Tagged: hardware

Definitely not a professional thing, but no doubt fun. The idea behind the Pokketmixer is pretty straightforward, a simple plug and play solution that'll allow you and a friend to play DJ while on the go. No battery needed for this, just plug in two MP3 players and you got yourself a mobile DJ set up—minus pitch functions, of course. The idea came about during a car ride back in 2009 when peeps in the car had a dispute about who was going to plug their MP3-Player into the car stereo. If [...]

Most of you know edIT from The Glitch Mob , but did you know that he's also a pretty eloquent dude with his own show on Youtube now? 8 episodes in, he reviews and compares the Ableton Push with Native Instruments' highly popular Maschine.

Gotta say that Pioneer 's DJM-750 four-channel mixer looks pretty damn rich on a FX manipulation level. More features, more creativity…we're inspired to get our hands on one. The mixer features Boost Color FX and a built-in 24-bit/96 kHz USB sound card with 13 Beat FX—including the new Vinyl Brake—with a dedicated Level/Depth knob for tactile control of the wet/dry mix. The new Boost Color FX adds a second effect to the Sound Color FX in play, letting you control the parameters of both FX with just one knob. Available in classic black and sleek [...]

A todos nos gusta ver los gadgets que salen al mercado, otra cosa es poder seguir el ritmo de novedades... En el mercado de las controladoras, todos quieren llevarse la gran [....]

Sterosonic returns in late November

Jon Phonics laces Piff Gang affiliate ItsNate with a spacey and detached doozy that could as happily be the break in a dance track as hip hop. Is this "cloud rap"? Who cares, it works either way. Keep tabs on ItsNate as he gears up for the release of his NeverAverageTalkingExcellent mixtape.

Great set of photos from the Computer History Museum. So great that someone is preserving this incredible hardware. Required reading: Core Memory . And that watch! Amazing... via CHM: Artifacts Permalink | Comment On This Post | Tweet This Post | Add to del.icio.us | Stumbleupon Post tags: chm , computer history , computers

Arturia the creators of products like the Mini Brute , have brought a giant back to life. Oberheim's legendary SEM - Synthesizer Expander Module - is back for the first time as a high-end software emulation. Faithfully reproducing the warm Oberheim SEM tone, the Oberheim SEM V is also polyphonic, with a full array of innovative sonic features. The VST comes with an intuitive preset system that gives you access to over 100 stock sounds which can each be edited to create new sounds to suit your needs. These presets are [...]

Last week I flew out to Las Vegas for NAB. The show covers everything from post-production and computer hardware to lenses, cameras and lighting. It's hard to summarize everything that I saw because I was constantly in overload, so I decided to pick the one product that stuck out, the Blackmagic Digital Cinema Camera . The Digital Cinema Camera is a Raw ( Cinema DNG 12-Bit ), 2.5K ( 2432 x 1366 ) camera for 3,000.00 USD. There's a laundry list of features that the camera offers but mainly...it's very, very cheap and it's output at [...]

Como es sabido ya, Discoteca es una tienda de música y arte urbano con una selección bastante completa y bien curada en cuanto a material se refiere. Pero no solo queda ahí la labor de esta compañía como impulsores culturales, sino que también se han encargado desde hace ya un par de años de ofrecer talleres y cursos cortos destinados a desarrollar la creatividad de todo tipo de gente, en distintas áreas. En esta ocasión nos presentan tres nuevos talleres, de los cuales tenemos algo de info a continuación. Si quieren saber más respecto a ellos no duden de visitar [...]

After a weekend full of hacking with creative folks in Amsterdam,  Music Hack Day travels to Sydney, Australia next month! So what is it about? Music Hack Day is an event where music hackers and tech lovers gather around on the weekend and create cool music-related hacks of any kind : If you're into soldering transistors and IC chips to create weird next-level sound mangling device, then this event is for you. If you're into software-based sound manipulations or web applications that is also music related, then this event is also definitely for you. [...]

