After a bit of a cock up last week which was completely Simon’s fault (and he’s very very sorry about it) Simon does a
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Tag: music
Review – Dorico Pro 4
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Steinberg’s Dorico family is the world’s leading music notation software for composers, arrangers, orchestrators, educators, performers… musicians of almost any
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Essential Apple Podcast 179: A musical interlude: feat. Jeff Gamet
Recorded 8th June 2020 This week another unstructured show as Mark, Nick, Jim and I are joined by Jeff Gamet. To be honest we
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Dorico Pro 3 – Review
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Dorico is the highly successful music notation software from Steinberg, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha, one of the world’s
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SleepPhones Effortless – Review
SleepPhones EffortlessSleepPhones $149.95 US SleepPhones Effortless are Bluetooth enabled headphones that are inside a soft fabric headband. Features include a rechargeable battery up to
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Dorico Pro 2 – Review
Mark Sealey, 2018-06-22 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH A major new version of Steinberg’s advanced music notation software Dorico was released last month. Dorico Pro
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iLoud Micro Monitor – Review
iLoud Micro Monitor IK Multimedia $299.99 U.S. iLoud Micro Monitor are a pair of reference studio speakers also known as monitors. Monitors are generally
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SoundPEATS Wireless Earbuds – Review
SoundPEATS Wireless Earbuds SoundPeats $28.99 U.S. SoundPEATS Earbuds are Bluetooth headphones that feature magnetic earphones ends, plus mic and inline volume with playback
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LectroFan Kinder – Review
LectroFan Kinder Adaptive Sound Technologies Inc. $79.95 The LectroFan Kinder is a sound and light machine for children. Using an iOS or Android app,
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Edifier MP 200 Speaker – Review
Edifier MP 200 Speaker Edifier $34.99 The Edifier MP 200 is a small splash proof and dust proof Bluetooth speaker. It has an
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Dorico – Review
Dorico music notation software from Steinberg Price: $559.99; discounts of 50% (71% for education) for cross-grades from Sibelius, Finale, Notion available Until October last year
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Vienna Ensemble Pro 6 – Review
Version 6 of Vienna Ensemble Pro (VEP 6) has just been released. We take a look to see what’s new and how well the product works as part of a highly sophisticated audio and music studio environment.
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Four Audio-Technica Bluetooth sets – Review
It’s not often we have the opportunity to test a range of headphones across any given manufacturer’s range. For this group test we received four sets. All model names are prefixed ATH- to identify them as Audio-Technica products, but omitted here for improved readability. Clockwise starting in the top left of the photo they are:
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Audio Hijack – User Report Review
Audio Hijack in its most basic sense is a way to capture audio from your Mac. If you want to record audio from a microphone, a website or an application, you can do that and a whole lot more. It looks so simple to use yet can also do many complex and rewarding audio tasks.
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AT-LP120-USB Turntable – Review
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, when the album, or LP, was the physical musical format. During those years, and beyond, I accumulated hundreds of albums and 45s, which are smaller versions of albums, usually containing one song on either side and played at a faster speed.
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iHome Go+ Grip Bluetooth Speaker – Review
The iHome Go+ Grip Bluetooth Speaker is a lightweight, portable speaker that has become my go-to Bluetooth speaker. At under $40, it should be your go-to speaker, too.
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Sibelius 8 – Review
Jean Sibelius, the 150th anniversary of whose birth we celebrate this year (he lived from 1865 to 1957), officially composed only seven symphonies. Certainly only seven were published. Yet fragments of an 8th do exist; and indeed were performed in 2011 barely three minutes long, though. Sibelius certainly withdrew and tried to suppress his 8th.
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SmartScore NoteReader – Review
Optical Character Reading (OCR) software is tricky. Although its come a long way from the unreliable and inaccurate offerings of the 1980s (when it first became available for personal computers) if it doesn’t present you with a usable digital representation of your (scanned) hard copy which is also 99% accurate, it really has little more than curiosity value.
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Sibelius 7.5 – Review
Avid has received a lot of criticism from Sibelius users of late. Two years ago the Finsbury Park, London, HQ of the Sibelius development team was closed, many developers laid off, and the suites coding and maintenance operation relocated to the Ukraine. Rumors of serious financial trouble circulated and the company’s Vice President, CFO and CTO resigned. Yet the market-leading score-writing software did not disappear as some both predicted and feared. In fact, a new version has recently been released; here Sibelius 7.5.1 (a significant further milestone release for bug fixes and maintenance) is examined. Its found to be as good as ever.
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Seagate Central Shared Storage Device – Review
As reported on this site in some of my reviews over the last few years, I’m a huge fan of NAS (Network Attached Storage) technology. At present, I own a large RAID 5 NAS, with a slave unit to back up the first unit. Why? I have this much storage to support my media server. All my movies, TV shows, music, etc., are stored on my NAS, and its manufacturer keeps adding interesting new tools to keep their devices up to date, such as cloud support (the buzzword du jour), making it easy to connect to my NAS from anywhere in the world.
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