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The Worlds First Comic Book Rock Opera
March 19 2008
This is a weekend experimental project I've been doing with a friend. Jet Age Comics No. 1: The Arch Episode 1: Iconica Wins We'd like to invite [YOU] artists to illustrate it and post their [your] own [better] visuals.... read moreNow You Can Fix (or intentionally screw with) Individual Notes Within a Recorded Chord
March 11 2008
This is something new. The Celemony/Melodyne product is an awesome one, which used to let you fix any notes that were individually recorded. Now you can correct, say, the individual strings of a guitar chord, or the late timing of the tenor in your barbershop quartet. I haven't played with… read moreRibbon Microphone-HUGE bang for you buck
March 06 2008
The Cascade Fat Head II ribbon mic No, it's not just the name. This is one of those amazing values that happens only very rarely --a pro-level mic for $199. --and a world-class version with Lundahl 2192 Transformers for $349. OK, no, I don't know what a Lundahl transformer is… read moreIASIG UNVEILS WORLD’S FIRST OPEN GAME AUDIO SPECIFICATION
March 06 2008
My most optimistic hope is that IXMF will be to interactive media what MIDI was to keyboard music. read moreHere's some stuff I have to say about game audio
March 06 2008
Alex Brandon wrote this kind article for MIX magazine. It represents well some of the things I'd very much like to pass on to all y'all O'Reilly readers.... read moreVocalist Live 4: A Gift from the Gods
October 11 2007
Just a quick message to capture my enthusiasm for this new version of the Vocalist Live stomp box. I got mine today, and I feel like I've been given a gift that I've been longing for my whole musical life...... read moreAugust 18 2007
The Variax is an elegant, functional guitar, whose look is lent a great dignity by its lack of pickups. To play in my wife's Nerd Band, the Captains of the Chess Team, I took a perfectly good, new Variax and... read moreDo You Sing and Play Guitar? YOU MUST BUY THIS.
March 01 2007
You know how I am...I never recommend gear, I just wax all philosophical about theories and such. However. I am currently so stinking excited I can't sit still!!!! Don't tell the other guys, we jam tonight, and I have a--no,... read moreFebruary 01 2007
The fever I got is of the Analog Modular kind. There's a lot of that going around--a wonderful resurgence in hands-on, knobs-and-patch-cables, Not For Any Reason(R), synthesis.... read more"Air Guitar Shirt" allows you to create "Real Music"
November 13 2006
Wait...just a sec...the phone is ringing. "Hello? What? What's that? You're calling from where? A Mile Away??? And you saw this COMING???"... read moreThe Definition of Insanity is, perhaps, using that quote.
October 16 2006
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. " -Benjamin Franklin --Or Not. I could stand it no more, so I did a little research, using the "World Wide Web," where the... read moreTired of seeing your old ideas in new products? Get Even!!!
September 27 2006
We're O'Reilly readers. We're smart. And we've all had it happen to us. We're watching TV or browsing through the airline catalog, and then we see it: HEY! I THOUGHT OF THAT TEN YEARS AGO!!!!! (Go ahead, reply to this... read moreMiraculous Paper Digital Clocks on Easy-Bake Ovens: They Work!!
September 12 2006
How were the makers of this Easy-Bake Oven able to make the digital clock, obviously just a paper sticker, actually advance in time?... read moreMellotron demonstrated for home use.
August 21 2006
We all remember the Mellotron from the Strawberry Fields flute line. "...always know sometimes think it's me..." I had no idea it was such an ambitious, fancy, and musical machine, on top of being dang clever and cool. See it... read moreOrigin of the iPod--Shall we have a Geekly Argument?
August 20 2006
Go here and bang around for "appliance." http://www.projectbarbq.com/bbqtopic.htm (thanks for the photo, Dave Battino) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2032 You'll see that the topic of "PC versus Appliance," especially as relates to audio, was brought up elegantly in 1997 by Van Webster in... read more