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StudioBLADE and iKeyDOCK Music Keyboard Workstations Released by Music Computing

We don't get the chance of checking out some professional-grade music-making instruments too often, but when we do, they're usually pretty terrific, and, in fact, that's exactly the case with the two keyboard workstations you'll read about as follows, namely the StudioBLADE and iKeyDOCK, both rele...

10 November 2010
14:41 GMT

ESA and NASA's Road Trip-Instruments for Mars

The scientific instruments for the first ESA-NASA mission on Mars were finally established. The mission is scheduled for 2016 and it will study the martian atmosphere. In its chemical composition scientists discovered methane, ever since 2003, a very important clue as this could mean that there is a possibility of li...

2 August 2010
09:18 GMT

Largest Ocean Survey Network Is 800 Miles Wide

NEPTUNE Canada, a University of Victoria-led initiative, will be the largest cable oceanic observatory ring in the world. Scheduled to be completed in a few months, the construct will allow for gathering oceanic data straight from the source over the next quarter of a century, its creators say. The structure is locat...

9 July 2009
04:46 GMT

GOCE Satellite Launches Today

Dubbed “the most beautiful satellite ever built,” the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite is going to launch today, at 1421 GMT, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, in northwestern Russia. The goal of the mission, which has been continuou...

16 March 2009
05:36 GMT

Harmonix Founder Talks About Real and Virtual Music

The music games genre has quickly risen to dazzling heights in terms of sales, despite the fact that it has only been around for a relatively short amount of time. Thanks to iconic titles like Guitar Hero or Rock Band, people are getting more and more interested in music, making both the gaming and the recording indu...

14 January 2009
11:01 GMT

Music Games Help UK Children Play Real Instruments

The music game genre is really following a high ascending trend these days. It has already surpassed the sports one, and, if you take into account the massive sales predicted for this holiday season, the sky's the limit for titles like Guitar Hero or Rock Band.But, although these games have brought some high qua...

8 December 2008
02:27 GMT

Nickelback Singer Thinks Kids Need to Learn to Play Real Instruments

The music game genre has definitely seen a massive increase in popularity, largely due to the user friendly nature and the cool factor associated with them. Titles such as Guitar Hero or Rock Band are definitely very commonly played in living rooms across the world because they give gamers the chance to see themselve...

26 November 2008
02:37 GMT

Harmonix Says It's Hard to Make Plastic Instruments

The music game genre has really seen a very big ascending trend lately, largely due to the fact that the two major franchises have launched new iterations. Guitar Hero received its World Tour title and Rock Band saw its sequel appear in the middle of September.These music games are well known to almost any type of ga...

25 November 2008
02:15 GMT

Standalone Rock Band Instruments Confirmed!

There are not many things a rock star would rather do than to grab the electric guitar and smash it to pieces, climb the drums like King Kong to smash them, smash the stack of loudspeakers with the microphone and so on... you get the idea: smash things. Of course that many other people would find that disgusting and ...

25 January 2008
05:11 GMT

World's Largest Telescope Will Look at the Sky for the First Time

The world's largest telescope will make its first observations this week, in a "first light" ceremony, after 17 years of construction. Although not fully completed, it will be able to take its first look at the sky on July 13, so its makers are not at all superstitious.Gran Telescopio Canarias, or GTC, sometime...

10 July 2007
11:06 GMT

Europe's Biggest Bang: Musikmesse

You don't need to be a German or even an European to have heard about Musikmesse. It's simply the largest musical manifestation of the old continent and this year it looks like it will be even bigger than before: 200 product presentations, more than 30,000 instruments form 50 countries, 1,600 exhibitors fro...

27 March 2007
04:11 GMT

Vista WaveRT. NOT.

Native Instruments (NI) is a world-famous brand among music producers, be them producers and sound engineers or even artists themselves; they (NI) offer a very broad range of sound technology applications from the smallest to the biggest, covering almost any need one might have (sound-related, obviously). Software an...

26 March 2007
06:56 GMT

Vienna, Once More

Those of you who are a bit deeper into serious music creation surely know the Vienna Symphonic Library: it's one of the world's finest and classy suites of instruments imaginable, the dream of any composer and a delight for the listener at the same time. It's now a happy hour to welcome the release of ...

23 March 2007
11:01 GMT


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