Apple’s rumored cloud-based music service allows users to post their music to a cloud server where their songs will be available to play from their phones, computers, and any other devices they may have.
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Music Equipment & Technology
Google Music is the long awaited music service now available in the Beta stage. It allows you to upload your music to a cloud so that you can listen to it anywhere. It also is available on Androids and has the ability to create playlists for you.
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We Are Hunted is a cool web app used for discovering new music and recently they launched a new app for the iPad called, Music Hunter.
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Fender and Rock Band 3 are helping blur the line between gamer and musician with their latest invention. Fender created an actual guitar that uses MIDI to play along with Rock Band’s challenging game.
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Making tuning a faster process is definitely needed. If you’re a guitarist, you know how quickly a live show can turn boring if you have to stop and get your instrument back to playing in key. Luckily, HardWire is now shipping the HT-6 Polyphonic Tuner that was announced at the NAMM show. The HT-6 allows you to do something very cool; by recognizing each frequency individually, it you can tune all your strings at once. There press release below tells all the details.
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The laptop orchestra is a group of 15 or more computer musicians performing live, and Ge Wang is the Stanford Professor who brought the laptop orchestra to his university after seeing what they accomplished at Princeton. But behind every great computer musician is great software. In this case, that software is ChucK. As part of the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547), Ge Wang discusses this revolutionary new software.
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The Kitara by Misa Digital is the next generation guitar. Instead of strings, it has an 8-inch touch screen, which can be used to strum or to control effects. The Kitara is also one of the first options for guitarists to have a MIDI controller that is not a keyboard. It retails for around $850.
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Say goodbye to percussion and string sections at your favorite music halls. The future is bringing a new type of ensemble: one filled with computer musicians. The stages are now being taken by around 15 people on pillows with their MacBooks in hand. Next to each of them is an omni-directional speaker which they have created from an IKEA salad bowl. They are being led by a virtual conductor and running their ideas through a programming language, called ChucK, which is their primary software platform for sound synthesis/analysis, instrument design, performance, and education.
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