Archive: News
Archive: News
Can Pono Change the Face of Mainstream Audio Quality?
By Jason Epstein “WE’RE NOT CHANGING MUSIC. WE’RE LETTING MUSIC CHANGE YOU”, is the message emblazoned across Pono’s landing page. PonoMusic promises to take artist-approved master recordings and put them in the listener’s hands, with fidelity anywhere from 6 to 30 times that of a regular MP3 file. This is Neil Young’s (a man who is
Happy Birthday, Twitter! Oops.
Twitter, the social media site and micro-blogging platform responsible for some of the most salient advances in media and technology, as well as some of the most contemptible offenses in culture, has turned eight years old today. To celebrate, Twitter has launched #FirstTweets, which will dig up your very first Tweet from its archives (hope
London’s Music Tech Fest Comes to Boston
By Kira Grunenberg With a plethora of digital devices and music players perforating modern life, you’d think that the relationship between music and technology would be a more widely discussed topic. Despite the many startups that merge tech and music, a dedicated platform that brings together the growing, lucrative music technology sector is still quite
Traktor Audio 2: Tiny, Loud, and Portable
By Ruben Lone Native Instruments has released the newest, smallest device in its line of digital DJ hardware, the Traktor Audio 2. As “the world’s smallest audio interface,” the Audio 2 is an ultra-compact, high-quality sound card, processing audio at 24-bit/48 kHz. Made for use with Traktor’s iOS app Traktor DJ, as well as the Traktor
Inside The Moog Room at Rough Trade NYC
A disorienting blend of whirrs, beeps, hisses, sirens, and the occasional chord stab inundates the open, concrete warehouse of New York’s recently opened Rough Trade record store. In an elevated boxcar just past the building entrance, the legendary synthesizer company Moog has installed several rigs of modular synthesizers, open to the public for play, experimentation, and
Soundwave Doubles Down with Desktop Music Capture Update
By Kira Grunenberg You might wonder why a widely successful mobile-only app would expand to the stationary side of the technologic border. That’s what Soundwave has done with their most recent update, now available in the iTunes App and Google Play stores. However, the tagline for the update, “Soundwave moves to capture desktop music,” is assuredly