Joining the ranks of cool musical instruments that can be played with your Nintendo Wiimote is Evan Merz's Wii Play the Drums. It's a soft sampler that's played just like a real-world drum kit… albeit an invisible one! Evan wrote the program in .Net and used this nifty Wiimote library from Coding4Fun's Brian Peek. Here's a clip of the sampler in action:

The sampler is a snap to set up on pretty much any windows machine and is a must-try for every PC-based musician who owns one of Nintendo's innovative controllers. Download it here.

Making music on your PDA? You'll want to check out Palm Sounds, then, a brand new blog and website dedicated to music production on portable devices. Palm Sounds offers news, reviews, industry events and speculation on future developments, as well as the internet's only comprehensive directory of mobile music programs. The Application Directory presents a complete list of software for both the Palm and Windows Mobile platforms, complete with summaries and links, and will be updated regularly.
Palm Sounds are courting opinion from 'the community' as to what direction the site should go in, so head on over and let them know what you think.

Welcome to the world of demos, where the synergy of music and art can be wildly more thrilling than the sum of their parts. And there are no demo productions more elegant than Debris, the latest competition-winning production from legendary Teutonic demo crew Farbrausch.
What makes this incredible audio-visual artwork even more impressive than most is the fact that the whole thing is generated on the fly – graphics, sound and music – allowing the file-size to be kept below that of the average kick-drum sample. The whole thing is packed into a 177KB executable!
Those running a PC with a half-decent graphics card can download the demo. For the rest of us, there's the YouTube video. Whichever you choose, though, do watch the whole thing with that file size firmly in mind – you won't believe your eyes...

Download Debris here

These days you can make amazing music on your home computer with a variety of powerful software packages and hundreds of incredible plug-in effects. It hasn't always been this way though - check out this vintage clip from long lost BBC technology show Micro Live:

Who would have though that high street chemist Boots would be the first place to shop for virtual drum machines?

If you're after those classic C64 sounds features later in the clip, keep your eyes peeled for a very special addition to the CM Studio, arriving with issue 113 on May 9th.