June 6-8, 2008 PodCamp Austin (in planning) - June 20-21, 2008PodCamp Ohio - June 28, 2008PodCamp Boston 3 - July 19-20, 2008
- - The events section of podcastFAQ.com has been extended to include lists of scheduled PodCamps, PodCamps in planning as well as other events such as the Podcasters Across Borders.
The events section of podcastFAQ.com has been extended to include lists of scheduled PodCamps, PodCamps in planning as well as other events such as the Podcasters Across Borders. PodCamp EventsOther Events Are we missing an event? Please contact us and let us know.
- - Welcome to PodcastFAQ, the place with answers to frequently asked podcasting questions.
Welcome to PodcastFAQ, the place with answers to frequently asked podcasting questions.podcastFAQ aims to contain the most up-to-date podcasting information for podcast creators, consumers and businesses. The information on this site is intended to be easy to find, to the point, and without clutter. RawVoice created this service to help the podcasting community grow and mature. RawVoice hopes visitors who utilize this resource will consider using other RawVoice products and services as well.More about RawVoice and the podcasting products they offer may be found at www.rawvoice.com.
Tags: learn about podcasts, podcast FAQ, understanding podcasts
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March 2nd, 2009
- - August 19, 2010 — Pro Tools HD 8.1cs1 updates for Pro Tools HD 8.1 users on Mac and Windows are available for download from the Pro Tools CS Updates...
Tags: digidesign technical updates, protools update
Posted in Audio Recording, Audio Video News, Aurora post production, Logic Audio, ProTools, Recording Studio Aurora, audio plugins, audio recording applications, home recording, virtual instruments |
January 23rd, 2009
- - Have you iPhone/iPod Touch users checked out Sonnox iPhone app yet? It’s an interesting and alternative move from Sonnox to keep connected to the users. Inside the app you find news from the Sonnox Twitter feed, quick tips, a monthly contest and interviews with Sonnox users. Pretty much the same as you would get from [...]
- - IBC 2010 in Amsterdam is 7 days away but Avid has already been clear about what we can expect to see from them.
Straight from the horse’s mouth…
The debut of ISIS 5000 and Pro Tools|HD Series Interfaces as well as the latest Avid Euphonix control surfaces running with support for some of the industry’s most [...]
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Native Instruments has finally released Komplete 7 and Komplete 7 Elements and with it introduced a total of five new effects and instruments.
The suggested retail prices are $559 / €499 for Komplete 7 and $119 / €99 for Komplete 7 Elements. Every copy also includes an NI Online Shop voucher worth $60 / €50. For [...]
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On October 1st Sonivox will release a new synthesizer called Vocalizer. If you think it’s another way to get those dreadfully overused vocal sounds we’re flooded with today then you’re right. It does seem to take it one step further though and when they get into sound design in the video above I’m actually a [...]
- - Sonnox has introduced two new bundles, Sonnox Post and Sonnox Broadcast.
The Sonnox Post bundle includes Sonnox Restore, which in itself includes DeClicker, DeBuzzer and DeNoiser. Other plug-ins found in Sonnox Post are Oxford EQ, Dynamics, Limiter, Reverb and SuprEsser.
Sonnox Post is available with a 30% introductory discount for: £1,526 ($2,570) TDM or £1,093 ($1,835) Native.
Sonnox [...]
- - Waves is offering you to buy the SSL4000 Collection, API Collection, Studio Series and/or Studio Collection at a 35% discount. Offer ends September 30th.
Waves
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EastWest wants you to testdrive all of their virtual instruments for $129, they will even supply you with the drive for it. Good thing they do, $129 for a 10-day demo wouldn’t exactly be the deal of the century.
Now on the other hand, it seems like an interesting deal. The hard drive comes loaded with [...]
- - IK Multimedia has realized that guitarists like to jam along to drum tracks and has released DrummerTracks, a new series of of drum backing tracks. “Unlike loops”, says IK Multimedia, “DrummerTracks are full song drum tracks, recorded in world class studios by sound powerhouse Sonic Reality”.
To me it looks like they’re most useful for jamming. [...]
- - I don’t know why people keep making new [microphones], because they aren’t accomplishing anything.
- Bob Paquette
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Tonehammer has decided to release Requiem in two different versions – Light and Pro. The Light version is a cheaper entrance to the world of Requiem, while the Pro version includes a lot of news to current users.
Requiem Pro is free to all Requiem users but is described as a major upgrade.
From the Tonehammer press [...]
Tags: audio recording coverage, audio recording news, audio recording news update
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January 23rd, 2009
- - When it comes to a program like After Effects, competing with Color Finesse 3 (that comes with AE CS5) can be tricky, but if there is one company out there determined to do it, it's Red Giant Software and their flagship color correction application Colorista.
- - We're down to the last major pieces of Adobe CS5 Web Premium, but last doesn't always mean least. OR DOES IT??? HMMMM??? With that as a spectacular teaser, let's spend our final installment looking at two holdovers from those halcyon Macromedia days of yore: Dreamweaver, the venerable web site building tool, and Fireworks, the oft-overlooked prototyping and vector/bitmap editing powerhouse.
- - Honesty time, dear readers: I don't think this is going to be an actual review. As Velveeta is to real cheese, there may be some review-like qualities to what follows, but considering the current all-out assault on Flash and everything it stands for, it may be beneficial to take a larger view of what Adobe has done in Web Premium CS5, namely the inclusion of not one, not two, but three separate tools for creating Flash content.
- - Adobe CS5 is finally shipping, so over the next few weeks we'll looking at the major programs which comprise the Web Premium package, starting off with the old stalwarts of the group. Now, it's somewhat hard to believe that 2010 marks Photoshop's 20th anniversary, with Illustrator having been around for a few years even before that, but here we are. Both products have certainly seen a lot of design trends and operating systems come and go in their time, but lest I take a long, nostalgic detour down software memory lane, let's simply get to the latest and greatest.
- - Eighteen months, seemingly like clockwork. A mere year-and-a-half after CS4 was released (which itself was a mere year-and-a-half after the release of CS3), Adobe has unveiled the CS5 lineup. Having had a chance to see and try the new versions for myself over the past several weeks, here are some general observations about the latest versions of Adobe's software uberbundles.
- - In this clip, host Chad Perkins discusses how to colorize black and white objects, footage, and effects. He covers hue, saturation, and lightness. He applies tint to the footage to remap white to a color and black to another color. He also works with tri-tone, which enables you to map the midtones; color balance to colorize an object that has a lot of gray in an image.
- - In this clip, host Chad Perkins looks at how to change the actual color in footage, also known as color grading in the film industry. Chad uses the color balance effect in the effects and presets panel in After Effects to change the feel of a clip by adjusting its colors. He discusses a bit about color theory, discussing the color values of video, red, green, and blue.
- - In this clip, host Chad Perkins looks at how to correct luminance, or brightness problems in your footage. He shows you the color corrections panel and discusses the auto levels and other auto effects, but also works in the levels effect, detailing the histogram which shows what is going on in your image, shadow areas, mid tones and highlights of the histogram.
- - In this clip, host Chad Perkins covers the task of slowing down and speeding up video. He details how to slow down video footage and work with the stretch values in a clip, which expands the duration of the clip, or shortens the duration of the clip. He also works in the Time/Stretch dialog box, and the Time Warp effect as well.
- - In this clip, host Chad Perkins details how to split a layer, cutting a video clip or any layer to different pieces, which is especially helpful when using B-roll footage.
Tags: adobe after effects video tutorials, after effects training, learn after effects
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