After a couple of decades of stagnation, analog DIY synth making is showing a lot of life again. A lot of the classic cicruit designs are no longer encumbered by patents, and many designers who have moved out from commercial production are happy that their designs still attract interest and fans. The late baby-boomers who grew up with synth envy...

Libsyn Pro allows podcasters to administer multiple RSS channels. The company says it's a perfect launch pad for professional podcasters who produce podcasts for more than one client, since the RSS channels can be delegated. Stats can be rolled into channel groupings, making it easy to generate monthly reports for multiple podcasts. This is something that advertising agencies and commercial sponsors appreciate.

Peter Drescher - audio curmudgeon and B3 monster - posted this article about some issues he has concerning the state of game audio. These are some of the same issues that have been brought up time and time again, and since I've spent my share of time as Audio Director for a large game publisher, I thought I'd comment on...

i recently spoke at the Game Audio Conference in Austin, Texas, and i gotta say, Austin's a pretty nice town if you're a musician doing game audio. Not only do they have an amazingly vibrant game developer community (everything from big names with big games to creative startups with wild but intriguing ideas), but there's this sign: Now, ya gotta...

Anyone who knows me (well) knows that I'm a so-called "Beatleologist"; steeped in all things Beatles from a very young age, and having amassed a reasonably vast store of knowledge and coverage on the topic over the years. I have historically been disappointed by Beatles cover attempts (most of the time). That perspective was knocked off my shoulder last night...

If you're doing something unique and compelling, and if you have a unique voice, your content will always have a place in the world. Radio isn't evil any more than podcasting will be evil when it's replaced by the next new cool thing. Content and message matter whether they're delivered on radio or in a podcast. Focus on that, serve your audience, let radio teach you what it can, and don't worry about evil. Good always triumphs in the end.

Music piracy is now so prevalent that I just heard from a reader who's writing his MBA thesis about it. Most of the questions readers send me have quick technical answers, but the questions from this student were more open-ended, so (with his permission), I thought I'd open the discussion to everyone. I've illustrated the questionnaire with stills from...

Steinberg just revved its Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) standard to version 2.2, delivering support for 64-bit Windows systems. "The ASIO 2.2 SDK provides software engineers with a complete set of tools for creating ASIO-ready host applications and drivers," says the press release. Developers can supposedly download the SDK at www.steinberg.net, but I couldn't find an obvious link. In the meantime,...

I've just released a new SynthEdit module with about 80 different low pass filter configurations, plus some high pass as well. RJ_FILTER3 is available from the syntheditusers group at the YAHOO groups site, under the files/modules. Other recent module news: Chris Kelly has released a whole new module library (good luck on getting any info anywhere): some info on the...

How do you transfer audio files that are too big to e-mail? In the past, I've FTPed files to one of my Web sites with Dreamweaver and then e-mailed the recipient(s) a download link, but that was cumbersome. If the file needed to be private, like a conference-call recording about corporate strategy, I'd save it as a password-protected zip...