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Completely by chance, I got to meet with the legendary "era-defining" international DJ of house music, Jon Da Silva (Actually, it's Dasilva but you'll most likely see it written on flyers as Da Silva).

Noneric - AKA Hans - of Digitalmusician.net and his team have been working hard on their online collaboration software - The Digital Musician Recorder (DM-Recorder) - over the last few months and, I have to say, just looks awesome.

I just happened to bump into the brother of Ian Lewis tonight, owner of Cheshire-based Whitby Studios in the UK. I haven't seen him in years; good catching-up with you again, Nige ;)

Anyway, since 2003 the studio has been offering student placements for those wanting to learn the finer points of audio engineering in a real working, busy, studio - Ian's apparently looking for another again, to start September 2007.

A Free Cakewalk SONAR 6 update is now available for download which - along with Vista-compatibility (32-bit and 64-bit) - also comes packed with new features.

Just ran a quick comparison of the first few popular audio/midi editors that came to mind using Google Trends which shows what search-words are on the rise, or on the fall... a barometer of popularity, ya could say.

I punched-in: Cubase, Cakewalk, Ableton and Pro Tools. The results are listed below.

Reckon you could write and record either 10 songs, or 35 minutes of original material in 28 days?

Well, RPM Challenge is once again reaching-out to grab you by the collar and slap you in the face before shouting: Come-head then, show us what you've got man-queen!!

Propellerhead have declared their software to be ready for use within Microsoft's upcoming new operating system, Vista - Seems all the major music software vendors are clamouring to be ready in time now.

If you have a website, blog, or even a MySpace profile containing links to copyrighted MP3's, watch out:

Record industry lawyers have been given the go-ahead to pursue you by the Australian courts.

A court ruling has given the recording industry the green light to go after individuals who link to material from their websites, blogs or MySpace pages that is protected by copyright.

In a bid, I daresay, to stay ahead of the pack, MOTO are shipping early beta releases of Vista-compatible drivers for all their MOTO Firewire, PCI and USB hardware interface products