By ARTHUR LUBOW NYT TO investment bankers, it’s welcome news that Kraft Foods is offering more than $16 billion to acquire the British candymaker Cadbury: Maybe the frozen credit markets are thawing. As a chocolate fiend, bunkered in my kitchen alongside a simmering bain-marie, I find it an ominous prospect. Four years ago, another American food giant, Hershey, swallowed up a small chocolate...
Lexicon has launched the Omega Studio Desktop Recording Bundle, a recording package that combines Lexicon’s Omega Studio USB recording interface with Steinberg Cubase LE 4 multitrack audio and MIDI recording software, the Lexicon Pantheon VST reverb plug-in, and an AKG D 88 S lead vocal microphone and mic cable. Continue here: Lexicon Omega Studio Bundle
Lexicon offers yet another easy path of entry for aspiring producers and musicians who wish to take part in desktop audio recording. With the announcement the Omega Studio Bundle, Lexicon offers their 8-input Omega interface, Steinberg’s Cubase LE software, AKG’s D 88 S microphone, and more to create a one stop audio solution. The complete desktop [...] Related posts: Line 6 POD Studio...
As I said two weeks ago, I was not pleased at the lack of progress embodied in California's water bills. (Someone else's critique ) Here are a few more items on that: Senate President pro-tem Steinberg indulged in the most blatant hypocrisy and non-leadership I've seen in years, by inserting a $10 million earmark for his pet project (a community center). He was shamed into removing it. Dan Waters also...
Michael Steinberg submits: The Wall Street Journal’s “Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis” stirred my thoughts on the limits of America’s dependence on a knowledge-based economy. The article focused on engineering students at prestige universities wanting to actually create physical things. Students are migrating from the virtual world of software science to hobby-ing with...
The Mac has played a major part in the development of music technology over the years. And now, musicians using the OS X platform have access to a variety of applications that would scarcely have been imaginable when the first software sequencers appeared back in the late 1980s. Early versions of Logic and Cubase could only generate and process MIDI information – they had to be connected up...
Steinberg are offering the upgrade to Cubase Studio 5 at a special price for their 25th anniversary. The regular Cubase Studio 5 Upgrade price is now reduced by 33% to just 179! Offer is valid until January 31st, 2010. Hurry up and upgrade to Cubase Studio 5 today!
Waves Version 7 represents the latest step in the evolution of Waves. With improved compatibility across the board, enhanced DAW and OS support, and a host of new features, V7 will take your Waves experience to new heights. There’s never been a better time to update! Snow Leopard Support Windows 7 Support (32-bit) New VST3 Features in Cubase, Nuendo & Studio One Side-chain support Near-zero...
It appears there is still a possibility for new dams in the bill being worked on by state legislators, but we will hold our hurrahs until we see the signed product, given the adamant resistance to dams by the deep ecology inspired environmental movement which appears to be driving the legislative narrative of the controlling party. But, again, hope springs eternal that common sense prevails and the...
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein Hitotoki is an online literary project collecting stories of singular experiences tied to locations in cities worldwide. ( via ) Enjoy the sublime work of Italian artist Elena Rapa . When not sitting in his balmy backyard enjoying a fine cigar,...
A first-rate collection of virtual pianos makes up the third version of The Grand, consisting foremost of three recorded models based on highly acclaimed grand pianos: the Yamaha C7, the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial and the Steinway D. Alongside two additional virtual pianos with the distinctive character of the vintage Yamaha CP80 Electric Grand and the upright by Nordiska Pianofabriken. As a result,...
I have to say that I'm somewhat bemused by the people that are writing us asking about 64-bit versions of our products. It's like a healthy portion of our customer base suddenly kited work from Hans Zimmer and must (MUST) run 10 sixteen-instrument instances of Kontakt 3. One piece of advice: don't believe the hype. The audio differences between 32-bit and 64-bit DAWs and plugins are unmeasurable, never...
October 30, 2009, 0800-1045 (This is a temporary entry - there will be more description and perhaps more literature later....) Creating technology is far from easy - specifically, creating software involves a number tools and techniques that are crucial to overcome the fact that systems are complicated, abstract, and involves interdependencies with many other systems. To understand this we will hear...
Just watching the Kraftwerk show on BBC 4 and I was surprised to see how little gear they were using on stage. The last time I saw them, they appeared to have the entire contents of Der Klingklangstudio on stage. From the brief on-stage footage and a furtle on the Interweb it appears that their stage gear is, essentially, 4 laptops running Reason and Cubase, together with a couple of Doepfer midi...
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