This software has apparently been in use in computer music for over fifteen years, and used by performers, composers, artists, teachers, and students all over the world. As they put it on the web site “Max/MSP is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams”, which is a bit grandiose for my taste.

More simply put, Max/MSP is a “graphical programming environment”, which means you can develop your own music generation and treatment software using a visual representation of the tools, connecting them together with patch cords on screen to make them talk to each other. This is really cool by the way! Not to mention very powerful.

The basic environment includes all the basic MIDI, control, user interface, and timing tools. That is the Max part of the suite. On top of Max you can build hundreds of other objects, including the two powerful collections of objects you can buy with Max, first of which is MSP, a collection of audio objects that facilitate everything from interactive filter design to direct to hard disk recording. The other set of objects is Jitter, a set of objects optimized for manipulating video and 3D graphics.

Yes it’s very geeky and techie, BUT it is VERY powerful. Computer driven music doesn’t get more leading edge than this.

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First we had the podsafe music network, Podshow now we have this. Music which is from unsigned bands which is licensed especially for podcasting. But the trend is growing. Most music producers are happy with the idea that in order to sell music you have to give lots away. It seems that the days of bloated greedy record companies are numbered. And not very big numbers either…

File sharing and MP3 network MP34U is trying hard to be an alternative to the traditional music business and succeeding to a certain extent. You’ve got signed and unsigned bands side by side, ratings and chart positions, well known and less well known artists. The “sources” look for and find the best free and legal MP3s out there on the Net. These countless billions (well lots anyway) are then voted on, and you get the results. So you know that the stuff which rises to the top is popular. It might even be good, the odds are with you on that one.

Visit the asylum here.

I found a really cool resource on the web, which if you are a fan of old blues masters is actually something of a gold mine. Lots of the recordings of the old blues musicians have fallen into the public domain, being really old and all that. The problem with media that has fallen into the public domain is that it is pretty hard to find.

Luckily there is a new kind of movement on the Net where clever and resourceful people find out stuff which is public domain now and collect it together. This is one such resource.

Here you can find such brilliant old stuff as Leadbelly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”, Blind Willie Johnson singing “Praise God I’m Satisfied”, and Lottie Kimbough with “Wayward Girl Blues”. Oh yeah and I really love Memphis Minnie’s “Where is My Good Man At?”. Very cool.

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If you want to change the way you play games and pull some really cool pranks on your friends, MorphVOX may come in handy. MorphVOX Junior is free voice changer software that will modify your voice to match your personality. You can sound like a man, woman, or little folk. Built-in voices and sound effects make this voice changer so convenient to use.

It is optimized for online games, but is also great for prank calling friends via instant messaging and VoIP. And it’s just about voices; it can send out car screeches and drum rolls with a push of a key, mouse or joystick button.

MorphVOX is a voice changing application for adding fun to online communication. If as a regular gamer, you have spent many hours grooming your online character to look a certain way, you now have the opportunity to change your voice to match. 

Get a whole new chatting experience, IM voice chatters, change your voice to disguise your age, gender or identity. The cool thing about it is you can change your voice with the available themed voices or create your own. Additional voice changing packs, sound effects, and skins can be easily added. 

MorphVOX is available in two versions, MorphVOX JUNIOR [free] and the Full featured MORPHVOX which you must pay for. 

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The first version of the freeware, MyTunesRSS1.0 was released April 2 2006. Since then it has undergone a series of updates, a new updated version was just released a couple of days ago, November 8 to be precise; MyTunesRSS 2.3.4 

MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library over a local network or even the Internet. You can access your music from all over the world using a simple web browser. The user interface lets you search for titles or browse your whole library by album or artist. You can access your iTunes playlists or create new ones directly in MyTunesRSS. 

MyTunesRSS includes an embedded Tomcat server that allows you to access the iTunes library with any web browser. You can create an RSS feed from the results. Any device capable of receiving RSS feeds can get the songs from your iTunes library through the feed. For example, the Playstation Portable can play songs from your iTunes library over WLAN with this application. 

Latest changes in the new updated version, 2.3.4 include: 

• Prevent MyTunesRSS from being started more than once 
• Initial “iTunes Music Library.xml” search can be cancelled 
• ZIP archives with multiple tracks contain a complete M3U playlist 
• Bug fixes 

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NOTE: MyTunesRSS is pure Java, so you can only run it on any platform supporting Java Runtime 1.5 and iTunes. 

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