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Freeverse updates Sound Studio to 3.5.7

Freeverse has announced the release of Sound Studio 3.5.7, an update to the popular sound recording and editing tool for Mac. This new version prov...

New Pro Audio Training Video: Digital Producer 2 - Know It All!

Digital Music Doctor announces the release of a new video training course, Digital Producer - Know It All! This course contains 4 hours of interact...

Blue Cat Audio updates Blue Cat's Stereo Phaser Plugin

Blue Cat Audio has updated Blue Cat's Stereo Phaser, their stereo analog-style phasing plugin in DirectX and VST formats for Windows. This new ...

Sony announces the launch of XROSS FADE

Sony has introduced a DJ-style shelf system with a dual dock for iPod devices called XROSS FADE. Perfect for mixing and playing music from iPod pla...

PowerFX releases Tribal Tech House

Add some digital voodoo to your tracks with the latest PowerFX sample library Tribal Tech House. This exciting collection of beats, basses, synths...

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Features

Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Nodal v1.0

Nodal is a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This metho...

Tom's Music Thing - Cute hardware upgrade for BC16 synth

Here's a tiny patchable inverter accessory for the Chimera BC16 mini synth "a little PCB (postage stamp) with four wires hanging out of it (the...

Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Livid Looper v1.0

Livid Looper is an audio looper/player.

Features:

- Up to six files loaded in each looper for quick recall and playback
- Loop...

Tom's Music Thing - KB Covers Logic keyboard shortcuts overlay

Logic Studio is a huge, complicated beast of an application. It has 389 preset keyboard commands/shortcuts, with another 587 commands waiting to be...

Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Lemonstrum v1.0

Lemonstrum Acoustic Guitar Strummer lets you strum your keyboard like a real acoustic guitar. The strumming engine plays chords in the right finger...

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» Tom's Music Thing - Audio Damage Automaton: 'Game of Life' vs glitch 08.08.2008

» Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Tune It v1.3 01.08.2008

» Tom's Music Thing - Orion Galaxy Omega 8 01.08.2008

» Weekly Editor's Choice Award - eDrum MIDI Mapper v1.2 25.07.2008

» Tom's Music Thing - Isn't this the sweetest cassette tape you've ever seen? 25.07.2008

» Music Software Popularity Index - 2008 Q2 23.07.2008

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Music Blog

Oldest known recordings of computer generated music unveiled

A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer genera...

The 100 most cliched cliches in pop song titles

Andy Baio has been writing about The Whitburn Project - a vast spreadsheet with data about the 37,000 songs that have been hits on the Billboard Ch...