Jukedeck are a UK based startup which is composed (ahem) of software developers, musicians and producers, who have developed a way to automatically generate music to suit any project. Their target is video producers, such as Youtube artists, that need royalty-free music to use without the pain of trawling through royalty-free libraries searching for a
Continue reading »It Was a Very Good Year – 2014 in Review
So it’s 2015 already. The end of the year kind of creeped up on me, so I’m definitely pushing against the statue of limitations on ‘Year-End Review’ posts, but since 2014 was a good year, it’d be a shame to miss it! At the end of the year on December 15th we celebrated 3 years
Continue reading »Higher Sampling Rates – When is Higher Better?
Here’s a great article from Trust Me I’m A Scientist explaining sampling rates and the advantages and disadvantages of higher sampling rates. This is probably the most balanced, detailed and above all accurate article I’ve read on the topic which as we all know has passionate folks in both camps. Well worth a look
Continue reading »Digital Media Basics from Xiph.org
Two instructional videos from the xiph.org foundation, a “non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests” give a really excellent introduction and overview of Digital Media. The first video – A Digital Media Primer for Geeks – discusses the current state of digital media – which everyone now has
Continue reading »Tildemash – An Isolated Studio Track Mashup Generator
Andy Baio of waxy.org created this excellent random mashup generator using Isolated Studio Tracks from Youtube. It uses simple javascript to randomly select from a prepopulated array of Youtube url ids for each instrument (vocals, guitar, drums, keyboard) and fills the page with the embedded youtube video for those videos. Once the tracks start playing together wonderful (or not so wonderful)
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