During the past three years, Steinberg has been carefully assembling its own little virtual band, the members of which are all done rehearsing and finally...
When I think back to my first studio where I was surrounded by an ominous wall of keyboards, sound modules and flashing lights I can't help but pat myself...
According to Hollywood mythology, early cinema was marked by a clear distinction: There were picture editors, and there were sound technicians. The two...
Delay and echo are the oldest and most commonly used effects in modern recording. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that there exist more delay-based...
In the fall of 2001, a brand-new company came out of the blue (well, Berlin to be exact) and wowed just about every laptop-toting musician everywhere...
Long hailed as the holy grail of audio production suites, Digidesign Pro Tools has been an industry leader for quite some time, setting the benchmark...
Getting started with multitrack audio and MIDI recording used to be a fairly substantial undertaking that required thousands of dollars of hardware and...
Cakewalk's Project5 Version 2, in the words of the company's founder, blurs the boundary between studio and stage, and indeed it does. The program encompasses...
While many plug-in manufacturers out there are holding firmly to the analog tradition of virtual knobs and sliders, Elemental Audio Systems fully embraces...
Talk about timing: Nearly the same day that I first sat down to give this latest offing from Trillium Lane Labs a test drive, I had the good fortune of...
Musicians have always longed to break free from the studio. Face it: Few things are less inspiring than sitting down at your music workstation day after...
Computer-based music has long suffered from the stigma that it's not quite ready for prime time. Pretty much everybody can think of examples in which...
With powerful synth-making tools like Native Instruments Reaktor, it is becoming more and more common for creative minds to independently develop their...
The world of music production has seen a shift in recent years from keyboards and sound modules to soft synths and samplers. These days, what once required...
To some people out there coding away in Cupertino, Calif., GarageBand is their baby. To them, these are special times: the formative years of development...
At this point in the pro-audio industry, the quality of soft synthesizers is generally amazing; therefore, the question for developers is which company...
Applied Acoustics is one of those rare boutique software houses that has a clear vision of its place within the industry focusing on its strengths, not...
With electronic music, a great divide has existed between what happens in the confines of the studio and what happens on the stage. Software synths and...
If human evolution is defined by increasing levels of complexity as time passes, Stylus RMX shows just how far people have come since banging bones on...
One of the most common questions that people ask is, What sequencer should I use? The next is usually, Should I get a Mac or a PC? These days, the answers...
It's no secret that the laptop is quickly becoming the preferred performance tool and production notepad for many musicians and producers. With the increasing...
Although the market is flush these days with compact audio interfaces, most offer up only a couple channels of I/O and very little in the way of multichannel...
I know how it goes: You go to the gear shop, real or virtual, and discover all of the goodies that you absolutely need in your computer-based studio,...
It's been only a few years since Ableton burst onto the scene with the first version of Live, and in that short time, there's no denying that this program...
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