Ableton Live 9 release date has been announced for March 5 this year. I’m very excited to get my hands on the push controller as well as the newly redesigned Live.
Particularly interesting will be the Max4Live scene. They are now building this into the highest end Ableton so more people will have their hands on this incredible tool.
Edited: February 18th, 2013
This song has been on my rotation a lot this year. Feed Me is one of my faves, I’m also a huge fan of his DnB alias Spor.
Anyhow Happy New Year and keep listening to sick music!
Edited: December 31st, 2012
So I don’t have a TV, and whenever something actually good happens on it I generally miss it.
These guys were originally featured on So You Think You Can Dance earlier this year. Lately they have been doing music videos, commercials and just plain old crazy concept videos like this one below!
I’ve probably watched this about 20 times, every time my girlfriend comes in the room I’m watching it! You’ve been warned, its super-cool!!!
Edited: December 4th, 2012
This week’s music mondays post is a cut from Wel Von Stoct, a UK based guitar and electronic producer. We came across this awesome rock song working in studio at www.digitalsongmastering.com
This song is the perfect listening experience, a mix between programmed and acoustic drums and a very awesome guitar tone, check out this solid instrumental track:
Mastering by www.digitalsongmastering.com
Download Liquid Highway on iTunes here: 
Edited: November 26th, 2012
Today’s Music Mondays post comes from New York-based rapper SOULANY.
SOULANY (pronounced Soul-an-eye) grew up on the streets of New York and combines some tight rhymes with inspirational words to express his message. His message is simple, raise awareness through inspirational music about the struggles in Tibet and around the world.
From his bio:
SOULANY brings to the table lyrics that express a pure and conscious view of the world around him from both a local and political standpoint. From topics about family to the ongoing conflict in Tibet, he uses his knowledge and understanding of familiar and foreign topics to give his listeners a fresh new perspective of the overall power of Hip Hop to be a voice of the people.
Check his music out today. Mastering by www.digitalsongmastering.com
Edited: November 19th, 2012
This week’s Music Monday’s post comes from Philadelphia’s Mindless Hope.
Mindless Hope are a killer 5 man, progressive instrumental metal band. Their first album is called Verbatim and this is the first cut.
An Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient analog computer that is thought to have calculated astronomical motions with incredible accuracy and precision considering it is 2100 years old. Modern science would not achieve similar mechanical precision until the late 14th century when clocks began to be built with similar precision.
Just like the ancient and mysterious Antikythera, this track’s constant meter and precision is a demonstration of total mastery. The guitar distortion is a perfect blend of low and high end rumble and it sounds like the chug of 50 steam engines combined with the wail of Joe Satriani’s evil children. Check it out below
Mastering by www.digitalsongmastering.com
Edited: October 29th, 2012
Woah, go check yerself! Ableton Live 9 has just been announced, to be released in 2013.
New improvements include a dedicated controller, Suite includes max for live (YES!) among dozens of other core-usability improvements.
This is major news for the music making community. More to follow
Edited: October 26th, 2012
If you’ve visited the iTunes store any time in the last six months you’ve probably ran across the chart topping artist Walter “Wally” De Backer aka Gotye. If he wasn’t “Somebody that you used to know” I’m sure you know him now.
What you might not have known is how Ableton Live plays a pivotal role in his bands live performance. In this video, from the Ableton website, he goes into details explaining how the software has enabled him to do more with his live performance.
This is one of the primary reasons I have settled with it as my primary tool. The reliability and sonic capabilities of the software speak for itself.
(P.S. We Love Ableton!)
Buy Gotye on iTunes 
Edited: October 22nd, 2012
I recently purchased a new Mac Mini for use as my desktop computer in the office. One of the appeals was the high-speed Thunderbolt port. This port is faster than USB 3.0 (of which the mac mini has 0 ports 
) and can daisy chain etc, overall it would be quite useful for audio and video editing.
I was recently reading Anandtech’s article dicussing the possibilities of a thunderbolt docking station. Currently only the $999 Apple display has that feature. You can read more about the upcoming thunderbolt docks here, but the basic gist for users is as follows:
MacBook Air users may be able to justify spending $249/$399 on a Thunderbolt dock because their connectivity is limited to two USB 2.0 ports and Thunderbolt, and a dock would add ports such as FireWire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet. However, it’s good to keep in mind that Ivy Bridge and UM77 chipset will bring native USB 3.0 support to MacBook Air as well, hence it may be more affordable to sell your current MacBook Air and buy a new one than to keep the old one and buy a Thunderbolt dock.
Wait, what? It would be cheaper to sell your old one, and buy a new one than to buy a Thunderbolt dock!?
So obviously these docks are carrying some sort of a premium. I can live without USB 3 (I think?) but this means I will require a thunderbolt equiped hard disk. And these aren’t cheap either.
There are a few options by LaCie around $200 (a 120gb SSD Drive) or $250 (a 1tb platter disk) and a similarly priced range of drives manufactured by WD, either way you’re looking at a $300 product.
I can either use a $30 usb 3 drive enclosure (with a disk I already own) along with a $249 dock, or I can get a $275 Thunderbolt disk (the benefit being I would get an additional hard disk to store stuff).
My grandfather was famously quoted throughout my life as saying:
What deal?! The best kind of deal is the one you don’t have to pay for!
And while this frustrated me as a child I can’t help but hear myself saying these same words with regards to Thunderbolt.
SO, basically there’s a thunderbolt conspiracy to keep the cables cost < $40 and it would be logical to assume that the same people are setting the market for the chips required in the thunderbolt / USB 3 to SATA causing every manufacturer to have a similarly high price (after taking into consideration profit margins)
I will be waiting for a bit more before purchasing any docks or drives. I think the best bet will be a thunderbolt equipped drive for high-speed near-line storage.
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Edited: October 17th, 2012