Monkeyclaus» Technology http://www.monkeyclaus.org Virginia Recording Studio, Production Company, Recording Collective, Digital Downloads Distributor Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:42:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Make Your Own iPhone Ringtone – With This Software http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/make-your-own-iphone-ringtone-with-this-software/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/make-your-own-iphone-ringtone-with-this-software/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:35:52 +0000 abel http://www.monkeyclaus.org/?p=2587 iPhone Ringtone Maker 1.6.0.1



About iPhone Ringtone Maker
Professional audio editing software to help you convert various popular audio formats such as MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, AC3, etc. and video formats including MP4, MPG, MPEG, VOB, AVI and more. It directly connects with iTunes Library, offers easy trim function with waveform and fad in/ out effect for the ringtone.

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Features:
- Support Various Popular Formats (MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, AC3, etc);
- Support Various Video Formats (MP4, MPG, MPEG, VOB, AVI, etc);
- Directly Connect with iTunes Library;
- Offer Trim Function to Make Ringtone;
- Add Fade in & Fade out Effect according to your need;
- Many more features.

What’s New in this Version
- Broke 60s time limit for iPhone ringtone

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New Old – 10 Channel Mixer Coming to Monkeyclaus Soon ! http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/new-old-10-cannel-mixer-coming-to-monkeyclaus-soon/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/new-old-10-cannel-mixer-coming-to-monkeyclaus-soon/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:23:40 +0000 abel http://www.monkeyclaus.org/?p=2416 Check out these pictures of the almost complete RCA/API 10 Channel Mixer we are going to install in our studio .

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This will Be Fun !

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Make Your own iPhone App. to Sell your Merch ! http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/make-your-own-iphone-app-to-sell-your-merch/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/make-your-own-iphone-app-to-sell-your-merch/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:39:53 +0000 abel http://www.monkeyclaus.org/?p=2374 Create, launch, and manage your own custom iPhone application through MobBase.com

Custom design your iPhone app and share music, photos, videos, tweets, gig dates, ticket sales, merchandise and links to buy your music on iTunes with your fans. For as little as $.50 a day, MobBase gives you a mobile, interactive fan club, storefront, merchandise table, and more.

Your iPhone app is highly customizable and can have your unique image, look, and feel — you pick and choose the content you offer to fans, arrange the features however you like, upload background and button images, and select color themes. And, because MobBase is built on an advanced content management system, it’s easy to add, manage and update content and design in real-time, whenever the mood strikes.

No its not FREE , but it does sound FUN !

Click Here to get started

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Stickam iPhone app released! Watch any show and chat live with any user from your iPhone http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/stickam-iphone-app-released-watch-any-show-and-chat-live-with-any-user-from-your-iphone/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/stickam-iphone-app-released-watch-any-show-and-chat-live-with-any-user-from-your-iphone/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:23:38 +0000 abel http://www.monkeyclaus.org/?p=2291 Now you can enjoy all of the great entertainment on Stickam when you're on the go! The Stickam iPhone app allows you to watch any live Stickam stream and join the interactive chat rooms. Find a show or your friends and chat live from your iPhone. You will never miss an opportunity to interact with a live stream from your favorite celebrities, bands, live podcasts, top radio stations, or TV shows ever again. Features:

* View featured shows
* View popular live shows and social users of Stickam
* View your live friends
* Search for live users
* Chat with live users
* Landscape and portrait viewing mode supported
* Watch with 3G and Wifi

Download the APP HERE

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Sony Soundville http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/sony-soundville/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/sony-soundville/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:25:13 +0000 abel http://www.monkeyclaus.org/?p=1879 Check out Sony Corporations newest promotion. Dont you want to live in Soundville ? or at least play your favorite records there.

Soundville, the latest ad campaign from Sony, is less of a traditional commercial and more of an acoustic art experiment. Juan Cabral of London-based ad firm Fallon transformed the sleepy Icelandic village of Seydisfjordur into quite possibly the world's largest sound system, including, amidst what appear to be hundreds of tweeters (the speaker kind) and woofers, a 20-foot tower of speakers. For three days, nonstop music -- from dance to folk to ambient -- pulsated through the town as Cabral's film crew recorded the residents' reactions. Since the town has a population of only 400 in winter and almost no traffic, Cabral (who also helmed a beautiful Bravia bouncing ball spot) was able "to create a pure sound experience" that powerfully reverberates off the mountains and fjords.Soundville, the latest ad campaign from Sony, is less of a traditional commercial and more of an acoustic art experiment. Juan Cabral of London-based ad firm Fallon transformed the sleepy Icelandic village of Seydisfjordur into quite possibly the world's largest sound system, including, amidst what appear to be hundreds of tweeters (the speaker kind) and woofers, a 20-foot tower of speakers. For three days, nonstop music -- from dance to folk to ambient -- pulsated through the town as Cabral's film crew recorded the residents' reactions. Since the town has a population of only 400 in winter and almost no traffic, Cabral (who also helmed a beautiful Bravia bouncing ball spot) was able "to create a pure sound experience" that powerfully reverberates off the mountains and fjords.
by Matthew Zuras

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API/RCA – Console Renovation Pics 2 http://www.monkeyclaus.org/culture/apirca-console-renovation-pics-2/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/culture/apirca-console-renovation-pics-2/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:51:49 +0000 abel http://www.monkeyclaus.org/?p=681 We sound tested the pre-amp modules this last weekend. Aaron made a rig to slip the cards into and wire them up via alligator clips. They sound very interesting , a tone that we do not yet have in our tools. The sound has a nice thick and defined mid-range . The overall signal seems to be pretty even right off the unit. There is an old quality to the amps , makes me want to push some rocking drums through them cranked and get some sweet harmonic distortion in the recording.

