Powering Music

DJ-VJ LAPTOP BATTLE
A unique event at Cargo

To host the final round of the Intel DJ-VJ Laptop Battle, Intel teamed up with the Cargo nightclub in the hip heartland of London. The result was a uniquely successful event. Four weeks earlier, the Battle had started as an online competition and the inventiveness of the entries had already generated a big buzz among laptop-creatives and their breakbeat club circuit. The eight finalists brought with them a mind-blowing battalion of sounds and images, harnessed in their laptops and poised to unleash on the crowd and conquer their opponents. But there could only be two winners.

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Technology Meets Music

I still remember the days when I was following my dad’s first experiments in making music on a home computer: He was inserting single notes onto the staff using a joystick. That rather rudimentary sequencer was able to handle not more than a single track and offered the user just a handful of sounds which more resembled mosquito buzzes than the instruments they were named after. And among other essentials, a lifesaving auto-save feature was still many years away…

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How Intel Drives The Music Biz

The goal for Intel and our fellow travellers in music is the same: technology must be smart and powerful enough to be transparent to artists. We want to unburden the artists and just let them create…

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At The Core Of Tomorrow’s Music Apps

Why should you as a musician care about all the latest processor technologies like the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor? Because now you’re DAW and other music apps can process vastly more audio tracks in real time due to their capability to utilize the power of multiple cores…

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