Roland is really boosting their new handheld - the new R-09HR (previous post), with rubber case, carrying pouch, as well as a separate stand for it.

Roland

Roland announces the newest addition to its award-winning line of portable digital recorders, the R-09HR. Featuring an updated design with an upgraded pro-quality stereo microphone and an onboard preview speaker for instant audio playback.
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Packaged as complete computer music solutions, the AUDIOGRAM Series bundle together a hardware interface with audio inputs and outputs, software for recording and producing music, and a USB cable for connection to a computer. Recording music from instruments, microphones, CD players or MP3 players is - according to Yamaha - as easy as installing the included music-production application, CUBASE AI, on your computer and connecting the audio interface using the USB cable provided.
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I’m going to Musikmesse in Frankfurt today to check out what’s happening in the world of audio and music. I hope to bring you some good news for podcasters from there. Stay tuned…

Shure’s latest podcast (shurecast) deals with directionality. Perhaps it’s worth a listen. Here’s the direct link: Microphone basics: directionality

You might remember that I made a lot of nose about Snapper before and when it was released. Today I took a look at what seems to be the original - AudioFinder by Iced Audio. It actually looks more advanced to me, and it seems like it’s free with limited use.

There’s a video showing mostly the more music-related features of it, but I think it could be valuable for general sound browsing. I wonder why the speaker in that video sounds like a robot though…

Iced Audio

ASK Videos has announced the release of a new GarageBand tutorial DVD. It caught my eye since it seems to deal a little with podcasting and voice overs. The downside is that tutorial DVDs are rather expensive, and if you don’t care about the music side of this DVD (which is definitely the majority of it) it will probably seem a little expensive to shell out 50 bucks for it.

Perhaps there’s someone here who want to learn about podcats and is an aspiring mixer, producer or musician?

Check out the details at ASK Videos website.