An upgrade to Steinberg’s Cubase music production system will be available as a free download in August. The update will be for Cubase SX and Cubase SL. Steinberg say there are more than 50 new features in the 3.1 release. This includes better integration with Yamaha hardware, more sound encoding support, and the usual editing tweaks and bells and whisltes. (more…)

Sometimes you hear (or write) a piece of music and think, “it’s good, but it just seems to lack a certain something.” Well, finally there is a clever piece of audio engineering that can add that “certain something” to your music! (more…)

If you have difficulty maintaining a musical idea for the length of an entire song, why not consider a career as a ringtone composer? The New York Times reports that artists are composing short pieces for mobile phone ringtones. (more…)

Remix Fight is an online community that has bi-monthly remix competitions. Download a track in the form of a bunch of loops, remix it and submit your remix for judging by the community. (more…)

Pocket Lint gave quite a positive review to the StikAx. However, this was mostly because they liked the TrakAx software that comes with it — they thought the controller itself didn’t really add much to the package. (more…)

“Mixing decent tunes with this is about as easy as mixing cement with a toothpick.” (more…)

The Ministry of Sound StikAx is a handheld controller for live mixing of music and video. The concept is similar to the music mixing games available for various game consoles, except that it looks like a retro sci-fi ray gun. It’s obviously not a serious musician’s tool, but would be fun to have lying around. It might even be useful for musical brainstorming (more…)