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If you are even a casual user of Twitter, you might start to wonder where your favourite applications and tools are in the Tweetosphere. While some claim the Twitter service is annoying, and degrading the quality of web publishing, there is a certain potential usefulness to a mere 140 keystrokes of information. That may seem small, but 140 characters are certainly enough for a quick bit of knowledge in music production land. Music production, like in Ableton Live. It’s definitely time that Ableton joined the Twitter party.

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In a few days I’m flying out to South East Asia for the remainder of the year, which means the past few weeks have seen a doubling of reviews of music hardware to cover the street press content in my absence. There have been some surprises, such as the excellent AKG C214 microphone inspiring myself and Kris Ko to record some acoustic guitars on a Segue track that should see the light of day in early 2009. There have also been some bits and pieces that have met but not entirely exceeded my expectations. One of those is the Korg Micro-X.

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