Genesis Networks Uses Digigram Platform for World Cup, Wimbledon Championships

Genesis Networks in Grenoble, France, which provides globally managed fiber-optic network services to broadcasters and cable networks worldwide, recently teamed up with digital audio solutions specialist, Digigram, to provide broadcast services to France’s Canal Plus pay-television channel for its coverage of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in the [...]

Sweetwater GearFest 2010 Draws Record Crowd

Leading retailer Sweetwater Sound reports that its GearFest 2010 attracted a record-breaking crowd comprising thousands of musicians, engineers and producers from all over the world. Held on June 25 and 26, 2010, at Sweetwater’s campus at Fort Wayne, Ind., GearFest is said to be the nation’s largest end user-oriented music and pro audio [...]

Reason, Record Updates Revealed Today; Big News – Reason Gets Sound Sampling

In case you haven’t seen already, Propellerhead is slowly doling out new feature information on its website for Record 1.5 and Reason 5 . So far, they’ve announced pitch correction and vocal synthesis in Record (because we really don’t have enough AutoTune-style vocals in the world, apparently), multiple loop support in REX, and new block-style arrangement (a bit reminiscent of Cubase’s implementation to [...]

2010 MIPA Awards

For the 11th time, more than 100 magazines from all over the world—including Mix, Electronic Musician and Remix—came together to vote the best audio and musical instrument products of [...]

MPSE Announces Winners of 2010 Golden Reel Awards

The 57th annual Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards were held Saturday, February 20, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, to celebrate the success of leading proponents of the art of sound editing, music editing and sound design from around the world. The 2010 MPSE Filmmaker Recipient was film director Steven Spielberg, while the 2010 MPSE Career Achievement Recipient was Larry Singer, [...]

Participate: One Button Game Objects, Handmade Music in NYC, Amsterdam, SF

It’s a call for one-button works. [...]

Free RFID Reader Connects Real World Objects to Music, Teaches OSC in Pd

RFID tags may have negative privacy associations when they’re used without someone’s knowledge. [...]

Motion Picture Sound Editors Announce 2010 Golden Reel Awards Nominees

Nominees for this year’s annual Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards include leading proponents of the art of sound editing, music editing and sound design from around the world. Winners in various categories of Feature Films, Television and Other will be given their 2010 Golden Reels during a gala awards ceremony to be held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel on Saturday, February [...]

NAMM 2010: Numark X7

Numark’s recent forays into mixers haven’t set the world on fire. [...]

Carbon neutral NAMM coverage

While some companies might like to fly in people from all over the world, thus killing the planet just that little bit more and probably some kittens too, skratchworx is far more environmentally aware. So this old man will thankfully be staying warm and remaining in the office while the carbon footprint friendly duo of (L to R) Phillip Le and Peter Mapanao will be doing the reporting honours once again – and only driving in from San Diego as [...]