Get Fruity with FL Studio

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Akai MPC2000XL. E-mu SP-1200. These are the electronic drum machines used to create the majority of classic Hip-Hop records from the late ’80s to mid-’90s, which is considered as the genre’s “golden era.” Many aspiring producers of the new millennium felt pressured to use the same production […]

Build It: The Ultimate Adobe CS4 Machine

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Adobe Creative Suite 4 has been out for a while, and it’s been widely praised, not the least by us. It’s a great piece of software—provided you’ve got the hardware to run it. That got me thinking: If money were no object, what would the ultimate CS4 system be? Well, by […]

Ableton Live Suite 8.0 Now Shipping!

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Ableton Suite is the XL version of Ableton Live. Suite 8 gives you all of the features in Live8 plus SOUND, with a radically new Library packed with beautiful new sounds and a wealth of useful resources. Suite 8 contains 10 Ableton instruments including synths, a sampler, electric and acoustic drums, […]

Ableton Live 8.0 Now Shipping!

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Ableton Live 8 provides a comprehensive environment for writing, producing and performing music plus a basic sound set. Ableton Live 8 is available at an academic discount price of $329.

lifehacker’s Five Best Image Editing Tools

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Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom are two of the five contenders for the crown of Best Image Editor.

Photoshop CS4 Extended is available at an academic discount price of $299.

Photoshop Lightroom 2 is available at an academic discount price of $98.

MLB.com chooses Flash

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Q: What did you see in Flash that impressed you? Bowman: You see several things. You see a high-grade product that’s in some form on 99 percent of the browsers. You’ve got something that’s got mass usage. Secondly you see with Adobe a company committed to the customer experience in video […]

Recreating Dealey Plaza for Watchmen

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The shot Snyder wanted starts with Kennedy’s motorcade arriving, with the camera dollying around. “It’s a God’s eye view because you actually see Zapruder filming the scene,” Hirota says. “Then you see the impact of the shot, and the camera pans around and you see the limo speed away.” Snyder’s twist on […]

Make Digital Photos Look Like Film B&W With Nik Software Silver EFX Pro

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Even in this digital age, black and white photography remains a touchstone of the art. No wonder every imaging program has simple tools to convert color images to grayscale. However, none of those utilities gave us the kind of accessible creative control over quality, grain, tonality, and dynamic range that we used […]

Create Eye Catching Controls with Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression 2

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When you are accustomed to writing code with Microsoft Visual Studio and you move to a lesser tool, it can tend to de-motivate you. Despite the fact that I thought Flash had great potential, I walked away. It hurt, too, because I really wanted to do something cool with the timeline. My […]

Free particleView viewer for particleIllusion

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particleView (previously called “ShowIEL”) is the library viewer for particleIllusion library files. With it you can load any particleIllusion emitter library and see the particles in an animated OpenGL window. If you’re familiar with particleIllusion, it’s like having only the preview window — fun stuff, and a great way to preview […]