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01-30-10 / 11:57 PM : 5 years site anniversary (cjed)

The first news on this site was written just 5 years ago. Since, more than 3000 news/articles have been published (5000-8000 visits/month), and Cjed music downloads at musique-libre (Dogmazic) reached 200 000, without counting direct access from this site. Most of the previously available 70 songs have been temporarily deactivated (only 4 are still downloadable), in order to give focus on MJ Style album.
There are still about 90 percent unreleased songs (700 total) to be discovered (first were composed in 1987).s

01-29-10 / 12:23 AM : Special Event : keynote video (cjed)

The January 2010 Special Event video is available here (90 minutes duration).

01-29-10 / 12:02 AM : CP2JavaWS : a year old /150 downloads per month (cjed)

The Cappuccino/Java bridge, CP2JavaWS, follows its growth, and now reaches 150 downloads a month. It has been completed in late November, however it will be maintained as Cappuccino evolves (and may be included as an Atlas plugin).

01-27-10 / 11:59 PM : iPad : video and details (cjed)

A stunning video of the iPad is available here : it demonstrates the power of multitouch, even further than iPhone's user experience. The screen (9.7 inches) displays up to 1024*768 resolution (can play H264 movies in 720p at 30fps), at 132 ppi (163 ppi for the iPhone). The processor, A4, is custom made by Apple (team from PA Semi) and provides 10h battery life (1 Ghz frequency). Moreover it includes a more powerful 3D chipset than the iPhone 3GS.

The advanced OSX version provides a true desktop (dock, background, windows), and a giant virtual keyboard. Among applications we note iBooks, an ebook reader (with animated/simulated pages swipe), that looks like Delicious Library (with rotating effects, and animating - uses implicit Core Animation - when sorting), a full iTunes, Pages, Numbers et Keynote (10$ for each of these 3 desktop applications), Mail, Calendar, address book, Google Maps, all of these providing advanced multitouch features.

Applications and games from the AppStore (initially conceived for iPhone) can run in windowed mode, or double-sized mode. A dedicaed section will be added to the AppStore. The SDK is still available. Pricing will be 499$ for the 16Gb (Wifi) model - 629$ for Wifi+ 3G -, and availibility is in two months (June/July for 3G models in order to get carriers data plans).

We don't know yet if a Logic version will be added by Apple.

01-24-10 / 06:31 PM : Roland K-RD700GX1 Supernatural Piano Kit (cjed)

Roland announced the K-RD700GX1, a SuperNATURAL update for RD-700GX's piano. This expansion card includes 17 new piano presets, based on modeling (derived from V-Piano) and samples. Details are provided here : . expressivity in every single key (samples), expressivity according to the player’s touch and expressivity of decaying sounds (through modeling).
Expected price is about 329 euros, and it will be available by February.

01-24-10 / 05:58 PM : Roland VP-7 Vocal Processor (cjed)

Roland also presented the VP-7, a stunning vocal processor (see videos here and there). It provides Human Voice mode (Female Choir, Kids Choir, Gregorian Choir, ou Jazz Scat) for playing ensemble voices from the keyboard, and Vocal Designer mode (Duet, Trio1, Trio2) for adding backing voices (2 or 3) that follow the sing (a Roland DR-HS5 microphone is bundled). Finally a Vocoder mode is available. The bypass can be triggered from a pedal. Pricing hasn't been announced yet.

01-21-10 / 11:17 PM : Youtube through HTML5 (cjed)

Google provides access to Youtube videos through HTML5 video tag, for those encoded in H264 format, and then allows to get better performance than when using Flash. We just have to click on the Subscribe to the HTML5 beta program link in this page. This setting is stored through a coookie.
Dailymotion also allows to watch some videos through HTML5.

01-21-10 / 11:08 PM : Firefox 3.6 : new HTML5 features (cjed)

Version 3.6 of Firefox is available. Among new features we can find : HTML video tag, native drag&drop, file API, WOFF font format support, CSS gradients (-moz-linear-gradient and -moz-radial-gradient properties for background), image smoothing when scaling in canvas elements.

01-21-10 / 11:04 PM : Tablet details / Web iTunes (cjed)

Rumors about the mac Tablet are going more and more detailed : ebook, TV subscription, games. Moreover a web version of iTunes may be unveiled in a few months.

01-18-10 / 11:17 PM : Special Event : Tablet/iPhone OS4/touch iLife (cjed)

The January,27 Special Event has been confirmed by Apple, that is expected to announce not only the Tablet, but also iPhone OS4 (with a new emulator that alllows to test applications at higher resolution... the ones used by the Mac Tablet), and iLife 2010 (with multitouch features).

01-14-10 / 11:44 PM : EastWest Hollywood Strings : video available (cjed)

The demonstration video of EastWest Hollywood Strings is available at soundsonline (200 Mb archive, mov container). The playing and rendering seem to achieve a new step, that we couldn't even have expected, and that helps creating, even more than with Silk. The music track is uncompressed 24 bits (and a second, 16 bits, for comments). The whole is 2,2 Mb/s (22 minutes duration).

01-14-10 / 11:36 PM : IK Multimedia AmpliTube 3 (cjed)

IK Multimedia presented AmpliTube 3 at NAMM 2010. It includes 160 amps models (modern and vintage), and enhanced versions of AmpliTube 2's ones. Performances are better, and resources requirements are adjustables. A demo version is planned soon. Finally it is also compatible with G4 (dual 1 Ghz min).

01-11-10 / 10:58 PM : BigFishAudio Miroslav Vitous String Ensembles (cjed)

Big Fish Audio presents Miroslav Vitous String Ensembles, that provides two strings ensembles : Large Orchestra (24 violins, 14 violas, 12 celli, and 9 basses) and Chamber Ensemble (14 violins, 8 violas, 5 celli, and 4 basses). Control of each instrument section is provided, and many articulations are available : Legato, Sul Ponticello, Vibrato, Non-Vibrato, Tremolo, Pizzicato, Staccato, Expressivo, Sforzato.
It is priced 1400$ and requires 6Gb of disk space. It is based on the Yellow Tools ENGINE player, compatible with G4 macs. No audio demos are available yet.

01-11-10 / 10:42 PM : PowerVR SGX545 : OpenGL 3.2 & OpenCL (cjed)

Imagination Technologies announces POWERVR SGX545, that brings support for DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.2, and OpenCL 1.0. It can manage 40 million polygons/s and 1 Gpixels/s at 200Mhz.

01-08-10 / 12:12 AM : ITMS : web preview (cjed)

A browser-based preview is now provided at iTunes Charts site for ITMS songs (same features as with iTunes application, however playing is handled by the QuickTime plugin).

01-07-10 / 12:53 AM : Symphonic Orchestra : free Starter (cjed)

EastWest provides a free version (Starter) of Symphonic Orchestra (form to complete, and download link sent by email). We can further upgrade to Gold, Platinum or Platinum Plus versions.