Mountain View, CA—October 2016… Wizdom/moForte’s GeoShred virtual instrument for iPad is both a serious musical instrument and a whole lot of fun. A fusion of development partner Wizdom Music’s Geo Synthesizer user interface and moForte’s stunning modeled guitar and effects chain, GeoShred lets you perform impressive guitar-like parts, as well as things no guitarist could ever play. To test and further develop its groundbreaking app, the moForte team sought a quali

Atlanta, GA—October 2016… Musicians who grew up before Camp Jam came along can only wish we had been luckier. Available as a five-day summer day camp and as a six-day overnight camp, Camp Jam gives kids and teens the chance to learn from and perform with professional musicians. The curriculum includes songwriting, instrumental instruction, playing in a band, studio production, and making a music video. More than 20,000 students have benefitted from Camp Jam in the past ten years.TAS

Doylestown, PA—September 2016… When you hear their music, you know immediately that brothers George and Geoff Hazelrigg are fine classically and jazz-trained musicians. The Hazelrigg Brothers’ trio sound is primarily acoustic, and although their overall style has recognizable roots, it is a product of an unusual musical background. George mostly plays piano with the trio but he started out as a harpsichordist. Geoff plainly has studied the masters of upright bass but he, too,

Montebello, CA—September 2016… At the June 2016 InfoComm trade show in Las Vegas, rAVe Publications reporter Johnny Mota and podcasting partner Victoria Barela were having fun, as usual. The two had set up rAVe Pubs RADIO desk and were hard at work, creating podcasts from the show floor that featured interviews with a variety of exhibitors and attendees. Key to this year’s shows was a new tool: TASCAM’s MiNiSTUDIO Creator US-42 interface.“We used the MiNiSTUDIO for

Montebello, CA—August 2016… Sonicreef’s Looptunes for iPhone® and iPad® is a very cool app that lets you create loop sessions on the fly and then manipulate and shape them with a multitude of parameters, all in real time. It’s a fun way for musicians of any skill level to quickly create beats, play along with a loop session, or jumpstart their compositional efforts. To assess his app’s sonic output properly, Sonicreef creator Peter Thom needed to hear it wi

Spokane, WA—August 2016… As much as photographer and videographer Duane Regehr enjoyed his video shoots in the Karnataka region of southern India, it was hard, hot work. Regehr was especially concerned that the dust, heat, and humidity might cause problems with his cameras and his new TASCAM DR-70D field recorder. He need not have worried.“Everything worked great. The DR-70D was rock solid the entire three weeks we were in India, and it was a hot, humid environment,” rec