Posts Tagged ‘music’
The Best of NAMM: Beats, beats and more beats
If you know your oscillators from your saw waves then you’ll probably know that last week NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) took place in California at the Anaheim Convention Center. NAMM is the largest music product trade show in the world. It’s essentially CES for music, and this year was a record year for the organisation with 95,709 registered attendees and over 1,400 exhibitors. We’re only going to cover…
PURE music’s Spotify rivial
PURE has launched an online music service to rival the likes of Spotify.The cloud-based on-demand service will let users browse and listen to millions of tracks. They’ll be able to organise and play as many tracks and albums as they want on multiple devices, including PURE’s range of eight internet-connected digital radios PCs and Macs via the PURE Lounge internet radio and media portal (www.thelounge.com) and on smartphones running the…
QuNeo 3D Multi-Touch Controller
California-based tech developers Keith McMillen Instruments (KMI) announced recently that they’d be unleashing the next generation of music software and hardware controllers for electronic musicians, DJs, VJs and DIY hackers. It’s called the QuNeo 3D Multi-Touch Controller. Yes, you’ve heard this kind of thing before, we know. But this, tech-fiends, appears to be the ultimate hybrid of all those things. What’s the big deal then? Well err, QuNeo (pronounced kyoo-ne-oh,…
Canton wireless HiFi speakers – music to your ears?
A new range of plug and play speaker and accessories has just been launched by Germany’s largest loudspeaker manufacturer, Canton, which on paper look set to be high on any music lovers Christmas list. The three products are interchangeable with each other, and consist of the snappily titled your_DUO, your_STICK and your_DOCK… your_DUO – two active wireless loudspeakers that fully support 24bit HD audio technology, coming complete with a receiver…
House of Marley headphone range: Keep on Skanking
Even though he died before I was born, the music of Bob Marley has stood the test of time. In this day and age where we ascribe the moniker “legend” to anyone who can polish off a 15″ pizza, it’s pretty impressive that 30 years on he’s still synonymous with reggae music, is the ambassador for a tiny Caribbean island and has songs that are known by many people across…
AblePlanet’s Clear Harmony Sport Earphone SP1150 review
The loneliness of the long-distance runner is something I’m intimately familar with (And the middle distance runner. And the short distace runner. And when sprinting for the bus. Basically I’m very lonely). I not a big fan of running in the best of circumstances but I **hate** running when I’ve left my headphones behind. The endless monotony of the task in hand (especially on a treadmill) is borderline unbearable. But…
BlueAnt Embrace headphones review
I love a serious pair of headphones. I spend a lot of time working in audio production, editing radio shows and podcasts, creating music beds or jingles and also just listening to loud bass-heavy tunes. It will never cease to amaze me how Apple’s love letter to Dieter Rams, the iPhone 4 (and let’s face it the iPhone 4S as well) ships with such low quality headphones. I’m far from…
MAGIX Music Maker MX software: Sweet beats on the cheap
As a brand, MAGIX is famous for putting out music creation software that can be messed about with by beginners (for a laugh, this writer tried to make a electro-rap-rock crossover track to help the review, and it sucked) as well as those more advanced musicians. If you’ve always dreamed of making your own sounds, but have no freakin’ idea where to start, or don’t have access to a massive…
Rinse: Taking your iTunes library to the cleaners
All the recent talk of Apple TVs has been heightened by the relation that Steve Jobs had put “the guy in charge of iTunes” on the project. This has had many in the conventional media nodding but many others (your typical angry nerds on the internet) have been outraged. Why? Well a lack of social skills and perspective play a large part in it but one of the key problems…
iMaschine: A pocket MPC
It’s an MPC in your pocket! If that sentence doesn’t excite you then I’m guessing you’ve not had to lug one of Akai’s legendary beatmaking devices across town in a backpack. We’ve already mentioned Native Instruments’ impressive feat of cramming years of beat-making goodness into the now classic Maschine, then squeezing things even further into the recently released and positively dinky Maschine Mikro. Taking things that one step further however,…
