Music: Celebrating 20 years of the ‘Humpty Dance’

O-Live: Special summer hours start next week

Starting next Tuesday, June 4th, O-Live will be airing special summer hours twice a week. The new days and times are Tuesday/Thursday from 5-6pm.

Click HERE to check out the show! (Live or not, we always have something for you to check out!)

Or just watch here!

Live Videos by Ustream

Videos: The Future of Musical Instruments

The intersection of music and technology is a wild, fascinating frontier. Ever since the first computer-synthesized sounds were created, people have struggled and succeeded — to varying degrees — to reshape how we think about musical instruments.

Today, thanks to innovators such as Ray Kurzweil and Robert Moog, we have a wider range of digital music machines than the inventors of keyboard instruments could have ever dreamed.

To read more, go HERE.

Watch the video below!

Videos: Check out the “LinnStrument!”

Inventor Roger Linn is famous for creating the drum machine as we know it today, so there’s good reason to be excited about his latest creation. It’s a multi-touch surface not all that dissimilar to an iPad. Take a look at the video here to see for yourself.

The instrument — which Linn calls the “LinnStrument” — can take input from all of your fingers, so you can form chords in addition to sounding individual notes. Each space is pressure sensitive to allow for maximum range of expression. Sliding your finger vertically adjusts the timbre while horizontal motions change the pitch.

Read more about it HERE.

Watch the video below!

O-Live: Gen6 Product Launch Announcement Show!

If you missed it yesterday, here is the archive of the Gen6 product announcement show on O-Live. See Gen6 in all of it’s glory!

Watch below!

Videos: Check out the Gen6 Product Launch Video

The Gen6 lineup includes the Gen6 MiKo QC6, the Gen6 NeKo QX6, the Gen6 MiKo LXD and the Gen6 NeKo XXL. The entire new Gen6 product line offers more power, more sounds and is more affordable.

Check it out below!

Videos: Open Labs user “Mugzy” makes a quick beat!

Jose “MUGZY” Claudio, proud new Open Labs owner, makes a quick beat with the MiKo EC5. Check it out below!

To hear more of Mugzy’s music, check it out on his Myspace page.

Videos: Timbaland’s ‘Morning After’ Ft. SoShy

Videos: Keep Making ‘em Because They Work!

‘I feel like the bitter old man sitting on the porch, saying, ‘Back in my day, music video was the most exciting medium to be involved in,’ ” says Samuel Bayer, who directed, among many other hits of the nineties, Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Blind Melon’s bee-girl video. “MTV was a cultural barometer, stylistically influential. Whether the director was Michel Gondry or Spike Jonze or Stephane Sednaoui or Mark Romanek, people talked about videos in a way that has disappeared.”

On August 1, 1981, MTV audaciously played “Video Killed the Radio Star,” and for a little over two decades, the cable network just about did that, becoming music’s most powerful tastemaker. MTV not only made songs into hits, it launched the careers of directors, many of whom became as identifiable to music fans as Scorsese and Kubrick are to cinéasts. At their high point, these three-minute videos were as ambitious as mini-movies, with budgets that could run as much as $7 million (e.g., Romanek’s “Scream” for Michael and Janet Jackson).

[...]

But then a funny thing happened: In the last couple of years, music videos came back. “It’s a little bit like the evolution of a species,” says Gondry. “Videos found a new niche that’s habitable for them: the Internet.” And, truly, they have evolved, into a much more aggressive species. The online ecosystem is so overpopulated that the more oh-my-God bizarre a video is, the better the chance it will go viral…

To read the rest of the article, go HERE!

Tech Support: Sampling with Reaper on Open Labs Production Stations

Open Labs’ Tech Support Specialist Chris Brown shows ways you can take samples from other songs into your own beats. This video shows how you can use Reaper 3 to do so. Taken from O-Live, Open Labs’ daily webcast. For more info go to www.openlabs.com/webcast or www.openlabs.com/faq.