TASCAM Marketing Manager Jeff Laity confirmed today on an industry news site that Tascam has ceased development of GIGASTUDIO and GIGASTUDIO related products as of July 21. Sales and support for the products will continue through December 31, 2008
Posted July 22, 2008
TASCAM Marketing Manager Jeff Laity confirmed today on an industry news site that Tascam has ceased development of GIGASTUDIO and GIGASTUDIO related products as of July 21. Sales and support for the products will continue through December 31, 2008
Posted July 21, 2008
Nominations for the 60th Primetime Emmy® Awards, covering the period of June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008, were announced by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Posted July 21, 2008
Game music industry website Music4Games.Net is reporting that Gears of War 2 Lead Designer Cliff Bleszinski has revealed at E3 that composer Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is scoring the music for Gears of War 2, the forthcoming blockbuster sequel third person shooter developed by Epic Games
Posted July 21, 2008
SONiVOX has announced the development of their in-house music instrument (MI) software development team
Posted July 16, 2008
Veteran Los Angeles music attorney Brian Lee Corber has announced the launch of his website and the availability of document and contract review and other services available for instant purchase via the Internet.
Posted July 16, 2008
Audio Impressions will conduct a public preview of the release version of the company’s much-awaited DVZ Strings virtual instruments and 70-piece orchestral string library at the audioMIDI.com Film & TV Composition Clinic on July 26.
Posted July 21, 2008
According to Greenspan Artist Management, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame has been signed to score Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, a drama comedy starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings as two teenagers who tries to locate the venue of their favorite band’s secret show in New York. Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas) directs for release [...]
Posted July 21, 2008
Ryan Shore, the composer of the recent scores for Numb, The Girl Next Door and Prime, has several new films coming up. He is doing the music for Lower Learning, a comedy about what is possibly the worst elementary school ever, starring Jason Biggs and Eva Longoria Parker, directed by Mark Lafferty. Ambush Entertainment produces [...]
Posted July 14, 2008
John Powell will compose the score for the third entry in the animated Ice Age series, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Powell already scored the second film, Ice Age: Meltdown, taking over the series from David Newman, who wrote the music for the first 2002 picture. Dawn of the Dinosaurs is Powell’s third project [...]
Posted July 14, 2008
20th Century Fox has confirmed to Upcoming Film Scores that John Debney will compose the original score for the studio’s upcoming sci-fi comedy They Came from Upstairs, directed by John Schultz (The Honeymooners, Drive Me Crazy). The film is about a bunch of kids who fights to protect their vacation home from invading aliens. Cast [...]
Posted July 14, 2008
The upcoming Will Smith drama Seven Pounds, co-starring Rosario Dawson and Woody Harrelson, gets an original score composed by Angelo Milli. His previous credits include 2006 independent thriller Unknown and the recent acclaimed drama Paraiso Travel. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Seven Pounds tells the story of a man “who will change the lives of seven [...]
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