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Review: Sensel's Morph is the perfect trackpad controller for musicians and other creatives
Sensel's Morph is a pressure-sensitive touch controller that's easier to use than it is to describe. Unlike other touchpads, it's infinitely customizable and comes with several overlays that transform it into a MIDI controller for music, a gamepad, a video editing tool, or whatever ...
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Sweetwater Studios began in a van, now it's the heart of a $725M enterprise
Some of the richest companies have the humblest beginnings. Google and Facebook started in dorms, Microsoft was launched from a garage, and Sweetwater Sound began as a studio in a van. The difference here is that Sweetwater's never laid off an employee, sold out to shareholders, or ...
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A peek at legendary architect John Storyk's design process
John Storyk, the founder of WSDG, an acoustic consulting and A/V integration firm, is a legend in the music world. He's a world-class architect and acoustic designer whose built recording studios for everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Jay-Z. As someone whose built more than 4,000 audio/video ...
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These BOSS pedals make you sound like a guitar god
Learning to play guitar is a lot of fun (and easier than ever), but somewhere around my 500th attempt at the main riff from “Black Sunshine” I got frustrated. I was playing the right notes, but it didn't sound like White Zombie. In fact nothing I played sounded right – that ...
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What's behind the curious serenading of cybercriminals in Nigerian hip-hop?
Singers use artistic conventions to construct marketable music personas. However, that’s not the full picture. In the US, for example, most American hip-hop and rap songs are also a reflection of the artistes’ living experiences and social communities. These mainly involve gang ...
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'You Can't Take My Door' is both country music and AI's greatest achievement
We know there's no justice in the world because the Country Music Awards, held earlier this month, didn't issue the evening's most prestigious accolade to Botnik Studios for its AI-generated lyrical masterpiece “You Can't Take My Door." The song, sung by humans Elle O'Brien and ...
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A Q&A with Roland CEO Jun-ichi Miki on innovation, Waku Waku, and 'sleeping musicians'
The Roland Corporation is a global powerhouse in the field of music technology. We interviewed Mr. Jun-ichi Miki, Roland Corporation CEO and Representative Director, to find out how the company continues to drive innovation and customer growth. TNW: How does Roland approach the ...
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Spotify ad draws criticism over how it (under)pays musicians
Spotify tweeted an ad for its new partnership with Hulu, along with a comment about "budgets." Several people, including one particularly savage songwriter, pointed out the company shouldn't be the one to talk about money when it offers such a paltry sum to the artists whose music ...
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Sonarworks Reference 4 makes it easy to calibrate recording studio speakers
Your recording studio speakers probably weren't designed to sound perfect in your exact room. Sonarworks Reference 4 Studio ...
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Analog synths are the perfect instrument for people who took all their toys apart
The analog synth is experiencing a second golden age as more and more musicians return to the hardware that once threatened ...
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Fender Play is an excellent guitar tutor for people with social anxiety
Everyone knows the best way to learn guitar is to pay for lessons from a local professional. But what if that's not really ...
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Sounds.com now integrates with Maschine 2 and I'm in producer heaven
Native Instruments' Maschine software recently recieved a free update enabling Sounds.com integration. And there was much ...
