This article is about my new collection of Korg Nano devices - or it was going to be until my hard drive died.

Ya gotta love gadgets. As a tech reviewer, I get to check out quite a few, but in this new blog series, I'll highlight some of the gear I've bought — with my own money — that's performed especially well. Following a utility-belt theme, I'll focus on gadgets under $100. The first item in my list, though perhaps too big...

Michael Krasny gabs with John Adams on KQED's Forum about his music, book and life. A must listen. And don't forget to enjoy his opera "Doctor Atomic" about Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. Playing now on your local PBS station....

One of the most popular segments at my recent self-publishing workshop was about podcasting. Here are some of the production tips I shared, plus ones I didn't have time to mention.

Rick Sammon's blog about photographing thousands of snow geese reminded me of an e-mail I got a while back from a world-champion duck caller. He was looking for a digital audio recorder. Here's what I suggested.

You're invited by a whacko group of entrepreneurs, developers, and artists in the music industry to fill out a survey about music creativity software, with a chance to win a prize.

Ok, I'll admit it. I'm a collector of old gear. I'm fascinated with the old stuff that still makes sound, and sound that you just can't get anymore, even with the hottest software and hybrid hardware. So I'm whipping through the piles of chassis, flight cases, wire clusters, patch chord racks; trying to remember what I had used to create...

Watch Moldover deconstruct a toylike keyboard and reassemble it as an innovative musical performance controller.

Now that's what I call interactive music. The fans re-mixed the tunes from the old game, and they got put in the new version of the game. Can you dig it? It's right here:...

Suppose you are happy with a home recording of your voice or your acoustic instrument, except, rats, there were a couple of bad notes. What do you do? Correct the notes using Melodyne, as professional recording studios do, but with surprising ease.