Resolume 4: What’s New in AV VJ Tool, from Clip Handling to Projection...
Resolume Avenue 4 has been announced today, with a beta version for Resolume owners due September 19. And it’s looking like a very nice upgrade, indeed. Having vastly improved stability, now...
View ArticleIn Max 6, Big Banner 3D + Animation Features for Jitter, Alongside Usability...
We’ve been waiting for some time to learn what was next for Jitter, the 3D, matrix data, animation, and video side of Cycling ’74′s Max 6 graphical multimedia development environment. (Phew!) The wait...
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Lomography Unveils 35mm, Lo-Fi Film Motion Camera, LomoKino – Just in the...
Make all the hipster jokes you like. Fashionable film photography could be all that lies between us and the demise of film. With camera manufacturing and film stock going out of production,...
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Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 Adds Missing Multicamera, Sync, File Management and...
To skip to the punchline: Final Cut Pro X appears to at last do multi-camera editing, and do it right, as seen in the video posted by our friend Nilay at The Verge. To anyone who read deep conspiracy...
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ArKaos Video Mapping is Coming to Mac and Windows; Exclusive Hands-on Video,...
It’s not just projection mapping on buildings as a cool gimmick any more. Live visuals increasingly means adapting to spaces, using multiple outputs and multiple projectors, tailoring your visuals to...
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Mapping, Without Leaving the App: Resolume 4.1 Adds Major Internal Mapping...
Resolume 4.1 New Features from Resolume on Vimeo. Mapping is more than just “that thing you do with a big pile of boxes or the facade of a building as a gimmick.” It’s increasingly expected that...
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Carrot HD Video Mixer + Controller, in Edirol V4-Style Layout, Coming Soon...
HD Rabbit – Introduction from carrotvideo on Vimeo. I keep waiting to write this headline and talk about something that’s shipping. But it might at last happen. We might finally be able to cover an HD...
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V-4 Video Mixer, Now HDMI: First Look at Roland’s V-4EX
For years, the Roland V-4 was the battle axe of the VJ and visual performance scene. Not owning one almost meant you weren’t serious about playing. And the ubiquity of these at community events meant...
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Roland V-4EX: HDMI, RGB, SD Mixer Will Have US$1995 List
We’ve gotten more details on Roland Systems’ Group’s V-4EX mixer. This really is an evolution of the V-4 – and Roland apparently still views “V-4″ to mean standard definition, meaning you’ll need to...
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First Look at ArKaos’ Video Mapper Tool [Screenshots], as the VJ Developer...
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world of mapping. Mapping as a technique can be accomplished in any tool, and its use predated specific end-user tools by a number of years. But 2013 seems the year that the...
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Mapping, Further: At Mapping Festival, Artists Blend Musical and Visual Form...
Mapping: it’s kind of everything. It’s the projected image mapped to the surface. It’s pixels mapped to lights. It’s the control layout you use on your iPad and your fader box mapped to parameters in...
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New Kinect Gets Closer to Your Body [Videos, Links]
The new, svelte-looking Kinect. It’s not that it looks better, though, that matters: it’s that it sees better. Courtesy Microsoft. It’s a new world for media artists, one in which we look to the latest...
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Vuo in Beta: A New Hope for Visual Development? [Resources]
So, without a line of code, you want to make something new, visually. You’ve got Max, you’ve got Pd, you’ve got vvvv. But for quickly cooking up generative visuals, dynamic interaction, live...
View ArticleGet a free pack that recreates Prince’s signature drum sounds
With so much to talk about in recent days about Prince’s legacy, it’s possible to overlook just what a deep impact he had on production and sound design. Working with Roger Linn’s classic boxes, the...
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This is the new DJ mixer from Xone creator and Richie Hawtin
If a DJ mixer could be anything you wanted, what would it be? That question isn’t actually that easy to answer. DJ mixers have a fairly defined set of functions, and not a lot of obvious room for...
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Movement is a do-everything, musical rhythmic effect
Movement is here – and it’s a little scary. The folks at Output have some weird way of dialing directly into the zeitgeist of what we want from production these days, and delivering it in an easy form....
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This is the next-gen notation tool from original Sibelius team
It’s been a few years since the original development and management team behind Sibelius found themselves unemployed at the company they started, following a restructuring by owner Avid. Since then,...
View ArticleA video glimpse of Teenage Engineering’s OP-Z in action
It looks like a small remote control for a game system, but it’s a musical instrument. The OP-Z caught our imagination earlier this year at NAMM with a host of bizarre and wonderful functions, from...
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Ruismaker is an iOS drum synth that feels like hardware, works like a plug-in
Software drum machines aren’t kingmakers the way hardware is. So Bram Bos of Eindhoven is not a household name the way, say, certain hardware makers are. But back in the 90s, Bram’s HammerHead Rhythm...
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So Behringer’s analog synth is a poly, and other revelations
Behringer continues to leak out teaser videos about its upcoming analog synth – and with the rest of the industry out on summer vacation, they’ve got pretty much everyone’s full attention. There’s a...
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