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Are you a digital performer? K, dumb question, I know you make digital music, but are you using MOTUs digital performer to help create it? If you are then this course containing over 3 hours of interactive video covering all major aspects of audio and midi recording, editing, mixing and mastering using the MOTU Digital Performer 7 is for you. visit www.digitalmusicdoctor.com if your interested in this course.

The Leveling - Moore's law of Music The leveling is a theory that has been going on since the beginning of mankind. Eventually, as technology becomes cheaper to produce we all are gaining access to the same tools, the barriers that use-to provide advantages to those with the most resources is nearing an end. In the music/creative world, the first moment of leveling occured with the adent of ProTools (Digital Studios), then TuneCore (Digital Distribution) and Social Media (Digital Promotion). Now since everyone has the same ingredients how will your recipe stand out.

You just made a new CD, your goal get it into as many itunes playlists as possible. Getting into digital playlists such as itunes could be the same as getting your newly released CD into Walmart (and other retailers). The AirStream now gives you a comfortable way to access your iTunes music library from all the way up stairs in your cramped corner office. If this is the source component of the future then digital music just made a new friend.

Loiterers Should Be Arrested. The CMJ Music Marathon ended last week but the lessons learned have just begun. Kevin English, blogger at eleetmusic.com took some time to talk about the lessons that he took away with him from the many panelists. His conclusion; there is no concrete answer to surviving in todays music industry. Old school pundits stressed the importance of networking and buzz generation by any means possible while New Media progressives represented new media applications, widgets and digital services that promised to strengthen direct to fan relationships. It wasn't until the Sudanese rapper Emmanual Jai took to the stage that he realized industry survival was about constantly adapting, bending the industry to specifically cater to your needs. Figure out what your number one need is right now as an indie artist and exploit that need. Kevin's short but enlightening read this morning brings me to the idea of a (wait for it, wait for it) digital manager. Not loading up all of your tracks on myspace, but actually hiring a manager to surf the web all day and submit your music to opportunities world wide. Has anyone tried something like this yet? let me know how it works, and what you have been doing to try to adapt.

Internet Radio Stations Rejoice.

Here's an interesting one. Remember when the labels were on Apples heels to allow for a more flexible pricing structure than the 0.99 cent that apple had set? It even got so out of hand that _ started removing content from the iTunes store (Like a big baby!), only later to put it all back in, remember this? Well ever since apple conceded in allowing labels to increase popular tracks from .99 cents to $1.29 digital revenue has slowed. Warner saw and 8 percent growth in the holiday quater verses 20 percent the year before while digital album downloads gre 5 percent in december, down 10 percent in the sept quarter and 11 percent in the june quarter. Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman seems optimistic thought saying that the price change has been a "net positive" for warner, but agreed that a 30 percent price increase during a recession probably wasn't the best move. No duh.

The future of Music: Manifest for the Digital Music Revolution - The guide to prepare you for a world where copyright has vanished, music belongs to know, one artists make money indirectly from their music.

Potential Artist Revenue Streams David Sherbow music business visionary has a good outline of ALL POTENTIAL ARTIST REVENUE STREAMS. The list covers publishing, digital sales, merchandise, live performances, sponsorships, endorsements, fan clubs, and the list goes on. It'd be great if this list could actually link to articles that explain how to work the revenue of each stream. Hopefully we'll see this in Potential Rev Streams list 2.0.

1. The best approach is slow and cautious. Right now, we are in the jungle. In the jungle, you don't rush blindly ahead. You dip a toe in the sand, and see if you sink. We have no hope of predicting which of these services might catch on. We need to move slowly, with very short-term agreements and see what works and what fails. And we need to be sure not to undermine our other business partners while we do that. Which leads to… 2. We should support our allies and punish our enemies. Rob McDaniels for InGrooves estimates that it takes 150-200 streams of one song to equal the royalty income on a single download. Right now, our industry still relies on the sale of physical product (believe it or not, it's still the primary source of revenue) and on digital downloads. Perhaps streaming is the future. Perhaps not. But we would be very unwise to cut ridiculously low-cost rates to a business model that obviously threatens both physical retailers and iTunes. Let's take care of the people paying our bills. At the same time, we should continue to press ahead with legal efforts against things like Pirate Bay- efforts that are finally starting to show some results. 3. We need to recognize that "bundling" and ad-revenue sharing is a marriage, and it works both ways. If we bundle the cost of music access into the cost of a mobile phone or the sale of a computer, we're now not only in the music business, we're in the electronics business. Any economic factors that hurt the sales of phones and computers will now hurt us as well. 4. Most of all, we need transparency in the negotiations and setting of rates, so that everyone in the music community understands what they're being paid and how it's being calculated.

At Access4Artists, you have the ability to create an online press kit that is available instantly to promoters and talent seekers anywhere in the world. One phone call or email and in seconds your digital press kit is selling for you!

Myspace is now officially a joke? The Hitler meme videos that have been floating around on the internet picking up victims to parody just committed another crime. This Hitler meme is a video about the firing of Myspace CEO Owen Van Natta after just 9 months on the job. The video is speculated to have been an inside job and repeatedly mentions News Corp Digital Chief Jon Miller and newly promoted co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones. Man, Myspace is falling apart over there.

Radio is starting to have an uphill battle with digital media. The car radio as we know it is losing its monopoly, and this could mean big news for internet radio stations, iPods and hard drives. The new wave seems like its how many itunes playlists can you get in? Radio used to be an 18 billion dollar monopoly, but predictions have it only sitting at 8 billion by 2006.

Avid, creator of Protools and Sibelius 6 software gave top honors to Pro Tools 8 in the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) category, for quality and quantity, and top honors to Sibelius 6 for its tools and support. Has anyone been using the new Pro Tools 8? I know they say quality is better than quantity but what happens if you have both? (but does pro tools 8 really have both?)

Fans will spend (and spend a lot) for a combination of both physical and digital goods that span the artist's "product line".

Britney Spears: Baby one more time,

Take a weekend and make something

Labels put more musicians in the poor house.

using ear plugs at shows really allows the nuance to shine through

There's an App for everything these days and soon there's going to be hardware for every app, are you intrigued yet. Ion has just released this beatiful 25-key MIDI keyboard, that is confirmed to be open to application developers. Would you be interested in hooking your iPhone up to a midi keyboard or will nothing replace the satisfaction of plugging your keyboard into a mac and using your favorite software studio.

Are you ready for Myspaces audio ads? Regardless if your ready or not they're on the way. Myspace has teamed up wth TargetSpot to find the right balance between music and advertising that will keep listeners and attract investors. Basically the strategy -Short audio ads, increase overall value. As the exclusive audio sales rep for Myspace Music, Target spot, which represents a network of both internet radio providers and some of the largest radio groups has doubled in reach from 20 million unique monthly listeners to as many as 40 million. Target Spots plan for us listeners who still find ourselves on myspace from time to time is to have a "sensitivity to the space" and ensure a good user experience. I hope this solves all of Myspaces problems, so that they can focus on their next task, helping the musicians of it's myspace music service.