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The new Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft is basically upon us now. So I've spent a fair number of hours trawling through a small mass of Microsoft techno-babble (around 2 years worth FFS!!) to get a grasp of what goodness - if any - there is in store for us computer-musicians... 'cos let's face it, sooner or later, most of us will be confirmed "Vistarians"!
In furtherance of yesterday's plea urging GoDaddy to do the right thing for Maddie, I felt it would be remiss of TheWhippinpost to not equally do the right thing and say, big-up GoDaddy.
GODADDY - MONEY ASIDE: DO THE RIGHT THING FOR MADELEINE
There is something smelly about this - The smell of money.
[UPDATE: GoDaddy did the right thing - Matter closed. Thanks to everyone who got in touch. Bo!]
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 very hard on their online collaboration software - The Digital Musician Recorder (DM-Recorder) - over the last few months which, I have to say, just looks awesome.
I just happened to bump into the brother of Ian Lewis tonight - Haven't seen him for years. Good catching-up with you again Nige ;)
Anyway, his brother, Ian, runs Whitby Studios (still!) which is based in the UK (Cheshire). Since 2003 they've been offering student placements for those wanting to learn the finer points of audio engineering, in a real working busy studio.
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.
