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Guitar Rig 3: Kontrol Edition

Without the Guitar Hero video game franchise, most of us would never feel the rush of turning our virtual amps up to 11, slinging our guitars below the waist, and living the fantasy of rock stardom. For those of you who actually have some skill with a real guitar, however,...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, search option, Native Instruments, Guitar Rig 3, guitar

Product reviews 2008-03-07

Opening act for Gibson's self-tuning guitar

Opening act for Gibson's self-tuning guitarSounds fancyHow lazy would you have to be to use one of these? Really, tuning is not the hardest or most time consuming thing in the world.Now show me a 'robot' that can tune a guitar with a floyd rose and level the bridge and...

Tags: Robots, guitar, Gibson, self-tuning guitar, tuning

Discussion threads 2007-12-04

Additional Resources

Guitar For Beginners Book Software (msi)

Software for beginners guitar, with tabs, make up and print songs, ear traing, fretboard, stave notes, and tabs to play along to and print. Accompanies Guitartab.co.uk Guitar For Beginners Book, or just use as PC software. You can write your own songs in it and save them, as well as...

Tags: Software, Song, Training, Guitartab, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-17

Yamaha Tenori-On music sequencer

Photo gallery:Yamaha Tenori-OnDesigned as an easy-to-use and visually interesting solution to the struggles of composing and performing electronic music, the Yamaha Tenori-On music sequencer ($1,200) is a daring attempt to shake up the dull state of electronic music hardware.DesignThe Tenori-On's deliberately lightweight and tactile design has the whimsical appeal of...

Tags: Yamaha Corp., Yamaha Tenori-On

Product reviews 2008-07-10

MP3 Recorder (msi)

This software is free, and records anything that is playing through your PC speakers, stream songs from the Internet or difficult to convert files (real, QuickTime, and minidisc). It is easy to understand and designed to work well with other music programs, just click record. You can also record live...

Tags: Microphone, Recorder, WAV, MP3, Guitartab, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-07-10

Guitartab Chord Groover (msi)

Save and print your own guitar tab songs with this easy to use chord groover. Edit your own tabs and songs and watch them play on the screen. Real sounds and a two handed animated display to help understand how to play chord changes, with major, minor, and 7ths chords....

Tags: Song, Guitartab, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-10

What was that about cutting music?

Every year it's the same story for too many districts. Do we cut music, art, technology, physical education, or some unsavory combination thereof? Obviously we have to teach the core subjects; we don't get dinged on our standardized music test scores and nobody cares if we have students...

Tags: Music, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Phillips DC912

When it comes to iPod speaker systems, there are at least three criteria for most shoppers: compatibility it needs to work with your particular iPod model; form factor (it needs to fit into a given space, be it a spacious shelf or tiny nightstand); and value (good sound for the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Phillips DC912, Apple iPod

Product reviews 2008-07-03

Philips GoGear SA2825 (2GB)

The GoGear SA2825 is one of Philips' most attractive and compact MP3 players. Available in only one color silver and one capacity (2GB), the GoGear SA2825 ($49) offers a healthy amount of features at an affordable price.DesignMeasuring 1.5 inches square and a slender 0.5 inch thick, the GoGear SA2825 is...

Tags: Digital music, Media players, Digital media, Philips Electronics N.V., GoGear SA2825

Product reviews 2008-07-02

t-rox Studio (msi)

t-rox Studio is music transcription and editing software. Convert your favourite songs to musical notation for melody, guitar, piano, chords, bass and drums. Enrich playback with built-in software synthesizers and sampler. Export multi-track projects to wave files. Edit notes with the feature rich notation editor. Record audio and Midi. Version...

Tags: Software, StarNotation, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-26

Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one

Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Sony HT-CT100

It's a familiar story in consumer electronics: start with a luxurious, expensive, and exclusive product category, and within just a few years, you'll see a sea of imitators delivering the same basic item with more features, less money, and--ideally--better performance. Take single-speaker audio. Once the exclusive domain of Yamaha Digital...

Tags: Sony HT-CT100, speaker, HDMI, subwoofer, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-06-05

Blues MP3 Songs (gadget)

Introducing the Amazon Blues MP3 Song Gadget. The MP3 Song gadget lets you play music samples in the Acoustic Blues, Chicago Blues, Classic Female Vocal Blues, Compilations, Contemporary Blues, Delta Blues, Electric Blues Guitar, Live Recordings, and Modern Rock from Amazons DRM-free catalog of over 5 Million songs. All songs...

Tags: Song, Amazon.com Inc., MP3, Sidebar Gadgets, Digital Music, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-27

Guitar Hero III (dmg)

Fire up the fretboard, crank up the amp and get ready to rock like never before. Guitar Hero III drops you into the spotlight of the largest and most legendary rock concert ever. The star-studded soundtrack includes more than 70 songs including master tracks such as Even Flow, Welcome to...

Tags: Aspyr Media Inc., Keyboards, Professional Development, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Career, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-05-26

When did people forget how to spell? Or complete sentences? Or form thoughts?

I just bought an electric guitar, ostensibly for my 5-year old, who requested one for his birthday, but really as an early graduation and Father's Day gift for myself. I didn't spend much; I found a good deal on an Epiphone "starter pack" and had myself an amp and...

Tags: Standards, Kid, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-20

TuxGuitar (exe)

TuxGuitar is a multitrack guitar tablature editor and player written in Java-SWT, It can open GuitarPro, PowerTab and TablEdit files, and export to standart file-formats such as MIDI, Lilyond and MusicXML. This is a native package compiled with Excelsior JET. Version 1 RC4 includes unspecified updates.

Tags: MIDI, Herac Modern Solutions, TuxGuitar

Software downloads 2008-05-20

Freak helicopter death turns into an anti-iPod story

Freak helicopter death turns into an anti-iPod storyI do not believe that they weretrying to make a macabre joke out of it, but in truth it does once again raise the issue of the serious hearing damage that can be caused by listening to music at the insane level some...

Tags: helicopter, anti-iPod story, helicopter death, Apple iPod, anti-iPod

Discussion threads 2008-05-16

Sony Over-the-Head Ear Bud Headphones, Black/Silver

Although the headphone market continues to burgeon with new models, it can be surprisingly tough to find a decent, fitness-friendly pair. A few companies, such as Sennheiser, have stepped up to the plate with sport-branded earphones, which feature design attributes meant to keep them secured on the head during activity....

Tags: Sony Corp., headphone

Product reviews 2008-05-14

Sennheiser HD 600

When Steve Guttenberg reviewed the Sennheiser HD 650 headphones, he rightfully called them "fit for a king"--while noting that they retail for a correspondingly princely sum of $500. Thankfully, the HD 650s aren't the only model in Sennheiser's high-end audiophile line. The Sennheiser HD 600s can be bought at a...

Tags: Sennheiser, headphone

Product reviews 2008-05-13

Guitar Chords (msi)

Guitar Chords is a Windows software, which have all the basic guitar chords. Features over 40000 chords, nice and simple environment, no confusing graphics or images, numerical representation of chords. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Graphics, Ginsh John, Guitar Chords, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2008-05-05