Shooting at 2000fps never gets old. A few months ago I had the opportunity to work with the Olympus iSpeed 3 from Jordy Klein . The iSpeed 3 is a high speed camera that can shoot up to 2000fps at 1280 x 720. It will actually shoot 1280 x 1024 if you want it to but most of us are looking for 16:9, 2:1 or 2:35:1 ratios. I won't go into too much technical detail, but I'll respond to any questions about the camera in the comments. It has an on-board CDU (Controller Display Unit) [...]

Da un lato le vendite degli album digitali che subiscono un incremento quasi pari al doppio, dall'altro un supporto ampiamente diffuso (i primi vennero commercializzati nel novembre del 1982 ) che però mantiene costi di produzione, distribuzione e stoccaggio troppo alti rispetto ai ricavi. La voce gira da qualche mese e non sembra essere priva di fondamento in assoluto: i CD potrebbero sparire dai negozi durante il 2012. Ovviamente il processo sarebbe graduale e verrebbero risparmiati cofanetti, edizioni deluxe e l'eterno mercato dei collezionisti, eppure Bernard Van Isacker, caporedattore del magazine Side-Line , sostiene che la [...]

From Make Magazine and Craig Smith : "About 1983, when I was fifteen, I dropped my dad’s red Bakelite soldering gun and broke the casing. Of course he was upset, so I did my best to “fix it.” So I took my original Star Wars Han Solo pistol and gutted it to hold the soldering gun components. I even ran the lightbulb up into the scope on top. The button on the handle worked well for the trigger switch. Ten years later, when the old house was sold, the gun wound up in my belongings. To this day, when an [...]

Besides approaching the most pressing issue of our time from a very interesting perspective, this video by Markus Kayser is absolutely stunning from a visual perspective. Kayser harnesses raw solar energy to produce glass objects using via a 3D printing process. Fascinating. It's visuals like these (and these ) that make me realize I need to spend a lot more time in the desert taking pictures. Solar Sinter Project via Robert Andersen

Will I be able to use this cable to plug my electric guitar into my Macbook Pro? http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ ct/B001DK1ZVO/ref=ord_cart_shr ?ie=UTF8&m=A27HGK7WE7XGNX I'm getting a Macbook Pro soon, and as iLife '11 has just been released, new amplifiers in GarageBand have also been released. I need an affordable adapter that will allow me to plug my electric guitar into my Mac, [...]

Technology Of The 2000s In general Broadband internet usage in the US increases drastically, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June 2000 to what one study predicts will be 62% by 2010 (although signs now show that broadband internet usage, continuing in its current trend, will be well over 90% by 2010 in the US). Music downloading [...]

Eccoci alla seconda puntata della nuova rubrica Fare Musica , che fornisce consigli e segnalazioni sia a quei lettori che vorrebbero cominciare a suonare uno strumento, sia a quelli già attivi musicalmente. Di volta in volta segnaleremo un manuale, un libro, un accessorio, uno strumento, un sito web... qualsiasi cosa possa facilitare il compito del musicista in erba e non. Vorremmo che questo fosse uno spazio più interattivo possibile: invitiamo quindi tutti i lettori interessati a partecipare attivamente inviandoci consigli, richieste, idee e quant'altro all'apposito indirizzo di posta faremusica@soundsblog.it . Oggi parliamo dell'accoppiata [...]

Recording interface Suggestion? Hey, I want to buy a good quality, cheap recording interface. Maybe around the $200-$300 range? I want to record voice, guitar (both acoustic and electric), keyboard and maybe drums. It also has to be relatively easy to use. Any suggestions? Must be Mac compatible. And I know Audacity seems to be the program [...]

I came across these great photos from Québec-based recording facility Studio Frisson while gear-lusting tonight and was stricken by their quality. Most studios don't do a very good job of tastefully photographing the facilities so it was refreshing to see these very well executed portraits of some of the most rare and prized recording equipment in the world. Some of the post on the photos is a little synthetic for my tastes, but still nice. Unfortunately the images are watermarked so you'll have to imagine what they'd look like clean. Speaking of watermarked photos, I've [...]