A few features will include :

- inserts between every gain stage
- a custom patch bay configuration
- a magic Bleed option (between channels)
- stereo and mono bussing
- stereo and mono effects send and return
- 10 channels of mic/line amplification
- and original lighting in the faders

Check out these pics of the mixing board in progress :

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RCA/API – BC100 Console Parts http://www.monkeyclaus.org/culture/rcaapi-bc100-console-parts/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/culture/rcaapi-bc100-console-parts/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:56:14 +0000 abel http://www.monkeyclaus.org/?p=616 Here are some pictures of our RCA BC100 console as it came to us. We did put all the modules and stuff back together , but had a hard time finding documentation , so the console waited for about a year until we finally decided to go ahead and re-model the whole thing and make it work for us at Monkeyclaus.

You can see all the modules something like this is made of , this is partly what has inspired our own studio layout (modularity), and sparks our imagination as to all the possibilities of signal paths and units that could be made.

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Again with the lighter side… http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/again-with-the-lighter-side/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/again-with-the-lighter-side/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:23:00 +0000 vijith http://www.monkeyclaus.org/blog/?p=69 If we're lucky, maybe Abel will chime in and let us know if he has this problem.

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Ownership http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/ownership/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/ownership/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:42:47 +0000 vijith http://www.monkeyclaus.org/blog/?p=67 ownership deed

In addition to a hysterical design concept, graphpaper.com has a cool post by Chris Fahey on the concept of ownership in the media world.

Slightly restated and abstracted, the point might be that impending total internet connectivity might provide an opportunity for content owners to reclaim some degree of control, because local files will be rendered as irrelevant as the CD was five to ten years back. To put it another way, if CDs were typewriters and MP3s were Microsoft Word documents, Imeem and Last.fm and other streaming services could become the Google Docs of music -- a powerful, compelling online interface to the content that makes you forget that you don't actually control the files containing it.

Down in the comments, Fahey suggests that a heretofore unforeseen level of innovation is called for.

Offering cool ways to just browse a dumb database, which iTunes is and which last.fm largely is, too, won’t be enough.

I'm not so sure I agree with that, simply because I can't ever say I've seen it done. The closest I've seen online is the AllMusic Guide, which is great, but also offers database services for the music industry and as a result contains very little by way of user interaction and tends to be a little clinical at times since it's often used as a means of professional verification by people active within the industry. What's more, a brief (as in, one night when I happened to log on during a testing period) foray into audio has been largely abandoned -- which is a travesty, if you ask me -- and they've still never recovered from the absurd interface they skinned the site with six or seven years back, which typically requires half a dozen clicks, each with a page reload, to get to the information you want.

The closest I've seen in a local application is the CoverFlow function in iTunes, but at the end of the day that's all glitz and very little substance. Smart Playlists are the closest thing we've seen to a functional evolution, but in iTunes the query logic is fantastically dumbed down. Even in other more advanced incarnations, such as the Media Views available in Winamp, the available metadata fields are limited and populating them takes more time than most people have. That is, instead of having to manually add "Greenwich Village Folk" to the comment field of every qualifying MP3 in my collection, I'd like an application that can query AllMusic and connect Bob Dylan to Phil Ochs without requiring each user to separately tag every individual file -- especially since musicians are just people, and their relationships are constantly changing just like anybody else's (who is the lead singer of Van Halen this week?).

For your daily dose of silver lining, at least the Music Genome Project should offer a whole lot of potential. It seems to be working well for Pandora so far -- I've heard nothing but rave reviews.

I am also not so sure about the title he gave the post: "R.I.P.: Owning Music (1880-2008)." I think he's on the right track, and a few of the bleeding-edge industry players are as well, but it's a little premature to pronounce media ownership dead when the alternative he's so excited about doesn't yet exist.

But let's get back on topic -- back in 2001 or so, I was naive enough to write off the iPod simply because I was expecting that the next generation of portable media player would be a "thin client" that would connect over the internet to my home music collection instead of redundantly carrying the files along with it on a hard drive. So far we still haven't really departed from that model.

As Fahey points out, Rhapsody was a step in the right direction, and indeed I was very excited about it in the early days. The deal breaker for me was that a lot of the music I wanted -- and already had on my hard drive -- was not present on Rhapsody, and even though they used a desktop application for delivery, they didn't allow you to mix local MP3s with Rhapsody streams in the program's playlists. This meant that every listening session had to consist exclusively of either Rhapsody streams (via their player) or local files (via Winamp). I didn't think this was a cognitively coherent way to approach music, and it was enough of an annoyance to send me back to Kazaa.

My anti-Pod ideal music player from ages ago was essentially a "big jukebox in the sky" with minimal local hardware and an awesome and personalized music library stored remotely. I was mostly trying to keep my pants pockets light, but Fahey is essentially extending that same concept to all interactions with music.

The sad thing, I think, is that I'm still waiting after all these years for something even remotely approaching the "jukebox in the sky". I'm a bit closer with the media server I am running out of Winamp, but there's still a long way to go.

If only somebody made a well-designed portable music player with internet connectivity...

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iPhone guitar http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/iphone-guitar/ http://www.monkeyclaus.org/technology/iphone-guitar/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:54:34 +0000 vijith http://www.monkeyclaus.org/blog/?p=66 Monkeyclaus is currently working to find the shortest distance between the microphone and the iPhone, but we have to admit that this guy may have us beat.

Keep in mind that although the SDK was released in early March, the iPhone still is not an open platform for custom applications like this one. When that happens -- the current timetable has it happening in June -- it's going to be madness.

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