Monday Top Five:: 09.26.22
Each week in our ‘Friday Top Five’ segment, we feature five things we thought were interesting, notable, or culturally significant. This week we are showcasing stories on Canva’s new Visual Worksuite, Apple Drops new watches, A-Trak teaches us how to make house tracks with Serato Studio, Polaroid Enters the Music Arena, and Deadmau5 shows us all how to perform music like we are Daft Punk with the OSC/PILOT.
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Story-1:: Canva Visual Worksuite
Built with the modern workplace in mind, Canva Docs is the ultimate space for team collaboration and communication. You'll be able to work together in real-time while also leaving comments and actions for your teammates. Plus, you'll be able to control who has permission to view, comment or edit; with Canva Insights, you can even track interactions and edits to your Canva Doc over time.
Overview: Since launching Canva in 2013, we've been working towards the wild dream of building a full suite of visual communication products to empower anyone to design and communicate their ideas. Whether you're a small business owner, a nonprofit, a teacher, an individual content creator, or an enterprise organization, we wanted to ensure that regardless of what you're creating, where you live, or what you're trying to achieve – you have all of the products you need at your fingertips.
Links: Website | Print Materials
Story-2:: Apple Goes Big And Bold With Three New Apple Watch Releases
Overview: Three – count 'em, three – new types of Apple Watch. It's the largest and most comprehensive update to the top-of-the-line smartwatch yet. I care about the Apple Targets Outdoor Action With New Apple Watch Ultra.
It includes upgrades such as Apple Watch's brightest display screen yet for legibility in intense sunlight, water resistance up to 100 meters with extended dive capabilities certified by EN 13319 (the international standard for dive computers), temperature resistance in extreme conditions (between -4° F and 131° F), and an 86-decibel siren that can be activated and heard up to 600 feet away in emergency situations. Apple Watch Ultra features a redesigned case profile made of aerospace-grade titanium, as well as a flat sapphire crystal with an extra-large 49mm diameter.
Links: Website
Story-3:: Making a Classic House Track with A-Trak
Overview: Perfect the art of making a banging house track with A-Trak in Serato Studio.
This was an excellent explanation, I mean there a ton of video tutorials about using Serato studio, but most that I've seen are for hip-hop, but I really wanted to see a house tutorial and by far this was the best explained. Thanks for making it look so easy.
Links: Youtube
Story-4:: Polaroid Enter the Music Arena
Overview: Polaroid will be entering a new space. Launching today, the American company has unveiled its new music players.
“Great musicians and photographers capture what we can’t always express with words,” said Polaroid chairman, Oskar Smolokowski, in a statement. “They make us feel. We’re new in the music world, but we want to bring as much color and emotion to the space as we can. We’re excited about this new chapter while still being as committed as ever to instant photography.”
At the core of the players is Polaroid Radio — an ad-free, ever-evolving stream of FM stations that are available in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Austria and more coming soon. The players analog dial is designed to change Polaroid Radio stations without picking up another phone and are a great edition to any group gathering.
The Polaroid P1 ($59.99 USD), P2 ($129.99 USD), P3 ($189.99 USD) and P4 ($289.99 USD) are available to purchase now at the company’s website.
Links: website
Story-5:: OSC/PILOT: deadmau5’s performance controller is now available to everyone
Overview: OSC/PILOT is a performance software that lets you design your own customized control surfaces for MIDI and OSC-compatible applications. Used by deadmau5 for his live shows since 2013, OSC/PILOT is now officially available to everyone.
The drag&drop interface lets you create sliders, buttons, button matrices, rotary knobs and other controllers, and arrange them any way you like. You can then configure them to send MIDI or OSC data to DAWs, other music software and visual applications. The software can also receive OSC data for visual feedback within the UI.
OSC/PILOT supports multi-touch displays. It also lets you set up multiple workspaces in one project, so you could have dedicated control pages for different software applications or tracks, for example.
If you’re a musical or visual artist who performs live using MIDI- or OSC-controllable software, OSC/PILOT looks like a great way to set up your own control surfaces tailored to your needs.
Price and compatibility: OSC/PILOT is now available for USD 49.99. You can also download a free trial version, which is fully functional except that it cannot load or save projects.
Links: Website
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