Subcycle Labs is the creative work of Christian Bannister a musician, designer and developer located in Portland, Oregon. The on-going project has taken Bannister through many adventures with various bits of technology and software and forced him to make countless choices that affect every aspect of the interface. Although, it’s not the Minority Report, hand-gesture interface of our dreams, it does attempt to wade into those waters...

Blackberry has launched their BBM Music service. Here’s the orientation video. » Mix music and friends — Build custom playlists for parties, road trips or workouts and share them with your BBM Music friends. And since BBM Music is tied to BBM, you can chat about what you’re listening to from within the app. » Keep your songs fresh — Each month you and your friends can swap out 25 of your 50 profile tunes, so...

Celemony Software has announced ARA Audio Random Access, a pioneering extension for existing audio plug-in interfaces. ARA expands the communication between plug-in and DAW, affording the plug-in for the first time musical access to the audio data. Developed by Celemony in collaboration with Presonus, ARA presently connects the Presonus DAW Studio One 2, shipping this fall, with the current Versions 1.3 of Melodyne. Other manufacturers and...

sE Electronics recently unveiled their new Egg reference monitors. Here, Andy Munro, an acoustic consultant with 30 years of experience of studio and monitor design, talks about the development of the sE Munro Egg studio monitors designed in collaboration with sE Electronics’s James Ishmaev-Young and Siwei Zou. sE...

Stanton has announced the SCS.4DJ, a new all-in-one digital DJ system featuring a built-in computer, controller and mixing software. The SCS.4DJ will reportedly be available sometime in July for $499. The Stanton SCS.4DJ is an integrated DJ system offering one-button automatic synchronization. The digital mix engine also allows the SCS.4DJ to be placed into “Auto-DJ” mode, where the unit will automatically mix the music in your...

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