Microbe - Musical fun in the Palm of your hand.

This is so great: an online database of free, user-submitted, Creative Commons-licensed sounds, with audio and visual previews for all.

Cool Gadget Alert: Lots of companies have slapped microphones onto portable recorders. Here’s a high-quality mic with built-in RAM and a bunch of slick features.

Forget the tired “smiley curve” or the all-faders-on-stun settings most people use on graphic EQs. After this music fan posted his “perfect” EQ curve for iTunes, a recording engineer made it even better by turning it upside down.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Propellerhead's classic "Rebirth" program retired yesterday. Line up. Because to celebrate, those crazy guys are GIVIN' it away!!!

The Circle of Life: A MIDI controller shaped like a gun. A gun that fits on your keychain. A keychain that is a universal wireless remote capable of turning off any TV. A wireless adapter to carry MIDI. Which brings us back to "DOH!"

Bob Moog asked me for directions once. Which was pretty ironic, seeing as he blazed the path in my field, electronic music. Then last year, we had an even funnier exchange that points up why this amiable inventor (who died Sunday at 71) was so well-loved.

Technology always affects art, and search technology is no exception. Listening to a band called Tilly And The Wall, I wondered if, consciously or not, their style might have been influenced by search-engine optimization. This after all is a band that features a glockenspiel player and a tap dancer.

Whither General MIDI? 2005-08-09 18:33:59 BeigeBat Or is that wither, General MIDI? At one point, you led a crusade (http://www.fatman.com/fatlabs.htm) to improve General MIDI synthesizers. Are they now as good as they’re going to get? How are composers of interactive music using GM now? Or MIDI in general?

The Smart-Aleck Oracle answers: SMR misses "M" Intelligent Software and asks The Fat Man to exert his Mighty Industry Pull (MIP) to get the code open-sourced. Well, The Fat Man can do better than that.