Weezer have launched a contest allowing fans the ability to remix their song, "Love Is The Answer," from the band’s latest full-length, Raditude. The individual instrumental and vocal tracks are separated here, and a public vote will determine the top 10 entrants–each of whom will be featured on Weezer’s homepage and MySpace page and receive [...]
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Songpitch.ca To Launch Soon
The Songwriters Association of Canada and Astral Media Inc. recently announced the launch of a brand new Web portal for songwriters and composers across Canada. The portal will revolutionize the music industry. It enables songwriters across the country to share their compositions, receive advice from industry professionals and offer their creations for sale to music [...]
The Musical Brain
I read an article in our local weekly about producer Vanessa Dylyn (pictured left with Sting at McGill University) and her latest project, “which mixes neuroscience and music [and] examines what music can tell us about the human brain and the what the brain can tell us about music.” Dylyn came across the book This [...]
Musicshake… and Musicshare!
The Musicshake website declares “Music for Everyone, Created by YOU”. TechCrunch featured the site in an article published earlier today. The free Musicshake mixing program (Windows platform only, see interface screenshot below) “lets users create personalized, professional sounding music using a variety of modules and pattern-combination methods, which is quite addictive once you get the [...]
HitLab Dynamic Hit Scoring
A Canadian company, out of Montreal, was featured in an article by Roberto Rocha of the National Post yesterday discussing the DHS (Dynamic Hit Scoring) software featured on its website: HitLab.com. From the article: “We see this as the future of music,” said Eddie Wenrick, chief executive of Hitlab.com,a Montreal startup that aims to be [...]
Microsoft’s Songsmith
Microsoft Research has made a trial version of its program, Songsmith, available for download here. Here’s some info from the website: Ever sing in the car? Maybe in the shower? You know who you are. Admit it, you like to sing, and you like music. Ever thought of writing your own music? Most people never [...]
Review of Sonar 8 PE by CakewalkNet
Songwriter, Rick Paul, has drafted a rather detailed, “thumbs up” review for Cakewalk Sonar 8 Producer Edition that can be found here on the CakewalkNet website. Here is Mr. Paul’s bullet list of enhancements from the latest version: New features, optimizations, and workflow enhancements: Loop Explorer 2.0, dedicated instrument tracks, performance optimizations, user interface optimizations. [...]
Music Computer Stolen – Important Works Lost
In Illinois, Lake Forest College’s Department of Music suffered a serious blow when it’s one and only laptop was stolen – read the full article here and a small selection follows: Associate Professor of Music Donald Meyer, who chairs the department and specializes in use of the studio, called the incident “a devastating loss.” Besides [...]
Tailor Your Backup Band – More Technology Coming
Another Listening Post Wired Blog post from Eliot Van Buskirk had me going today: Amateur musicians should eventually be able to use similar technology to create entire songs using only a vocal melody and an idea of which band — or mix of bands — would sound right playing the accompaniment. Want a backing track [...]
Music’s ‘DNA’ Decoded: Melodyne
Peter Neubacker, the music software engineer behind Melodyne, is interviewed online on the Celemony website here and I hope you take the time to take a look. It’s really quite incredible what his invention within Melodyne, Direct Note Access (DNA), has done for polyphonic sounds (i.e. guitar/piano chords). It allows the user to take individual [...]
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