MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different music technologies, developed decades apart, to tell each other what to do – ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Once upon a time, aspiring bands, musicians and singers had ...

Mackie's Blackjack works equally well with iOS and Mac. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac If you want to listen to music on your Mac, you either suffer its built-in speakers, or you plug a speaker ...

Linux sound software has been the foundation of my music studio since the late 1990s, but as we all know, that software won't produce so much as a peep without the right hardware. Setting up a stable ...