Post Thumbnail of Pixar Research Group Online Library
15 February 2010 3D, Animation, Technology

Recently I was trolling the ‘net and came across this tasty info:
Pixar, makers of some of the most memorable 3D movies, has a very informative Online Library to share animation techniques.

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3 February 2010 Featured, Music, OSX, Technology

PreSonus, makers of excellent audio hardware, jumped into the digital audio workstation (DAW) market the middle of  last year.
They took  a look at the market at large, and found most products are bloated and ridiculously complex in work-flow.  So they decided to work with German developers Wolfgang Kundrus and Matthias …

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2 February 2010 Featured, Music

It is once again a chilly month of February, and yet another edition of Fractal Forest. Only this year we have an occasion to celebrate! On this event, Ekoplex will be presenting his new album!
Join us in this special day of music and arts in a beautiful and exotic, never …

Post Thumbnail of SID music
1 February 2010 Featured, Music, Technology

Back in the day, 1982 to be exact, a company called Commodore released the 64 personal computer.  It could plug into a dedicated monitor or your TV.  You could load software by a cassette tape or hard disk.  It ruled the home computer market selling 17 million machines between ‘83 …

Post Thumbnail of Apple iPad
27 January 2010 Featured, OSX, Technology

After years of rumours, Apple announced today the Ipad tablet for release in 30+ days.
It is a half inch thick and a mere 1.5 pounds.  The screen is 9.7 inches (1024×768) and is a capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display.
Running on a 1ghz Apple A4 chip (remember the purchase of P.A. …

Post Thumbnail of Apple updates - Jan 19, 2010
19 January 2010 Featured, OSX, Technology

Apple released a few interesting things today:
- Security Update 2010-001 (found on System Update)
- Bootcamp 3.1 update – finally.  Native Win7 support!  My tests thus far show the trackpad to be less jerky, it seems to handle the system fans better.  I will push it with a DAW to really see …

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17 January 2010 Misc

The Wilkinson Residence in Portland Oregon calls to me.  Down with square walls and rectangular doorways!  I absolutely love this particular design as it fits well in the environment and lots of bookshelves.   We need more of these and less of the evil rabbit hutches they call condos …

Post Thumbnail of Spectrasonics goes 64-bit cross platform
17 January 2010 Music, OSX, Technology

Now that Apple has released Logic 9.1 with 64-bit plugin support, we’re starting to see announcements.  Spectrasonics released word of 1.2 versions of Omnisphere and Trillian which offer native 64-bit support as well as new 32-bit Sample File Server option which allows more memory access due to existing platform limitations.
It …

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15 January 2010 Featured, Music, Technology

Access in recent years have turned around and showing a lot of developments for owners of the Virus TI series of synthesizers.  Some would consider a hardware synth to be expensive and many are not upgradable.  Not so with the Virus TI’s… Access has announced for 1Q 2010 availability a …

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15 January 2010 Music, Technology

Looks like Akai has announced release of a smaller stepchild version of the APC40 called, the APC20.  Likely they wished to more directly compete against the Novation Launchpad and the Livid Instruments Block.
Also announced at Winter NAMM was an iPhone app called Synth Station, the iPK25 Keyboard which you dock …

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