YouTube To Share Ad Revenue With Contributors

YouTube, owned by the unstoppable force that is Google, plans to share advertising revenues from its über-popular site with contributors. The new “affiliate program” will formally bow this Spring. For musicians contributing popular music videos and other music related content. This is great news. Unlike MP3.com’s old model that paid musicians based on chart position from their coffers, YouTube’s stategy is...

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Dave Smith & Roger Linn Use NAMM To Test BoomChik Analog Drum Machine Concept

One of the more interesting “vaporware” items we noticed at the NAMM show was a new Synth/Drum Machine hybrid, dubbed the BoomChik. This new instrument only lived in the imaginations of visitors to Dave Smith Instruments booth at NAMM via a large rendition on a poster. Now we always stop by DSI when at NAMM for two reasons. First, Dave Smith (the mind behind Sequential Circuits), is one of the nicest guys in the gear biz,...

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