Jan 17
Today, DRM fears
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Sep 05
IK Multimedia unveils the iRig Pro digital audio interface for iOS and Mac, ships this month for $150 (video)
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Looking to capture some vocals or record a few guitar riffs while you’re out and about? Well, IK Multimedia has yet another gadget that looks to lend a hand. The outfit’s iRig Pro serves up a digital audio and MIDI interface that connects to the full gamut of iOS devices and Mac machines via USB. Battery-powered and quite diminutive in stature, the device wrangles microphones, guitars, MIDI devices and other Hi-Z instruments for mobile recording — with those audio and MIDI inputs able to be employed simultaneously. The connected phone, tablet or laptop actually powers the add-on, but that internal 9V kicks it when needed to provide phantom power to a mic. A smattering of the company’s apps come packaged with the unit including AmpliTube, SampleTank and iRig Recorder. Folks with older Apple devices shouldn’t worry: the iRig Pro ships with cables compatible with Lightning, 30-pin and USB connections. If all of that sounds too good to pass up, $149.99 will be the required investment later this month. For now, venture past the break and take a quick look at the setup in action.
Filed under: Peripherals, Mobile
Source: IK Multimedia
Jun 27
I understand that when you take a picture or video with your phone, it makes a lot of sense to hold your phone upright. It’s more comfortable! It’s totally natural! And though Instagram has helped fix portrait mode pictures by squaring them off, we still haven’t solved the portrait video problem. It’s awful to watch videos like that. Everyone who does it is just a bunch of scrubs.
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Jun 22
There’s nothing quite like missing the very last seconds of that show you so painstakingly DVRed. Especially if that show is a live sporting event, and you explicitly told the damned box to keep going for an hour or two afterwards. It shouldn’t have to be that way, though. And as Slate explains, there’s a better world of perfect recording just across the pond.
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Apr 10
Watch the Police Attack and Arrest a Man for Recording Them with a Cell Phone Camera
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Cameras are the new weapons, or at least that’s what it seems like in the eyes of the police. Police officers from the San Diego Police Department pretty much attacked and arrested a man for recording them with his cell phone camera. Watch the video, it’s pretty awful. More »
Apr 08
Sony – Anycast Touch AWS-750 – All-in-one movie creating device for professional use
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For professional use, Sony is releasing an All-in-one movie creating device called Anycast Touch “AWS-750″. It contains a lot of functions necessary for professional movie creation, including video switcher, audio mixer, streaming encoder, recording, create a ticker, etc.
It has a compact body (about the size of a small briefcase) with a sliding touch panel monitor and it is only 6 kg, which allows for operation in a small space with a few people.
Its greatest feature is you can airplay an event through one-touch operation by setting up images that you want to compose, create effects, set titles, adjust the angles of cameras for each scene in advance and set scenes to the pacing of the event. It is intuitive for users with low experience.
Release date: September, 2013
Price: 2,100,000 yen
Mar 15
Catching up to its iOS rival, IK Multimedia’s iRig recorder app is now available on Google Play. Compatible with all your existing iRig mics and peripherals, the app is tailored to ensure all your audio is suitably organized by date or location — it even saves a backup version for those all-important recording sessions. There’s also a waveform editor available as an in-app purchase ($4.99), adding the ability to select, crop and loop on your phone. You can also reduce background noise as well as speed up (or slow down) your files without affecting the timbre. Recording time is dependent upon how much storage space available on your Android, so those phones with expandable memory are at a slight advantage here. If your audio needs a bit of work, you can pick up the app at the source starting today.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Mobile
Source: iRig recorder (Google Play)
Mar 14
‘Beat Making Lab’ series brings music tech, know-how to aspiring talent in developing communities
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Is the next Mos Def or Azealia Banks languishing in a region where there’s no way to get his or her talent across? The producer who’s laid down beats for those stars, ‘Apple Juice Kid’ (aka Stephen Levitin) along with fellow UNC prof Pierce Freelon aim to find out with a new PBS series called Beat Making Lab. In it, the pair take their talent, teaching skills and crates of audio gear to underserved communities in nations like Panama, Senegal and Fiji. The first episode (below the break) takes place in the Congo, where they’re shown setting up a permanent recording studio at the Yole!Africa non-profit community center, then giving a crash course in beat-making tech to six highly motivated students. The Congalese artists use that know-how to lay down tracks that reflect their unique personalities and culture, which are showcased at the culmination of the episode. The series covets more than just a nice performance, though, as one student put it: “When the instructors return to the US, it won’t be the end, but a beginning for us — because we’ll be able to teach others how to create their own beats.”
Filed under: Misc, Home Entertainment, HD, Alt
Mar 10
There have been plenty of parodies exploring the creepier possibilities of Google Glass, so it should come as no surprise that it’s already been banned in a Seattle bar, even though it’s not even out yet. More »
Feb 14
Historic audio recordings aren’t exactly easy to access and play back since they’re often in obscure or aging formats and sit within giant repositories and private collections, but the Library of Congress is gearing up to help change that for researchers and the average joe. The outfit’s freshly announced National Recording Preservation Plan is headlined by a recommendation to create a publicly accessible national directory of sound recordings that’ll act as an “authoritative discography” with details regarding their production and where copies are housed. You’ll still have to take a trip to a library to hear the recordings for the time being, but the Library of Congress is hoping to hammer out licensing agreements that would allow for online streaming. Developing new preservation standards and creating university-based degree programs for audio archiving are also among the 32 short- and long-term recommendations spelled out by the document. Click the second source link to peruse the paper yourself.
[Image credit: Ray Tsang, Flickr]
Via: Huffington Post
Source: Library of Congress, Council on Library and Information Resources
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