General Computing

Recordare Announces MusicXML 2.0 

Internet music software and publishing company Recordare has announced version 2.0 of its MusicXML sheet music file format....

Should You Buy an Intel Mac? 

By Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus

Unless you've been living on the moon for the past year, you know that Apple (www.apple.com) has abandoned PowerPC processors and is replacing them with...

Better Safe Than Sorry 

By Mike Levine

Imagine spending an entire week working on a critically important music project. You toil day and night orchestrating, programming, and recording. You...

Tracking the Big Cats 

By Jim Bates

With the introduction of Jaguar, OS X became the first Macintosh operating system to incorporate audio and MIDI at the system level. OS X's Core Audio...

Two Heads Are Better Than One 

By Thad Brown

Older, slower computers are still useful as virtual-instrument hosts, file servers, CD burners, and office machines. Electronic Musician takes a look at those tasks as well as how to time-synchronize, network, and remote control multiple computers in your studio. ...