Lilypond: Free, Beautiful Music Notation Engraving for Anyone

Quick: you need to produce a music score. It needs to look really great. [...]

David Byrne on Collaboration, Process

David Byrne is, of course, a legendary name. But part of what I love about music is, for all the hero worship that sometimes accompanies music writing and fandom, there’s always something to learn from musicians whose work you enjoy – whether famous or obscure. David Byrne has been singularly open in talking about his work and [...]

When Ableton Met Serato: The Bridge Videos, Questions Answered

It’s time to size up the new DJ integration technology from Serato and Ableton. Photo ( CC-BY-SA ) Danielle Blue . There’s long been a massive gap in technique, capabilities, and workflow between DJ tools and performance, music production, and live electronics or live PA. [...]

NAMM 2010: Ableton and Serato – The Bridge

Avoiding clichéd straplines, it seems that the bridge takes Serato to Ableton, as well as the other way as well. The Bridge opens up the once closed path between the 2 applications and gets them talking to each other [...]

NAMM 2010: Rane Sixty Eight

One of the biggest calls in the DJ scene has been for Rane to step up to the club mixer plate and make a 4 channel mixer. Not only that, but make it 4 channels and Scratch Live friendly. Well one does depend on the other so now that Serato has hit V2 with multiple decks, Rane can now put out their 4 channel mixer Sixty Eight (words not numerals it seems). [...]