Apr 30
Every April, NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) takes place in Las Vegas (where else). Usually this is the place where major manufacturers make major announcements about major new products, but this year, such announcements were pretty thin on the ground.
JVC announced a pair of Pro HDV cameras, with interchangeable lenses, which look interesting, if a little (i.e. very) overpriced, Panasonic released…a DV camera (huh?), Canon released…a lens (big wow) and Sony released…nothing.
As it turns out, Sony might, unintentionally, have made the best move of all, because no matter what was announced, it would inevitably have been completely overshadowed by ‘Red’. Continue reading »
Tagged with: Film • Hardware • News • Rebbetorials • Video
Apr 20
Do you wanna rhyme,
all of the time,
so bad it’s a crime,
Like a poet,
who knows it?
Then check out Rhymesaurus, which combines a 115,000 word dictionary (containing full definitions), a thesaurus (containing 1000 word categories) and…more to the point… a 120,000 word rhyming dictionary…with no less than 21 different rhyme types…noch… Continue reading »
Tagged with: Reviews • Software • Writing
Apr 09
Brought to you by the same team who were responsible for the seriously excellent Z3TA, Dimension Pro started life as part of Cakewalk’s music creation tool ‘Project 5’ and quickly proved to be so popular, that they decided to spin it off as a self contained cross platform plug in.
At the time, this was major audio news, because it was the first time in their history that Cakewalk had released a piece of software compatible with anything other than a PC, so it prompted speculation about the possibility of Mac versions of their other products… Continue reading »
Tagged with: Music • Plugins • Reviews • Soft Synths • Software