Rycote maintain the most comprehensive microphone data list I know of - very useful

Microphone Data is the successor to the original Microphone Data Book - the truly comprehensive guide to microphones in professional use.

Microphone Data deals in facts, not opinions, with pictures, response curves and technical data from the manufacturers themselves for every currently listed microphone (and even a few that aren't).

To put the data into context you will also find a library of articles by some of the most eminent people within the audio industry that Rycote has commissioned specially.

Whether you use, study, sell, rent, invent or write about microphones, we hope you find this website a useful source of information.

We have a new CD titled Surface, Texture, Line, coming out this month, just in time for our Australian New Music Network concert at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Saturday September 27 at 6:30PM. You can book tickets online or purchase them at the door.

Minitek, the New York electronic music and innovation festival has an interesting collection of innovative musical interfaces, with a particular focus on tabletop instruments, well worth a look.

I like the look of these newinterfaces from Ruin & Wesen, especially the Joystick

The Monojoystick is a small joystick controller designed as the ideal companion to the Elektron Monomachine SFX-60. Featuring 6 buttons, it allows to intuitively select the controlled track. The controlled parameters are setup in the Monomachine settings panel, just as on the SFX-6 model.

More than just an emulation, the Monojoystick has a few tricks up its sleeve: when pressing multiple track buttons, you can control up to all tracks at once with a single sweet of the joystick, allowing for some sonic madness! To clean up, just revert to the saved kit at the press of a button. Alternatively, you can also revert a single track back to its saved settings. Furthermore, the MonoJoystick finally allows you to have access to CTR-AL tweaking on the MonoMachine. Press a button on the MonoJoystick, turn a knob on the MonoMachine, and all tracks are affected!

I was really taken with the amazing organic form of Pablo Reinoso's Spaghetti Bâle> the

format partition as fat16 on mac osx | liquidx

just in case i forget, in order to partition a disk with a FAT16 partition:

diskutil partitionDisk /Volumes/NDS 1 MBRFormat "MS-DOS FAT16" "NDS" 1000M

that is:

* /Volumes/NDS: the mount point to partition, could also be /dev/disk1
* 1: the number of partitions
* MBRFormat: the partition format, MBR is the usual default for removable storage
* "MS-DOS FAT16": partition type
* "NDS": partition name
* 1000M: 1000 megabytes (size of the partition, if it is the last, it will span to the end of the drive)