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Akai utilizes iPhone/iPod Touch technology


(Screenshot courtesy of emusician.com)

The wizards at Akai (famous for their sampler lines world-wide) have come up with an ingenious way to integrate the iPod Touch/iPhone technologies with their sampler/controller line. Enter the iPk25.
It’s a 25-key controller which hosts the i-gadget. Load up the Akai app (avail via iTunes) and you’re making tunes. Want people to hear them? Dude, just plug in the audio outs to your PA system. When you get back from the streets, plug the controller into your computer via USB and it becomes a standard MIDI controller for your workstation.

I want one.

BRILLIANT.
Peep the video from this year’s NAMM on E-Musician: Akai iPk25 Controller

How To: Re-add an LP to iTunes

I just recently accidentally deleted an LP from my iTunes. Ugh. Muse’s LP for “The Resistance” is awesome. How the hell do I get it back into my library? Apple confused me for a brief moment… Until I figured it out.
Here’s how:
(With iTunes open)
1. Go to “File”
2. Go to “Add Folder to Library…”
3. Navigate to your iTunes music folder for the band that has the LP
4. Find the folder with the name of the album that has the LP
5. Highlight the folder with the “*.itlp” file extension, and click “OK”

Here’s what it looks like for me (your results may vary):

Enjoy! Know about any other tricks with iTunes? Let us know…

Apple Strikes Again!

Steve Jobs of Apple was back on the job and announced some new additions and modifications to it’s current line up of offerings. They include:

- iPod Classic upped to 160GB
- iPod Nano now includes a speaker, video camera, and a microphone, available today.
- iTunes 9 is released with additional sync features, app/music sharing, and additional content options with downloaded movies and music. Liner notes and artwork are among new features of digital content.
- iTunes Genius DJ – basically implies that the genius will shuffle your music according to what you have in your library…
- iPhone users can now download firmware update 3.1

More to come…

Visit http://www.apple.com/ for more information.

Apple’s "Snow Leopard" OS – Avail. Aug 28th

Woo hoo! Apple peeps everywhere should be stoked that the Snow Leopard upgrade for their systems running Mac OS X Leopard. It will set you back a whopping $29 (if you bought your Mac on or after June 8th, you only pay $9.95). You can pre-order now by going here. What does this mean for Joe User? Well, (to keep it simple), the OS has been streamlined, enhancements to current processes were made, and it utilizes the horsepower of the CPU cores in your machine better. You should see enhancements in speed and snappiness, there Dexter.

Digidesign Pro Tools Users: As with all Mac OS updates: Don’t upgrade yet. Digidesign (Avid Technologies) has the uncanny ability of not supporting new Mac operating systems for a while. Patience is a virtue. Now, while Digidesign hasn’t formally said anything about supporting the new Mac OS flavor, I can’t imagine an announcement from them is too far off…

Stay tuned, cadets.

(image from Apple, Inc. http://www.apple.com)

Groovemaker – IK Multimedia

Groovemaker
(picture courtesy of Groovemaker/IK Multimedia)

Dude. This is insane. If you have an iPhone, go get IK Multimedia’s new app, called Groovemaker. You can mix House, Club, Hip Hop, Techno, Trance, etc. Set up the beats, then sequence it. Is that not enough? Just export your tune over WiFi.

IK Multimedia also creates some awesome DAW plugins and samplers.

More info: http://www.ikmultimedia.com/ or http://www.groovemaker.com/

Get it.

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