iRiver has premiered their new touchscreen Spinn personal media player (PMP) on their Korean website. Looks notwithstanding, its got several nifty features and a new scrolling paradigm that they’ve dubbed spinn control. The sexy Spinn also sports a very attractive graphical user interface. The Spinn features a 3.3-inch, 480 x 272 pixel AMOLED display,...

Yamaha has formed a new division within the company’s Music Marketing Group, dubbed Steinberg North America. It replaces Steinberg Software, formerly a part of the Music Production Department of the Pro Audio & Combo Division. The new department’s responsibilities include marketing Steinberg music production software in the United States and...

Neuenberger has updated JellyFilter to version 3.0. The third incarnation of their free, realtime software synthesizer with filters, effects, envelopes plug-in for Windows now includes a third oscillator, Legato Mode, Lo-Fi “Distortion”, either 12 dB or 24 dB Filter Steepness, Sample and Hold for LFO Modulation, Exponential or Linear Envelopes and a...

M-Audio has teamed with Public Enemy and Obey to host a remix competition. The Public Enemy Remix Contest challenges musicians to create an original remix of an a cappella version of the group’s track, “Harder Than You Think,” from their current album. Chuck D and Johnny Juice of Public Enemy will judge entries uploaded to the M-Audio website,...

Mathew Lane has released DrMS, a spatial processor plug-in for Mac and PC that presents a new way to approach the manipulation of stereo audio. Based on MS (Mid-Side) processing, DrMS splits the stereo signal into four sections rather than the normal two, giving you new levels of control: zoom in, add depth, change width or any combination and more. Each of the...