OK, not really - but they did do an incredible interview with our friend Vlad Spears, the mad genius behind the Daevl.Plugs. You should go now and check out all the fun (including lots of youtube goodness!), as well as his take on the interview with the kind people of C74 over on 2Second(fuse)!
Archive for September, 2007
There are a million things I would like to say regarding what’s going on in Burma… but all of it pales. Please hold the Burmese in your thoughts as they try to stand against a truly repressive regime.
US Campaign for Burma - Burma Blog - Another - A Flickr Feed - niknayman
If you’re at all interested in the mind, read this!
and held it open for Clive to see. I started to sing one of the lines. He picked up the tenor lines and sang with me. A bar or so in, I suddenly realized what was happening. He could still read music. He was singing. His talk might be a jumble no one could understand but his brain was still capable of music. . . . When he got to the end of the line I hugged him and kissed him all over his face. . . . Clive could sit down at the organ and play with both hands on the keyboard, changing stops, and with his feet on the pedals, as if this were easier than riding a bicycle. Suddenly we had a place to be together, where we could create our own world away from the ward. Our friends came in to sing. I left a pile of music by the bed and visitors brought other pieces.
Now enhanced with traverse maps, photo galleries, links to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (one of my favorite sites ever) and 3d panoramas. Go NOW.
Cosmic Log : Google funds $30 million moon prize
The Google Lunar X Prize, announced today by the search-engine giant and the X Prize Foundation at the Wired NextFest in Los Angeles, ranks among the richest contests ever offered for technological innovation. It follows up on the $10 million Ansari X Prize for manned spaceflight, which was won nearly three years ago by the SpaceShipOne rocket plane.
Yup - today they announce Kontakt 3 and Guitar Rig 3.
Wow. Long overdue update… still trying to absorb this, but here are the salient points:
Logic Pro 8:
- Consolidates all of the old editor windows into a clean new Arrange window. Looks nice - wonder how screensets are implemented, if at all?
- Arrange features 2 channel strips - one for the selected track and another for the aux or output it’s currently routed to.
- Spotlight-enabled file browsers for Plugins, presets, Apple Loops or any file on your system
- Multiple takes grouped into folders for easy comping, similar to new GarageBand feature
- Apple Remote compatability! Didn’t see that coming, but it makes sense.
- Track setup simplified and streamlined - about time.
- Support for CAF format “allows you to record extended-length projects of up to 6 hours at 96kHz”
- Looks like some seriously enhanced editing features - transient selection and an auto-comping feature they call “Quick Swipe Comping.” Automagic xfades, I suppose.
- OMG - NO MORE XSKEY!
Mainstage
A live performance instrument/effects rack device. Lets you use the Logic effects and instruments along with AudioUnits as a performance device, outside of Logic.
Soundtrack Pro 2
Glad they’re finally bundling this. About time
New Instruments? Nope. Looking more closely, it appears that EXS24 has a new editor (thankfully!) and Sculpture and ES2 have True Surround output.
New Effects
Delay Designer - Surround capable multitap with filter, pan and pitch on each tap.
They mention new modeled circuits for the compressors… Hmmm. Lots of Surround Sound capability here too… Space Designer in surround will be incredible.
6 DVDS of Apple Loops, EXS instruments and presets
All of this for $499, or $199 to upgrade from Pro… Wow. I’m still absorbing.
My birthday is next week - if anyone wants to know what to get me and the iPhone is out of your price range, this is a real good start.
China Bans Reincarnation Without Government Permission - The Huffington Post
In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.”