Avid sucking up everything musical

Macworld UK - Avid buys Sibelius for $23 million:

Macworld Daily News

Wednesday - August 02, 2006

Avid buys Sibelius for $23 million

By Macworld staff

Avid Technology has acquired London-based company Sibelius Software in a $23 million deal.

Sibelius makes music notation software that is widely used by musicians for movies and songs and by scho.

Avid Technology now owns Digidesign (ahem...ProTools), M-Audio (midi controllers and other music hardware/software), and now Sibelius (a top notation program). I fear companies that become too monopolistic.

Inside Home Recording

I've been meaning to send folks over to visit my friends Paul Garay and Derek K. Miller of Inside Home Recording. They're running a nice blog and podcast that I found whilst perusing the iTunes catalog one day, looking for podcasts to consume for an upcoming long road trip. The discussion forum is here, there's some great fickr content, and there are many RSS feeds with which you can cram your newsreader.

They not only review new gear but also provide useful tips and techniques vital to us home recording and project studio nuts. Go check 'em out.