With more than 95,000 media professionals and 1,400 exhibiting companies from 130 countries gathering to network, collaborate and learn, The NAB 2005 will take place from April 16 to 21, at Las Vegas Convention Center.

Read more info on the NAB official website.

Moog Music announces this months that's the new Voyager Rack Mount Edition begins shipping. The Voyager RME features all of the same front panel options of the Minimoog Voyager (sans the touch pad), in a 19"wide, 5U high rack mount format for $2195. MoogMusic also announces the second annual Moog Fest in New York city, which will take place this May 31st, BB King's Bar and Grill in Times Square.

58 magazines from all over the world voted at Musikmesse / ProLight & Sound for the best products of 2004/2005 in more than 40 categories. Here is the full list of nominees and winners :

BEST INNOVATIVE PRODUCT
Apple GarageBand
Line 6 Variax Acoustic
Spectrasonics Stylus RMX

Digidesign today announced D-Command; the newest member of the ICON integrated console family. ICON D-Command incorporates much of the same functionality, industrial design, and custom workflow capabilities of the ICON D-Control. With its compact size and powerful feature set — including dedicated EQ and dynamics editing sections, custom fader modes, and touch-sensitive rotary controls — ICON D-Command is a natural fit for facilities that want ICON's unique mixing capabilities at a more affordable price.

This is a nice project who was started in the context of ICMC 2005 (international computer music conference of Barcelona), and is a website for creative-commons licensed audio material exchange :

" The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to