Bach Technology, a music coding company from German, has unveiled what it calls the successor to the ubiquitous MP3 file format, MusicDNA. (…we’ve heard this before. —Ed.) Bach claims the MusicDNA format contains additional music content as part of the file including lyrics, artwork and tour dates to blog posts, videos and twitter feeds. This...

Livio recently released the Livio Radio Featuring Pandora, Five of FutureMusic’s staffers took the Livio on a TestDrive to see how it worked as stand-alone Internet radio, as well as a music discovery tool…. More information on our Livio Radio...

The braintrust at Ableton/Serato should have debuted this video immediately after their NAMM announcement, but better late than never… More information on Ableton / Serato The...

From Sydney, Australia comes the Misa Digital Guitar, an open source, Linux-based MIDI controller, that utilizes buttons for frets and a multi-touch screen for strumming and sound manipulation.* Guitars by their very nature have limitations. To create sound you need to hit a string, so that the sound at its most intense point is always the beginning of the...

IK Multimedia has upgraded AmpliTube to version 3 with over 160 modeled pieces of vintage and modern gear available in one package. AmpliTube 3 contains over 160 pieces of gear including models from several choice vintage collections and modern-day workhorses. You’ll get 51 individual stompboxes and effects, 31 amplifier, preamp & power sections, 46...