iZotope Announces iDrum for iPhone and iPod Touch

Worthless software for overpriced hype device, or a little musical revolution in disguise?

iZotope iDrum for iPhone and iPod Touch (so many i’s) allows the sketching of beats on an everyday portable device, which could prove useful for songwriting. The application makes beat-making available to everyone with its simple interface.

“The iDrum application takes advantage of unique features of the iPhone platform — users can tap virtual pads to create rhythms, shake the handset to clear patterns, and use slide and flick gestures to navigate the application’s interface. Immersive, colorful visuals show the relationship between different sounds in the beat, allowing users to create new rhythms by creating visual patterns. Using a special companion application, beats can even be turned into ringtones for iPhone.” More…

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[Download] Moozek Studio Foam Wallpapers

There aren’t a lot of quality wallpapers for studio-oriented environments out there. Most desktop backgrounds are created by designers who see nothing else besides pretty, inspirational stuff… for design! What about us? Musicians and studio professionals need to show off a wallpaper they can be proud of, whether they’re running PC or Mac, and still get a warm fuzzy feeling out of it. (Downloads after the jump) More…

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Moozek RSS & Email Subscription

If you’re having ANY problems subscribing to the Moozek RSS2 feed, please comment here and tell us about it. It has always been available, but anything can happen. Feel free to use this post as a message board for complaints!

In the meantime, you don’t really need RSS feeds – now you can subscribe just by writing your email address in the box on the right, and hit Subscribe to Moozek! Then go through the annoying captcha and check your e-mail to activate. Presto. Updates are set. Or you can click here.

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The Indie Age of Music

What could be in store for the Music Industry?

Opinion for ProRec.com. Read the full article.

Like a fast growing teenager from a broken home, the music industry has been tortured by painful and unexpected changes, finally learning how to survive on its own. Today, major labels are the melancholic parents in denial, missing the old days of sense of ownership. They are still in control, suffocating the market transformations as much as they can. But they are losing the game, and they know it: capitalism in the hands of the little ones is a doomsday device against the corporations – More…

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Audio Celebrity Watch: Glen Ballard

This is the first of a continuous series of articles where the most admirable celebrities in the contemporary music industry are referenced (producers, musicians, songwriters, engineers, and others). Knowing our goals and having someone to look up to is an important part of the music and audio craft, so this will be a very educational series, we hope…

YouTube video after the jump… More…

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Before The Music Dies

This is not new, but it’s important to talk about and make sure everyone watches it. It’s about the narrowing fine line between music as art and as product.

Continuing the point I tried to make with The Most Discussed Article on Moozek Yet, back in February, I believe this is something a lot more important to us as music professionals, than CDs mastered at -5 dB with 6% of sample clipping. Amen? Read on…(trailer included) More…

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Google Wants to Compete With Piracy

From the company we can never really tell if it’s evil and unscrupulous, or just evil and cool, comes a quest to kick those pirates ass, in the country where 99% (real data) of all music comes from illegal sources – China. And Chinese are one of the most avid music consumers in the world. But how does Google plan to do that? According to Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica: More…

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Other Blogs and Websites You Should Know About

This one will get updates as it grows. Only non-commercial blogs are listed.

Blogs:
I know what you’re thinking: “Why?” – Moozek is already so perfect and beautiful and updated so often (once every 3 months sometimes) – Why would you consider reading anything else?
More…

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Moozek Makes the People Come Together

There is now a LinkedIn networking group for readers of Moozek (and just about anyone involved). You can find the invitation page here.
Besides subscribing to Moozek’s RSS feed for updates, request a special newsletter for members of the group, if you’re interested. With enough requests, it wouldn’t be a problem to do it.

Go and get your membership now! Happy networking…
Jonathan H. Grand

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Pro Tools for Leopard: Ultimate Reason to Upgrade to 10.5?

As you might know by now Pro Tools 7.4.2 is out, supporting Mac OS X 10.5.3 and 10.5.4 .
But if you don’t know, and if you purchased 7.4 and Leopard, you can run and download it. It has been running pretty stable, but then again, it wasn’t extensively tested.

Even though it seems to run fine, I still wonder if life would be better with no Leopard update at all. I think I still miss the old stability and efficiency of Tiger. Even after all the combo updates, 10.5.4 still feels slow to me, and it still has instability issues with itself and some software, in a machine where RAM is definitely not an issue.

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