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77 Recording in Evansville, Ind., Installs 48-Channel API 1608

Jan

2013

API in Jessup, Md., reports that 77 Recording in Evansville, Ind., has installed a 48-channel API 1608 analog console with 32-channels of automation. 77 Recording has grown in less than 10 years into a 3,500 square-foot facility located about two hours north of Nashville. More here: 77 Recording in Evansville, Ind., Installs 48-Channel API 1608

Recording School in Mexico City Purchases API 1608

Jan

2013

The G Martell College of Music Technology and Audio in Mexico City has purchased and installed a 48-channel 1608 console with APIâ€™s proprietary P-Mix automation. Original post: Recording School in Mexico City Purchases API 1608

Full Sail University to Install API Vision Console in Studio B

Dec

2012

Full Sail has announced it will replace the existing console in Studio B with a 64-channel API Vision analog surround sound console. Continued here: Full Sail University to Install API Vision Console in Studio B

Make Renoise into an MPC-Style Groovebox: Pking, padKONTROL

Jul

2012

Instagrammed padKONTROL ( CC-BY ) Daz Heath . Music production tools like Renoise have a tremendous amount of power. But what if you could program grooves with the kind of touch-a-pad workflow offered by something like the MPC? Continued here: Make Renoise into an MPC-Style Groovebox: Pking, padKONTROL

Android, High-Performance Audio in 4.1, and What it Means – Plus libpd Goodness, Today

Jul

2012

It’s called “Jelly Bean.” But a 4.1 version of Android might also be called, at last, a version of Android musicians will find tasty. (Those last versions were a bit more of the disgusting variety from Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans; this is a bit more Jelly Belly.) Photo ( CC-BY-SA ) Hermann Kaser . ...

Touch iOS Music in a New Way: Hands-on with Cantor for Users, Inside Details for Developers

Jun

2012

Don’t fret. An iPad can open up new ways of touching musical ideas. Read this article: Touch iOS Music in a New Way: Hands-on with Cantor for Users, Inside Details for Developers

SoundCloud Provides First Look at a New Interface [Gallery]

May

2012

For all you hear about the primacy of visual culture, you might not expect a Web service exclusively focused on sound to be a big hit. SoundCloud, however, has seen meteoric growth, hitting 10 million users in January Read the rest here: SoundCloud Provides First Look at a New Interface [Gallery]

Pd, Everywhere: Free libpd Gets a New Site, New Book on Making Mobile Music Apps

Mar

2012

Pure Data (Pd) is already a free, convenient tool for making synths, effects, and sequencers and other musical generators. But imagine stripping away all the things that tie it to a platform – UI, specific hardware support – so it will run just about anywhere, on anything, in any context. That’s what libpd, a free, ...

Music from Code: In Simple Text, Live Coding Steve Reich-ian Rhythms with Free Overtone

Oct

2011

Writing code for music may still seem a remote notion to the vast majority of even geekier digital musicians, but as exemplified by the language Overtone, it looks very different than coding once did. Whereas sound code was once a type-and-render affair, new coding environments focus on live coding. Original post: Music from Code: In ...

Face Sequencers, Sonic Databases, Automatic Dub Remixes, More Montreal Music Hackday Hacks

Oct

2011

Hard at work at Music Hack Day Montréal. Read the original post: Face Sequencers, Sonic Databases, Automatic Dub Remixes, More Montreal Music Hackday Hacks