Technology Archive

  • TouchScreenDJ

    Töken Multi-touch Interface Changing the DJ Game!

    CHILE-  A man by the name of Rodrigo Campos has designed what could quite possibly be the coolest design for a digital DJ setup that we’re ever seen. The Töken Mutli-touch pedestal uses a rear-projector enabled sheet of glass and just like an iPad, accepts...

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  • TECH TALK: Roger Linn Touch Screen Protoype

    TECH TALK: Roger Linn Touch Screen Protoype

    Berkeley- If you didn’t know already, Roger Linn is a God amongst men when it comes to electronic music. He’s probably best known for his invention of the LM-1 Drum Computer, the first programmable, sampled-sound drum machine in 1979. The LM-1 and its successors the...

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  • TECH TALK: DIY Digital Delay & Reverb Units Using 3.5″ Floppy Drives

    TECH TALK: DIY Digital Delay & Reverb Units Using 3.5″ Floppy Drives

    With May fast approaching, garage sale season is kicking off in the US. For the DIY crowd, that means a lot of digging through piles of obsolete technology in the hopes of finding something usable, then bargaining with the seller to pay as little for...

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  • TECH TALK: Using iPhone or iPad as Midi Controller using TouchOSC

    TECH TALK: Using iPhone or iPad as Midi Controller using TouchOSC

    The folks over at Hexler seem to be pushing what we would typically consider the boundaries for what we use our iPhones or the latest i-darling, the iPad for in our day to day. According to their website: “TouchOSC is a universal iPhone / iPod...

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  • TECH TALK: Top 10 Free ProTools RTAS Plugins for Mac/PC

    TECH TALK: Top 10 Free ProTools RTAS Plugins for Mac/PC

    Sometimes you really have to give it to Twitter. From the mundane daily updates to breaking news from around the world, where else can you get such a wide variety of information and slices of the internet that surrounds us? My boy, reggae producer/emcee Splurt...

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  • TECH TALK: Ableton & Serato to release new software

    TECH TALK: Ableton & Serato to release new software

    UPDATE: The wait is over!!! According to Ableton.com, the new product is officially named “The Bridge”. ABLETON TO SERATO: “The Bridge provides Ableton Transport Control (ATC), giving you turntable-style control of your own multitrack productions. Simply drag an Ableton Live Set to a deck in Scratch...

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  • Lady Gaga Named Creative Director for Polaroid?!?!

    Lady Gaga Named Creative Director for Polaroid?!?!

    So we just heard that POLAROID has decided to do a multi-year partnership with Lady Gaga!?!?! In Lady Gaga’s own words: “I am so proud to announce my new partnership with Polaroid as the creative director and inventor of specialty projects,” said Lady Gaga. “The...

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  • CNET’s Top 10 music-tech trends that will shape the next decade

    CNET’s Top 10 music-tech trends that will shape the next decade

    CNET Contributor Matt Rosoff asked CNET readers the question: “Will the original iPod become an object of fetishization in 2020, like vinyl records are today?” I can’t say that this will be the case as consumer electronics are often long forgotten once the newer, hotter...

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  • The Death of Technics- Say it ain’t so!?!?!

    The Death of Technics- Say it ain’t so!?!?!

    In the last few weeks, we’ve been seeing messages in forums and on Twitter that seem to indicate that the iconic Technics SL-1200 and SL-1210s may be about to be discontinued. If true, this could spell the end of the vinyl DJing era as we...

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