Category: Gear

Ian Rogers Talks Tech Innovation, Marketing Changes For New Music Industry at Touring Conference

Topspin’s Ian Rogers sat down with Billboard at last week’s Touring Conference in New York City to discuss the ways in which emerging technology is changing the music industry, specifically how artists can market themselves directly to fans. “Artists are bringing an increasing amount of marketing value,” he said, emphasizing that promoters look to the…


Samplr – A Multi-Touch Sampler For iPad

Developer Marcos Alonso has introduced Samplr – an iPad sampling instrument designed for live performance. Unlike other apps that try to recreate real life instruments or interaction concepts from traditional computers Samplr was designed from the very beginning for Multi-Touch devices. Features: 7 different play modes: Slicer, Looper, E-bow, Tape, Scratch, Keyboard and Loop Player. 6 simultaneous…


Sonic TALK 291 – Windows App Developer – Wizdom Music Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier

Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier join me for a special episode where we talk about developing apps for the Windows 8 platform.


A Chat with Jim Jonsin

Jim Jonsin, the Grammy Award winning producer of Beyonce, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Shakira and many others sat down with us and told us some interesting insides on how his Virus TI centric minimal setup works. [BeatMakingVideos]


Beat Thang Tips – Sequencing workflow and making a beat

I’m just testing some new firmware updates for the Beat Thang hardware and wanted to do a video showing the sequencing workflow. I don’t really use the BT with anything else, mainly samples I’ve loaded in and sometimes a midi controller. Looking forward to the BTV becoming a full editor for it so I can…


Sonic TALK 290 – audio only

Sorry folks, there was an error with the video this week, so its audio only…. We talk about the Moog Minitaur V2.0 OS update. Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface, then Tim Exile’s brilliant Reaktor/ Controlerism setup.


Pensado’s Place #90 – Producer/Engineer Mike Clink

In the 90th episode of Pensado’s Place, Dave and Herb are joined by Producer, Engineer, and Mix Engineer Mike Clink! Mike is probably best known for his work with Guns N’ Roses, Mötley Crüe, Megadeth, Triumph, UFO (including Strangers in the Night), Jefferson Starship, The Babys, Heart, Eddie Money and many others. Among many other…


Big Fish Audio Titan review – SoundsAndGear

Checking out TITAN, a new cinematic/dramatic styled library from Big Fish Audio which is also part of their KLI series which includes premade custom patches for Native Instruments Kontakt.


Sonic Talk 289 – You Just Got To Touch It

Ableton Live 9, Push, Steven Slate Raven MTX, 1956 IBM 5MB HD


First Reactable Interactive Album Released By Oliver Huntemann

Reactable Systems has released a interactive album on their interactive music platform. Reactable Artist Edition: Oliver Huntemann places a range of objects at your disposal: Generate sound with a set of objects including synthesizer, oscillator, sample player and various loop players. Modify generated sounds with a set of effect objects including wave shaper, delay, modulator and filter….