On Aug 8, 2008 (08/08/08), there was such a great opening ceremony of Olympic games in Beijing, China. What about 09/09/09, what is happening? A few months ago Propellerhead announced Record and promised that Record will be available on 09/09/09. Today I’ve just read the news mention another “big thing” will happen on 09/09/09. It’s from Mackie.

I’m now considering to buy new synth which is just a compact synth but with full-sized key. There’re 2 candidates; Korg R3 and Roland SH-201. I can easily find information of SH-201 on Roland’s website. But for R3, I think Korg’s website is not good at usability.

This video is the making of “The Dark Knight” scores. Hans Zimmer talked about how the idea came up. You’ll see his workspace in this video. Even though I’ve heard for long time that Hans owns a lot of gear, looking at his workspace in this video is impressed. It’s like a spaceship indeed.

Back to my college days, I was a freshman by the time Charlie’s Angels was in theaters. I heard this theme song by Apollo 440 from MTV. The lead-synth sound and musical style touched me. I was yet to know what synthesizer is by then, even know who is Apollo 440, but I love their music.

The vision of Wolfgang Egger, Head of Audi Group Design, inspired me. He was willing to see the design team which normally design cars study and design piano in this project, because he believe it will benefit his young-designer later when they work on car design.