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Neil Young: Steve Jobs's death hindered Apple's high-def music efforts

by Steven Sande (Feb 1st, 2012)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honoree Neil Young has been focusing on high-definition music for some time. At the News Corp. D: Dive Into Media event yesterday, Young said that he had been in discussions with Apple personnel -- including the late ...

SRS takes the iWow universal at Macworld | iWorld 2012

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2012)

SRS Labs hosted a booth at Macworld | iWorld 2012 last week for two main reasons. First, the company wanted to show off the iPad version of MyTunes, its music player app that incorporates the company's patented sound enhancement algorithm. Second, ...

New Flaming Lips song features Siri on vocals

by Chris Rawson (Jan 30th, 2012)

Siri has been getting around lately. When she's not guest starring on popular sitcoms, she's apparently lending her vocal talents to the music scene. The Flaming Lips have produced an experimental song (embedded below) called "Now I Understand," ...

Blue brings the Mikey Digital and Spark Digital to Macworld | iWorld 2012

by Mike Schramm (Jan 28th, 2012)

Blue Microphones are a favorite of ours around here at TUAW. We've used Blue's mics to record countless streams and podcasts, and most of our staffers have bought one or more with their own cash before. So it was nice to see them again at Macworld ...

Reminder: Last chance to Remix & WIN

by Matt Tinsley (Jan 26th, 2012)

Our Remix and WIN competition, with Olivia Broadfield, Propellerhead and SoundCloud, closes on the 31st January 2012, which means you've just a few days left to submit your remix of Olivia's song 'Say.' We've had loads of entries already (some of ...

Behringer mixers hold iPad inside

by Mike Schramm (Jan 21st, 2012)

The audio mixer company Behringer has announced three new units set for release, and this company has borrowed a little bit of hardware from Apple: they use the iPad as an interface. As you can see above, the new Behringer mixers make full use of ...

iRig Pre makes iOS device a pre-amp

by Steven Sande (Jan 20th, 2012)

IK Multimedia is always coming out with new ways for musicians to use their iOS devices to assist in performing or recording. Now the company has introduced the iRig PRE, a mic preamp designed to let you use standard XLR mics with your iPhone or ...

Smule's Ge Wang plays Magic Guitar for us at CES

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

We got to sit down for a quick chat with Smule's own Dr. Ge Wang at CES in Las Vegas last week, and the result is the video below. Not only is the co-founder overseeing Smule's musical experiences for mobile devices (and its recent merger with ...

Slacker Radio tries to break through a flooded streaming music market

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

One of our final meetings at CES last week was with Slacker Radio's VP of Marketing, Jonathan Sasse, who sat down in a Las Vegas lobby restaurant to tell us what his company has been up to lately. Slacker Radio is one of the many streaming radio ...

Hands on with Propellerhead's Reason 6 and Balance interface

by Matt Tinsley (Jan 13th, 2012)

I've always been curious about Propellerhead's Reason software, but since I'm not really an electronic music-making enthusiast, and the fact that up until more recently Reason had no audio recording capabilities, I've always turned to other ...

iFrogz releases Boost speaker, uses 'near field audio' to boost sound

by Mike Schramm (Jan 12th, 2012)

iFrogz was back at CES this year. Last year, most of its new products were iPhone and iPad cases, but this year the company is branching out. In addition to a USB gaming headset called the Caliber (it vibrates when loud sounds are played, ...

Algoriddim's Mac App of the Year djay 4 trades iOS and Mac features

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2012)

Algoriddim is back in a booth at CES 2012 this week in Las Vegas, and TUAW stopped by to chat with the company as well as congratulate them on winning Mac App of the Year for its turntable music app, djay 4. We got to see the app early before it ...

Shazam Player brings lyrics support and more to iOS

by Chris Rawson (Jan 11th, 2012)

The iPhone's default Music app already has lyrics support built in, but you have to fetch the lyrics yourself; songs sold on the iTunes Store still don't include lyrics after all these years. Shazam, makers of the well-known app that will identify ...