The first news at Cjed Audio Home site was written just 5 years ago. Since, more than 3000 news/articles have been published, and Cjed music downloads at musique-libre (Dogmazic) reached 200 000, without counting direct access.
Most of the previously available 70 songs have been temporarily deactivated (only 4 are still downloadable), in order to give focus on MJ Style album.
There are still about 90 percent unreleased songs (700 total) to be discovered (first were composed in 1987).
The January 2010 Special Event video is available here (90 minutes duration).
A stunning video of the iPad is available here : it demonstrates the power of multitouch, even further than iPhone’s user experience. The screen (9.7 inches) displays up to 1024*768 resolution (can play H264 movies in 720p at 30fps), at 132 ppi (163 ppi for the iPhone). The processor, A4, is custom made by Apple (team from PA Semi) and provides 10h battery life (1 Ghz frequency). Moreover it includes a more powerful 3D chipset than the iPhone 3GS.
The advanced OSX version provides a true desktop (dock, background, windows), and a giant virtual keyboard. Among applications we note iBooks, an ebook reader (with animated/simulated pages swipe), that looks like Delicious Library (with rotating effects, and animating – uses implicit Core Animation – when sorting), a full iTunes, Pages, Numbers et Keynote (10$ for each of these 3 desktop applications), Mail, Calendar, address book, Google Maps, all of these providing advanced multitouch features.
Applications and games from the AppStore (initially conceived for iPhone) can run in windowed mode, or double-sized mode. A dedicaed section will be added to the AppStore. The SDK is still available. Pricing will be 499$ for the 16Gb (Wifi) model – 629$ for Wifi+ 3G -, and availibility is in two months (June/July for 3G models in order to get carriers data plans).
We don’t know yet if a Logic version will be added by Apple.
Roland announced the K-RD700GX1, a SuperNATURAL update for RD-700GX’s piano. This expansion card includes 17 new piano presets, based on modeling (derived from V-Piano) and samples. Details are provided here : . expressivity in every single key (samples), expressivity according to the player’s touch and expressivity of decaying sounds (through modeling).
Expected price is about 329 euros, and it will be available by February.
Roland also presented the VP-7, a stunning vocal processor (see videos here and there). It provides Human Voice mode (Female Choir, Kids Choir, Gregorian Choir, ou Jazz Scat) for playing ensemble voices from the keyboard, and Vocal Designer mode (Duet, Trio1, Trio2) for adding backing voices (2 or 3) that follow the sing (a Roland DR-HS5 microphone is bundled). Finally a Vocoder mode is available. The bypass can be triggered from a pedal. Pricing hasn’t been announced yet.
Roland presented during the NAMM 2010 the V-Combo VR-700, a 76 keys stage keyboard : Virtual Tone Wheel and COSM for organs, and 128 Mb of ensemble instruments samples (88-key multi-sampled pianos, EP, strings, choirs brass, basses, synth pads, etc.). The polyphony is illimited for the organ part, and of 128 voices for the samples part. It also includes 51 rhythms, and audio backtracks can be added from USB.
We can watch a great demo here. The availibility date is March (2329$).
YellowTools offers until February, 15, the Rock Trio samples selection (drums, electric bass, guitar&power chord samples taken from Independance Pro and rock targeted) for each Download Instrument purchase. Among new download parts we also find Jazz Trio (drums, bass and piano, targeted to Jazz music). Finally Independance Pro 2.5 Suite is still offered starting 100 euros Donwload Instruments purchase.
Akai announced the iPK25, a keyboard (host) for iPhone, fitted with audio outputs, and that works with SynthStation application for iPhone. The later provides 3 instruments (based on 3 oscillators) and drum kits. A video is available here.
Spectrasonics announced 64 bits updates to Omnisphere and Trilian on Snow Leopard (beta versions, the final updates will be available by a month). Moreover 32 bits systems (Leopard or Snow Leopard started in 32 bits kernel mode for compatibility reasons) can also access to more than 4Gb of memory, thanks to a new Sample File Server, an external process (same trick as Kontakt 3.5 Memory Server).
Finally an iPhone application, Omni Live, will be provided for free at the AppStore. It will work as a remote controller for Live Mode, and then allow easy presets selection.
Google provides access to Youtube videos through HTML5 video tag, for those encoded in H264 format, and then allows to get better performance than when using Flash. We just have to click on the Subscribe to the HTML5 beta program link in this page. This setting is stored through a coookie.
Dailymotion also allows to watch some videos through HTML5.
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