eSession.com Combines Talent & Technology to Enhance the Changing Landscape of the Music Industry (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) The record industry may be in chaos, but the truth is there is more music being made today than at any other time in history. With advances in music software and hardware, artists, bands and songwriters around the world are creating their own home studios for less than $500....more...Holiday Gifts for the Digital Artist from Sony Creative Software (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) MADISON, Wis.----Searching for the perfect gifts to light the creative spark this holiday season? The software tools from Sony Creative Software featured below make it easy for your budding producer to add a professional touch to audio or video projects....more... Be heard: Podcasting with Linux (NewsForge) Many people are giving up blogging to try their hand at podcasting -- creating a downloadable audio file that will play on any standard MP3 player. Recording, editing, and packaging a session isn't very difficult but, until recently not very many tools existed to help you get the job done. Now Linux-friendly applications are starting to pop up everywhere....more... Top Tip: Live sound recording software? (ExtremeTech) I need to record sound from a live source. I would just go with the first thing that came up on google (or, god forbid, windows sound recorder), but I have some special requirements. First, the operators of the system will be ameture sound techs. So while it needs to be full-featred, a clean, straightforward, and stable interface would be nice. Second, it needs to be able to output to mp3 ......more... Allen & Heath Announce Version 3.0 Of Xone Mixed In Key Harmonic Mixing Software (Harmony Central) Allen & Heath has announced Version 3.0 of the innovative 'Xone Mixed in Key' harmonic mixing software. Using a patent-pending process for key detection, the new version provides even more accurate results?including multiple keys for more variety?and integrates seamlessly with top DJ software....more... Review: Shrinkmytunes music software (Computer Active) As the name suggests, Shrinkmytunes squeezes MP3 music on a computer so that it takes up less space, and so that more songs can be fitted on a hard disk or a portable music player....more... SoC enables dual-channel true 1,080/60p decoding. (ThomasNet) With 2D and 3D graphics accelerators, Model Hz7220 delivers dual-channel HD decoding at resolutions up to 1,920 x 1,080, 60 fps, and bit rates of up to 50 Mbps/channel for media players/recorders supporting HD-DVD/Blu-Ray(TM) optical disc formats and legacy red laser DVD format. HD-DVD/Blu-Ray SoC conforms to video compression standards such as AVC/H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 and DV/HDV, as well as ......more... |