Crossfader (a sister site of Channel 9's) starts up

Crossfader is up now: Crossfader is an online community for the global electronic artist. http://www.crossfader.com/

Done by the guy down the hall from us, Eric Schmidt. Lots of fun ahead we hear. If you're a musician. Spread the word. Word. Out.

The logo reminds me of Longhorn.

Excellent. Nice to see another Channel 9-style site. First thing I did was go find their feeds (hard to notice - under "Syndication"), and add them to my "Short List" in Bloglines.

Thanks for the heads up, Robert!

Crossfader goes Live!

 

Cool new Community Server site  Crossfader a new ASP.Net music community site running on Community Server has gone live, so check-it out and sign-up today!

posted @ 12:15 PM

My brother from another mother DJ Spooky is using Sonar which will run about $500 retail..

Sound Forge is also pretty high-end, but if you are looking to get started and need something more, ahem, economical you need not despair.

For simple beats and loops I use DirectMusic Producer which is free with the DirectX SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6e938a6e-b383-466b-a3ee-5a655bf5db8c&displaylang=en

Sony also has a free 8-track edition of Acid (Acid XPress) as well as a huge library of sample wav's and community contributed tracks:
http://www.acidplanet.com/

But if you are feeling especially slothful, Rockstar Games has created a spiff little flash mixer, the Beaterator, with uploadable mp3 files, an effects board, pitch/bpm control, and 2-octave keyboard that functions right in the ole web browser. Once mixed, a file can be exported to mp3 and downloaded!
http://www.beaterator.com/

ok,
aq

I love seeing creative people doing stuff with standard PCs. There's so much snobyness among musicians about the type of equipment/software/OS they use. I hope this site helps combat this attitude.

Sonar is nice stuff. I tried out Sonar 4 recently after hiving gotten used to version 3 and it's nice. They didn't mess it up like some companies do when they release a new version.
I' think I'm gonna try the demo of Abelton Live. The video on crossfader looked impressive.

c9 rocks

crossfader reminds me of Flash and Media sites

Thats all great if you like the internet to be passive like tv duh entertainment

i like books / text / information / community communication  ...yes even typing! (2 fingers)

video and flash =  potato

( * now if i could watch the internet on tv to see that stuff - different story - bring on the media no prob!) * heck id blow a week just watching all the c9 videos...cause its TV! im on the couch.. NO TYPING

AQ wrote:

My brother from another mother DJ Spooky is using Sonar which will run about $500 retail..

Sound Forge is also pretty high-end, but if you are looking to get started and need something more, ahem, economical you need not despair.

...

FLStudio 5 foreve' foo'. My all time favourite music authoring tool.

It's not too expensive, and you get all the following versions for free if you purchase it online through their e-store. (That means you get FLStudio 6, 7, 8 ... For free.) Besides, it's a VST/i client, so you get loads of plugins for it.

Anyways, Crossfader is cool. I can't wait for more people to join in. That DJ Spooky fellow isn't too bad, I quite like his stuff.