It's Jim… but not as we know him. Scientists at St Andrews University have used special computer software to show what Jim Morrison might have looked like at 65 years old.
Had he lived, the doors frontman would have been celebrating his 65th birthday today
AudioMulch is an interactive musician’s environment for computers running Microsoft Windows, used by great artists like Andrew Duke or Girl Talk . Bringing together the popular with what has up to now been considered experimental, AudioMulch merges the worlds of mainstream electronica and electroacoustic sound composition to create a fluid sonic environment only limited by the artist’s imagination.
While many of the processes featured within AudioMulch are not new to computer music programs, it is the software’s ability to carry out these traditionally "studio" or "non-real-time" signal processing techniques in real-time that emerges as its major asset. With AudioMulch, music that has for so long been limited to the pre & post-production practices of a studio can emerge in a new LIVE and interactive context.
Through the essentially unlimited (only by the power of the computer) combination of a network of synthesis and processing contraptions, AudioMulch allows the user to extend their current audio processing capabilities or create new music within their computer without additional expensive software or hardware systems.
If you are a Mixed in Key user, you might heard about Platinum Notes cos they both came from the same mastermind. This great software makes your tracks sound incredibly smooth. Designed by professional DJs and musicians, Platinum Notes improves your files and gives them warmth, perfect volume, and correct pitch. It removes distortion and clipped peaks.
You can sit back while Platinum Notes scans your entire music collection and generates perfect music files that will keep the dance floor bouncing. It makes and works with wavs and mp3′s both. Mixed in Key and Platinum Notes together are the winning combination for digital musicians, DJs.
This is a very useful list by Create Digital Music, not for musicians only.
Any computer – Mac, Windows, and Linux – can experience degraded audio
experience pretty fast if a background task starts stealing CPU or a
driver is misbehaving. In contrast, a fully-tweaked Windows machine,
equipped with a set of tools to diagnose potential problems, can be
rock-solid for audio performance. That’s an especially big deal for
those of us using computers for live music.
Everyone and their dog seems to be trying to get into the social Web, but Tonium, the folks who built the pricey but slick-looking Pacemaker mobile DJ player, have an interesting take. They’re combining mobile hardware, mixing and media management and software, and social site in one integrated service. It’s a bit like iTunes, Beatport, iPod, and Traktor had a love child. The idea is a three-pronged approach: there’s the portable DJ MP3 player we’ve seen before, for storing your music library and mixing sets on the fly, editor software that lets you fine-tune mixes, and a web community that lets you share mixes with other Pacemaker users. The editor syncs with the hardware, mixes from the hardware and the software can go online — you get the idea. If you wanna read/know more about the pacemaker.net visit the Create Digital Music and the pacemaker.net itself.
If you always wanted to have a Nintendo DS, but the games only were not enough motivation, here is something for you! The KORG DS-10 is a music-creation software for the Nintendo DS that combines the superior interface of the Nintendo DS and the design concept of the famous MS-10 synthesizer.
The sound sources in the KORG DS-10 come from KORG – one of the world’s top musical instrument producers – and no effort was spared in creating these ultra-high-quality sounds. The Nintendo DS’s dual-screen touch panel is used to the fullest to provide a feel and operability that is unsurpassed, and combined with the sensory input mode at the touch-control screen, this unit can be appreciated by the complete novice as well as the seasoned professional.
In addition to the two analog synth simulators and drum module, a 6-track/16-step sequencer enables precise control and provides a wide range of musical possibilities. Several units can be connected and played together through a wireless link, and this and other features make the Nintendo DS and KORG DS-10 almost limitless in their application – they can take you places that no single synthesizer can.
The KORG DS-10 will introduce “stylus music” to the world at the International Musikmesse Frankfurt (Germany).
