Hardware synthesizers and workstations often have to cover all the sonic bases, but more and more soft synths specialize in certain types of sounds vintage...
I deal with the total club heads and everyone else, says Markus Moser, one half of chart-topping dance duo iiO. For the club heads, anything but the typical...
Whether creating Miami Bass music is your life's fantasy or your greatest fear, you probably crave the know-how to manifest those car-rattling, trunk-full-of-funk...
In the current music industry, it's not enough to simply make music anymore. These days, to make news, it's imperative for an act to combine quality music...
The DJ and beat maestro behind Los Angeles based hip-hop group Time Machine, Mekalek has been constructing thoroughly funkafied backdrops, consistently...
Most people who experienced the mid-'90s dance/electronic-music explosion associate the excitement with hi-octane live acts like the Chemical Brothers,...
Ever since the soft-synth/sampler revolution began toward the end of the last millennium, Digidesign Pro Tools has attempted a variety of methods to exploit...
TERRATEC PRODUCER AREA 61 EXPANDABLE KEYBOARD SYSTEM This innovative new keyboard design from TerraTec brings together several recent keyboard concepts...
Lots of companies claim to start a revolution with new products. In some cases, it's a brave new hardware protocol or audio standard they're trying to...
M-Audio has delivered the unexpected for so long, the company's surprises are no longer unexpected. It specializes in alternative luxury items: music...
DIGIDESIGN HYBRID ECO-FRIENDLY SOUND ENGINE Hybrid is a sample-accurate RTAS synthesizer for Pro Tools 7 that combines classic-analog and modern-wavetable...
Few bands stick around long enough to release their 20th album; even fewer can count Todd Rundgren, Tony Visconti and Giorgio Moroder among the producers...
With a complete redesign, AmpliTube 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to the 2002 plug-in that got the ball rolling for guitar-tone emulation and effects....
Since its launch almost ten years ago, Acid software has largely defined the way in which electronic music is composed and produced. The pioneering tool...
Like other manufacturers of the '70s and '80s, Sequential Circuits, once a mighty giant in the synthesizer world, now exists in memory, as well as in...
Last month's column, The Soft Machine, presented an introductory lesson on hardware courtesy of Propellerhead Reason software, which is a software mirror...
Despite today's proliferation of music software, it still pays to be deft with old-fashioned hardware. Both are interchangeably used in studio environments,...
Digital audio workstation software can cause trepidation for a lot of people. If you're new to music and audio production, you don't have a frame of reference...
Audio filters have come a long way since their earliest utilitarian use in studios to cut out problematic low frequencies and annoying tape hiss. Still,...
Last month, part one of this two-part series explored amateur sound-effects design for films through obscure and bizarre effects plug-ins. An amazing...
Preparing recordings for specific delivery media is nothing new; first there were radio and 78 rpm records, then came reel-to-reel, cassette, CD, DVD...
We know you're not growing mold from living under a rock. We know you know about podcasting by now. Most articles on podcasting, however, make the presumption...
Over the past decade or so, a certain three-letter abbreviation has become a household name for music producers: DAW. Short for digital audio workstation,...
With the development of new technology, there has always been an accompanying threshold of creativity where eccentric pioneers such as Kraftwerk, Brian...
In the past few years, the shelves of music stores have been inundated with all manner of MIDI-controller keyboards, mixing control surfaces and USB decks...
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