Technology

Is Carbon Fiber the Solution for Class Ukulele and Guitar?

Dorico 4 and Dorico for iPad 2 Pick Up the Pace

Steinberg’s Absolute 5 Ticks All the Boxes

Steinberg Introduces Dorico for iPad

Realtime Music Solutions May Have Your Distance Rehearsal Solution Today

For over two decades, New York City-based Realtime Music Solutions (RMS) has been delivering solutions for rehearsing music to the musical theater market. Through software products, RMS has helped countless national, regional, and local theater productions, in addition to serving the school musical production community. And like everyone, when COVID-19 hit, their business was hit hard. No productions means no rehearsals.

JamKazam Just May Save Ensembles in a Virtual Teaching World

JamKazam founder David Wilson was a band kid growing up. He started on trumpet then switched to euphonium. He raised band kids. His eldest son played sax and his daughter plays trumpet in the marching band at Baylor. JamKazam is an online real-time group performance platform for Windows and Mac OS computers. It allows musicians to hear and perform with each other with extremely low latency, and even stream the sum of that performance out via video to YouTube and Facebook Live.

Dorico 3.5: Innovation in Notation

Steinberg’s music notation program, Dorico, has a fascinating history. From the outset, there were rumors and conjectures about what to expect from this new product, followed by an initial release that was clearly incomplete, leaving many to wonder if and when we would see a fully functional program.

Reference 4: Room EQ Made Simple

If you follow any of the online groups on music production, you know a day doesn’t go by when someone doesn’t ask about what gear they should buy for their studios. The responses predictably include everyone’s favorite mics, plug-ins, and speakers.

Steinberg’s Dorico 3

The latest version of Dorico, Steinberg’s professional engraving program, has been released, and it includes an impressive list of new features and improvements.

Soundtrap: Musicmaking and Podcasting for the Classroom

Those of you who are old enough might remember Moore’s Law, the idea that computing power would double every 1-2 years.

Eventide H9 Max: Big Effects in a Small Package

Eventide has a long history of innovation and quality. In the mid-70s, they were the first to bring a digital effects device to market with the H910 Harmonizer. By the 1980s, the H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer added intelligent scalar harmonization and became standard equipment in top studios around the world.

Steinberg Does Jazz

Jazz has always been something of an afterthought in music technology. Other than programs like Band in a Box, support for jazz notation and performance practices has been somewhat limited and often required jazz composers to resort to convoluted workarounds.