QT Software, under the graces of Nokia, has released the superb QT cross-platform toolkit under the LGPL.

This. is. HUGE.

For the libre software purist, this still benefits you, if indirectly. Companies that make changes to the toolkit must still submit patches. More influential, GPL incompatible software may now readily …

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One of my favorite blogs, Create Digital Music, ran a piece on NIN doing a rehearsal for Echoplex.

It's neat to see the Lemur, a touch screen MIDI controller, used live by the drummer. Overall the song structure is relatively simple but it is amazing how well they keep together …

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A lot of people are having trouble with Ableton Live 7. This is especially true with MIDI functionality. It stems from the fact that Live 7 defaults to the DirectMusic MIDI interface. Apparently DirectMusic then has to do emulation because the standard Microsoft MIDI driver is not DirectMusic native (Microsoft …

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