Tag: audio

31 Days of OS X Tips: Change Audio Input/Output Via The Menubar

I have a pair of USB headphones that I keep connected to my Mac all of the time. I also have a nice pair of...
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Spotify Rolls Out A New Look, Shows That Black Is The New Black

This morning, the Spotify app on my MacBook Air alerted me to a new version and that I should restart the app to upgrade. So...
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Relive The 1980s And Watch This Dot Matrix Printer Play ‘Eye Of The Tiger’

When I hear a dot matrix printer buzzing away, I think of my grade school’s lab full of early-80s vintage Apple IIe computers. With that...
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Beep Lets You Control Any Speaker From Your iPhone Via WiFi

If you own an iPhone and want to stream music from it to a set of speakers, you already can do so through AirPlay. But...
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Relive The 80’s With This iPhone Speaker

If you often find yourself longing for you old tape recorder, but have no intention of listening to or recording to a cassette, the iRecorder...
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Tired Of GarageBand’s Lag? Try Amadeus!

I’ve been podcasting since July of 2005. When I began, I edited the audio using a program called Audacity. It’s open source and cross-platform, but...
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The Alesis iO Dock For The iPad Just Isn’t Cutting It — Here’s Why

The iPad, so far, has proved to be an incredible platform for audio production and creation. Apps from audio technology heavyweights Korg, Moog, IK Multimedia,...
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Pump The Jams On Your iPad With Amplifiear

If you’ve ever played audio over the speaker in an iPad, you know that by itself, it can be rather, well, weak. But when you...
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Spotify for iOS takes audio quality to the EXTREME

Spotify, the popular streaming music service, can now play very high quality music on iOS as well as the desktop. Previously, the Spotify app for iOS...
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Mackie announces the DL1608 mixer, powered by your iPad

Mackie, maker of sound reinforcement and recording gear, introduced their new DL1608 mixer last week at NAMM. For many live sound engineers, the Mackie name...
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Logic Express 9: Now with less bugs

The now semi-defunct Logic Express 9 received some love this week from Apple by way of the 9.1.6 update. Don’t get excited, though. We’re just...
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iHome announces the tear-worthy iP4 boom box

I love, love, love technology. I yearn for living on the bleeding edge. Every now and then though, I am up for a bit of...
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Apple and Guitar Center getting ready to teach musicians how to record music

Word on the street is that Apple’s looking to get more independent musicians onto GarageBand so that they can record their music from the luxury...
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THX creator, Tomlinson Holman, allegedly moving to Apple

Leo Laporte has broken the news on Twitter — Tomlinson Holman may be working for Apple in the near future. It’s rumored that Apple’s looking to...
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Universal remote Peel for iOS gets $16M funding

The bane of any home entertainment system is the multitude of remotes that you end up with. One for each device, which adds up to...
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VoiceJam 1.2 from TC-Helicon lets you loop, tune, and create tracks with your voice

What do Imogen Heap, Kraftwerk, Snow Patrol and Bootsy Collins have in common? They’re all artists that use TC-Helicon products to treat or loop their...
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5 awesome Apple podcasts for your listening pleasure — audio edition

We love podcasting, so much in fact that we have two of our very own. We’re also looking to expand to a third one in...
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Apple and music labels in talks to improve music download audio quality, but how?

According to an article on CNN, Apple and other online music retailers are in talks with record labels to improve the quality of the tracks...
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