Native Instruments has gone Kompletely Insane!
And it’s not because they built their new website almost entirely in Flash. It’s because they are offering Komplete 5 for the month of July for $399 / 399€, what a bargain!!!

Some mathematicians, who listen to music (almost all of them), believe that the Fibonacci sequence occurs in music. Can you believe that? The use of the Fibonacci system can be seen in Mozart's music, and modern day compositions. The most widely used instrument in music, the piano, displays the use of Fibonacci numbers. For instance, there are 13 notes that separate each octave of 8 notes in a scale. The foundation of a scale is based around the 3rd and the 5th tones. Both pitches are whole tones, which are 2 steps from the 1st note of the scale, also called the root.

Here are some images I've found taken at the Every Sound You Can Imagine exhibit, currently running at New Langton Arts in San Francisco - USA.

Each shows an example of the avant-garde sheet music on display.

In this article, we’re going to look at top ten optimization things you can do to help maximize the performance of Reason, fix various annoying issues, and avoid CPU strain during heaving automation and interaction with other DAWs.

The Euclidean algorithm computes the greatest common divisor of two given integers. It is shown that the structure of the Euclidean algorithm may be used to automatically generate, very efficiently, a large family of rhythms used as timelines in traditional world music.

Interested in joining the first-ever collaborative online orchestra? Professionals and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments are welcome to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra by submitting a video performance of a new piece written for the occasion by the renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun

Waves can be made to be soft and lush harmonics or turned to disturbing waves - the sound can be melodic and beautiful or tense and uneasy. The Harmonic Field is a collaboration work by Arius Blaze and Ben Houston.

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several musicians can be 'playing' live altogether sharing just one reactable.

Because Surface is a flat-top hardware device, the application seen in this demo shows the ability to remix, alter and DJ music from a variety of different sources, as well as customising songs in many different ways.

This is a simple how-to describing how you can assign an Open HiHat so that it stops when a Closed Hat is triggered. You could make this effect using any version of Battery and the same concept applies when using samplers like Kontakt.