Great blog post covering Pono and the trends in music from a well known music producer. There is a lot of work to still be done in ending the era of bad sound quality but I like how he acknowledges … Read the rest
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The Resolution Wars
MP3’s are dying, thank god. MP3 is a transitionary technology that has overstayed it’s welcome.
If you believe lossy MP3 is all you need for music, goodbye. Come back when you want to listen. Yes 320k is better than 192k … Read the rest
Really Can’t Miss It
Tom Petty talking about high resolution audio:
It’s Bandwidth, Stupid
Everything digital boils down to bandwidth –
- how much you have
- how much can you use
- how fast the data can move through it
Bandwidth comes in several forms. The network connection is the obvious one because we already use … Read the rest
New Listening Test – A Proposal
It’s time for a better listening test. It’s time to use our understanding properly.
A proper listening test…
- needs to use all available sensory data from a modern smartwatch/ wearable CPU device
- needs to be portable and self-contained to allow
Best Thing Ever
Lofty headline, no?
Music is life. Perhaps we should all play music to each other, that might be a better world.
Instead we developed technology to record the music so we can play it on demand without musicians present.
After … Read the rest
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PonoPlayer Review Is Posted
I have a few revisions to make but I thought I’d get this thing posted so I can start sharing out the link next week. Enjoy my long-form run through what a PonoPlayer is, and why you might want one:… Read the rest
The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes
The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes – Slashdot.
What an amazing group of stories about sound, and what sorts of things can be learned by removing as much of it as possible.… Read the rest
I Support Pono
I love this idea.
Neil Young finally got his wish to attempt to restore audio fidelity to our lives. They are calling the thing Pono and most of the press reports on it present it as a battle with … Read the rest
Touch the Music
Here’s a nice overview article on some of the tech that’s changing music making, particularly the iPad. As someone who’s produced several tracks with just a laptop, an interface, a mic, and a midi board, this is a big change. … Read the rest
The Pressure Is On, or Why I Decided To Record An Entire Album In One Weekend
I’ve produced quite a few songs at this point for a variety of artists and styles. I’ve also released many of my own productions – countless hours in the dark studio clicking, sliding, and space bar-ing my life away.
This … Read the rest
He Beat Me To It (Again!)
Damon Albarn from Gorillaz is rambling forward yet again, pushing to release the first major project recorded on an iPad this holiday season.
I’ve messed around with the 4-track recorders and many of the synthesizers and other iOS instrument apps. … Read the rest
Controversial Ruling On Sampling Involves P-Funk
A Federal Appeals Court in Cincinnati ruled that “If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you ‘lift’ or ‘sample’ something less than the whole? Our answer to that question is in the negative. Get a license or do … Read the rest
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