I don’t usually recommend audio products in this post. But I think you’ll agree, this is an important milestone. The press release says it works for Windows and Mac, but it'd probably work on Linux as well. INFINITUDE!™ 1.0 Dynamic Exaggeration Plug-in! Saratoga, CA - April 1, 2008 The Sound Guy, Inc. has announced the release of INFINITUDE!™, their long-awaited...
I just downloaded the new Miro player (formally Democracy Player). It's very nice, seems to organize videos reasonably well, is free, multi-platform, open source and includes features I believe all video players should provide. But, when I got to checking it out, I was disappointed with the audio quality on many of the videos featured on Miro's Getting Started page....
Recent postings in a sound design group point out examples of great sound design in television commercials. Here are some of my favorites:...
If you're a frequent user of the free Pandora music service, as I am, you've noticed their powerful web interface has been updated. Along with the update are two new announcements providing users access to Pandora's large music database, and your musical preferences, on the road and in the home....
If you missed it, see 60 Minutes interview with Negroponte about the teams dreams and the origin of the laptop idea....
The German webzine "heise mobil" has an excellent 8 (web)page article on the XO (English translation provided), A good review of the hardware, the XO's unique dual-mode display, the innovative software (including Etoys!) and the cooperating developers and sponsors....
If you haven't heard, Paul Davis and friends have just released the second version of Ardour - a free open-source multitrack recorder for Linux and now for OSX. The intro on the site gives a good summary: "Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control...
Jessica Dolcourt posted a great article on the One Laptop Per Child initiative in Nigeria on CNET news. We are finally seeing the beginning of the first deployments of the laptop. I think we're going to be impressed with what these young children do with this technology. Photos and Video of the 3-day event also available. Nice overview of the...
The Linux Audio Conference is in full swing until March 25th in Berlin. If you can't make it, you can view the streams during the program. As in previous years, the streams will be archived and made available after the conference. There are also several IRC channels devoted to the conference (copied from their page) #lac2007 for general chitchat about...
I have created a variety of views for the Audio sessions for this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (much faster than waiting for GDC's site). Even if you are not a composer or sound designer, there are plenty of sessions worth checking out: All Audio Sessions in chronological orderLectures Mobile Audio SessionsPanels Roundtables Sponsored SessionsIAsig recommended sessions (more...
