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M-Audio Venom Synth Receives New Firmware

M-Audio has released the 1.15.4 firmware version (Mac) for their top-drawer synth called Venom, upgradable using the special tool, now version 1.8.7. The corresponding pieces for Windows are driver version 5.10.0.5142  and updater version 1.0.13.Venom is a synthesizer that mixes the colorful tonal warmth of the ...

19 December 2011
11:15 GMT

Photosynth Embraces Facebook

Microsoft has not been shy about embracing the world’s most successful social networks with a variety of its online properties, including MSN and Windows Live, but there always seems to be room for additional such connections. Photosynth, Microsoft’s tool that allows users to transform a collection of ima...

27 April 2010
04:02 GMT

Photosynth Blackout Results in 'Missing Content' Errors

As of April 15th, Microsoft had resolved the blackout that took offline its Photosynth website, but was still working to make all content accessible to end users. On April 15, at 16:00 PST, the Redmond company had managed to bring back online approximately 50% of the content that was initially being reported as missi...

16 April 2010
07:40 GMT

Photosynth "Holiday Lights" Challenge

The Bing Home Sweet Homepage photo contest is not the only challenge from Microsoft designed to inspire users to share their imagery with the world. The Photosynth team is holding its own season thematic contest, under the moniker "Holiday Lights." Specifically, the Redmond company is looking for people to share thei...

15 December 2009
10:43 GMT

New Photosynth Release Now Live

Microsoft has kicked up a notch a service designed to let end users build three dimensional spaces of 2D images. At the end of November 2009, the Redmond company introduced the latest update to Photosynth, indicating that users will be able to benefit new graphical user interface elements as well as a boost in perfor...

2 December 2009
05:25 GMT

Microsoft Photosynth Upgraded

Microsoft has upgraded Photosynth, introducing Overhead View, a new major feature, complemented by an array of various but smaller enhancements. Specifically, Overhead View is designed to deliver an entirely new perspective over synths. Microsoft Photosynth is a service that allows users to build navigable 3D spaces ...

9 October 2009
07:18 GMT

Photosynth: One Year and 422,508 Synths Later

Microsoft Photosynth has turned one, and judging from the millions of photos uploaded and the billions of FLOPs necessary to integrate the digital images into synths, the service is nothing short of a success. In its first year since release, on August 20, 2008, approximately 16 million photos have been uploaded and ...

21 August 2009
09:58 GMT

iPhone Getting Retro 8-bit Synthesizer + Sequencer

iPhone developer Yudo has announced the upcoming availability of a retro 8-bit Synthesizer + Sequencer app called 8Bitone. As its dubbing implies, the program is both a synthesizer and sequencer and simulates the sounds of 8-bit Personal Computers and Game Consoles from the '80s. According to the developer, the ...

25 May 2009
10:02 GMT

Dev Releases World's First Modular Synthesizer for iPhone - Jasuto

Developer Chris Wolfe has released one of the coolest apps to ever hit the App Store. Jasuto is a modular synthesizer for iPhone and iPod touch, which, although in somewhat of a beta state, makes synth building fun and easy, while adding unpredictability to the process. As the developer reveals, Jasuto is the first t...

13 May 2009
09:37 GMT

Microsoft Marries Photosynth and Virtual Earth

Microsoft confirmed what it referred to as the natural synergy between Photosynth and Virtual Earth in July 2008. Almost a year later, the Redmond company has made yet another step in the marriage of Photosynth and Virtual Earth. Essentially, by integrating the 3D photo technology into its mapping, location and searc...

7 May 2009
07:05 GMT

Microsoft Photosynthing the Inauguration of the 44th President of the U.S.

Silverlight is not the sole Microsoft technology to get a spot light in prime time as Barack Obama will be sworn-in as the 44th President of the U.S. Come January 20, 2009, the Redmond company will not only make available online videos of the ceremony live and on demand, but will also be Photosynthing the entire even...

19 January 2009
06:40 GMT

Microsoft Updates Photosynth

Photosynth, an incubation project from Microsoft Live Labs, went out of Technology preview stage and was released to web on August 20, 2008. Just eight days later the Redmond company introduced the first update for the service designed to permit end users to upload collections of 2D digital images and create navigabl...

29 August 2008
10:38 GMT

Microsoft Photosynth Is Live with 20 GB of Free Storage

The technology behind Microsoft Photosynth has evolved past the stage of simple Technology Preview and is now available in its final form. Fathered by Blaise Agera y Arcas, who joined Microsoft Live Labs in 2006, Photosynth is designed to permit end users to build navigable three dimensional spaces out of 2D digital phot...

21 August 2008
10:05 GMT

IK Multimedia Engages Moog

You know Moog (even if you're a child, you should know what Moog is! And if you still don't then go and complain to your parents for not telling you!) You know IK Multimedia - or maybe better you'd happen to know their products such as AmpliTube, SonicTank or T-Racks. Well, it looks like the Frankfurt ...

17 April 2007
06:26 GMT

Commodore64 Still Lives: Torben Hansen Signature Soundset for quadraSID Released

C64. Back in '82 it was more than the final frontier: it was THE computer which had THE looks and THE sound. Today it looks that the SID (sound interface device) on the old computer has not been forgotten at all as modeled simulators of the old piece of gear are still to be found. And this isn't by far ever...

13 April 2007
06:23 GMT

Sonata VST Has Been Freed and Now It's Freeware

Sonata is a VST soft-synth for strong single-shot leads and pads. The distinctive character of Sonata makes it adept at strings and lots of simple subtractive sounds, while also specializing in sparkly and glassy mallet sounds, deep basses, and warm and rich mid-range chromatic inventions. This is how SoHa themselv...

11 April 2007
03:58 GMT

Electro/ambient Legend Martin Bowes (Attrition) About How Physical Gear Differs From VST

It's quite obvious that each kind of music has started somewhere, sometime, and has its pioneers. Martin Bowes is the founder of Electro/Ambient early band Attrition. More than 25 years of history lay behind Attrition and its name is synonym to both musical darkness and innovative sound design. Having replaced t...

27 March 2007
07:04 GMT


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