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April 2000
Creative Technology Q3 profit may rise 34%
Creative is set to reap more profits in the 3rd quarter with their Internet investments, as well as the stabilization of prices for sound and graphic cards. Check out this news at CNET Singapore.
Many of you are enquiring when Live!Ware 4 is coming out. Sad to say, there is still no official word from Creative yet. The current drivers are feeling kinda old aren't they? Do keep sending us your suggestions for the wish list. Many of them have actually been incorporated!
John L. Brunk from The Sound Site sent me a press release about their monthly MIDI Album releases. They have also created a huge SoundFont that caters to all these MIDI tracks. Check out their press release: The Sound Site has taken MIDI Music to a New Level of Excellence with "The Sound Site Best Of" MIDI Albums and SoundFont. The Sound Site Best Of Albums are created in TRUE Surround Sound. All the songs in each album have been tuned so that you can set the volume level on your system once, and enjoy hour upon hour of GREAT listening pleasure. Each individual song in the album is full length with a two (2) second delay between songs. Each album has a total playing time of about one (1) hour, and comes with a complete play list (see the .TXT file in the album .ZIP file). The text file also gives you the start time of each song; total play time and the recommended SBLive Live Ware settings. The Sound Site has released three (3) The Sound Site Best Of Albums at this time.
The Sound Site has plans to Release at Least one (1) NEW Album each Month. The Sound Site has created "The Sound Site Album Bank (63,338k)" a SoundFont made just for these albums (and all future albums). Each instrument has been selected and tuned to become a part of the MIDI Orchestra designed to give you maximum sound quality. The system memory requirement for use of this SoundFont is One Hundred Twenty-Eight (128)
Creative just updated their Windows 2000 FAQ 2 days ago. Some of the issues addressed:
Michael Valera from LAVA.com wrote to tell us that the Creative LAVA! Producer is now available for sale via the web from LAVA.com. Now you can produce your own LAVA! music videos and distribute them on the Internet! Check it out! Music videos, previously the domain of only the industry's elite recording talent, are now a reality for all emerging and independent artists on the Internet with the release of the LAVA! Producer from LAVA.com. LAVA! is the first software solution to offer interactive 3D MusicVideo entertainment on the Internet to the mass market. LAVA! Producer is the first authoring tool from LAVA.com that enables artists to construct infinitely unique and stunning 3D Music Video scenes to accompany their songs without the need for software programming skills. Featuring 3D object replacement and object scaling within LAVA! scenes, integration with the Video Blaster WebCam products from Creative Labs, and an 'MP3/MusicVideo3D' locking option, on-line musicians are empowered to create their own digital song packaging to distribute and promote their music over the Internet. LAVA! allows music listeners to experience their MP3s accompanied by LAVA! MusicVideos - sophisticated environments of 3D objects, textures, images and messages that dynamically evolve in sync with the music. Using a combination of sophisticated audio analysis and 3D graphics acceleration, LAVA! delivers an interactive audio-visual experience to Internet music enthusiasts and provides a cost effective and highly compact vehicle for musicians to promote and distribute with their music over the Internet. The LAVA! Producer offers interactive 3D MusicVideo scene authoring and packaging features, including:
LAVA! Producer is available now for US$29.95 via download from: http://store.lava.com/store/
More flat panel speakers to whet your appetite, today we bring to you a review of the Monsoon MM-700 Flat Panel Speakers, found at Neoseeker. Flat panel speakers that come with an accompanying subwoofer seem to be the next "in" thing nowadays, and this happens to be yet another one of them. Do you want one? The Monsoon line of speakers have been the most highly praised of Flat Panel speakers in the multimedia industry. Manufactured for the Monsoon brand by Sonigistix (based out of Canada), these high tech wonders combine aggressive looks with great performance. Contenders include a smattering of other companies using NXT based flat panel technology, but currently none of those are up to the quality that the Monsoon Planar Focus technology represents - nor do any of them cost nearly as much.
Spanking new MP3 players are in the market, but what if you still want the convenience of popping in an Audio CD? What if this CD isn't an Audio CD, but is a standard ISO9660 Data CD that is packed with MP3s? MP3.COM Hardware reviews the Genica Portable MP3/Audio CD Player and lets us know what a great product it is. The Genica Portable MP3/Audio CD Player has one feature that sets it apart from its competition: it exists. That fact alone makes this device a worthwhile buy compared to such vaporware as the PineUSA CD/MP3 player and the MamboX (though they claim they will ship the week of April 17, 2000). Considering it is a first-generation CD/MP3 player, it works well and has some extra nifty features. It plays either ISO 9660 data CDs filled with MP3s or regular audio CDs.
Got a walkman sitting at home and don't know what to do with it now that you're not using cassette tapes any more? Or do you have a cassette player in your car stereo which you never used before since the coming of the CD player? Why not give it a new life by adding the Rome MP3 Player by Unitech Electronics to it? Never heard of it? There is a MP3.COM review on it so go take a look! CNET Consumer Electronics also wrote a review on it, though they didn't seem too happy about it, comparing it with other MP3 players that have larger storage memory. Although the Rome MP3 Player only comes with 32Mb RAM, its a good addition to your "legacy" devices. Looks like a cassette, weighs about as much as a cassette, plays like a cassette, but not a cassette: It's the Rome MP3 Player, an innovative portable device that plays MP3s through just about any tape player. Simply upload tracks onto the Rome through a parallel port cable using the software provided. Then, just like you would insert a cassette, pop the Rome into your car, Walkman or home stereo and suddenly they become MP3 players. It makes the $249 price seem like a bit more of a bargain.
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