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Video Review: Ableton Live 8, Part 4 

Jun 23, 2009

Check out Live 8's wealth of new devices, including the Looper, Vocoder, Overdrive, Frequency Shifter, Multiband Dynamics and the brickwall Limiter....

Video Review: Ableton Live 8, Part 3 

Jun 22, 2009

Live 8 adds many timing-saving features, such as group tracks, Complex Pro Warp mode, screen zoom, browser waveform view, Slice to New MIDI Track and more....

Video Review: Ableton Live 8, Part 2 

Jun 18, 2009

Live 8's new Groove Engine applies all kinds of preset swings and rhythmic feels to audio and MIDI loops; you can also extract grooves from your own performances....

Video Review: Ableton Live 8, Part 1 

Jun 17, 2009

Part 1 of the Remix Ableton Live 8 video review examines the digital audio workstation's new audio Warping features....

Review: Zero-G Indian Dance Classics  

May 29, 2009

More than 750 Acidized WAV, REX2 and Apple Loop samples recorded on authentic Indian instruments in the styles of Bhangra, Bombay Fusion and more....

Review: Sample Magic Tech-Funk Breaks 

May 14, 2009

Drum, synth and vocal loops and hits as WAV, REX and Apple Loop samples for divergent genres of breakbeat, electro, dubstep and more. ...

Review: Sony Acid Pro 7 Digital Audio Workstation 

May 7, 2009

Sony Acid Pro 7 adds a new mixing console, enhanced Beatmapping, MIDI Track Freeze, Elastique Pro time-stretching and much more a great value...

Video Review: Image Line Sawer Synth Plug-in 

Apr 21, 2009

Image Line Sawer is a virtual instrument based on the Soviet Polivoks analog synthesizer from the '80s...

Review: Universal Audio Moog Multimode Filter 

Mar 19, 2009

The Universal Audio Moog Multimode Filter plug-in combines the best of classic Minimoog, Moogerfooger and Voyager filter sections...

Review: Sample Logic Synergy Virtual Instrument 

Mar 18, 2009

Sample Logic Synergy is an 18 GB collection of more than 1,200 instruments and multis aimed at experimental dance and evocative soundtrack work...

Review: Native Instruments Traktor Pro DJ Software 

Mar 1, 2009

The DJ software adds a vastly improved user interface, album art display, new effects, standard four-deck mixing and new performance features...

Review: Korg NanoSeries MIDI Controllers 

Mar 1, 2009

The Korg Nanoseries MIDI controllers include the NanoKey miniature MIDI keyboard, NanoKontrol mixing module and NanoPad drum pad controller...

New Music Gear: Spring 2009 

Mar 1, 2009

The coolest new music gear of the season includes the Open Labs Miko LXD workstation and the EastWest Silk and Sonivox Playa virtual instruments...

Video Review: D16 Fazortan Phaser Plug-in 

Jan 28, 2009

The affordable D16 Fazortan phaser plug-in delivers great sound and enough options to produce subtle or bizarre and spaced-out effects...

Review: Future Loops Zion Train Dub Drums 

Jan 5, 2009

900 drum loops, more than 100 rolls/fills and 400 drum hits by dub pioneers. 1 GB on DVD in WAV/REX2...

Review: Sony Bunker 8 PHD: Progressive House Dynamics 

Jan 5, 2009

Edgy synth arpeggios, bulbous bass lines and breakbeat rhythms....

Review: Spectrasonics Omnisphere 

Jan 1, 2009

This sampling-plus-synthesis virtual instrument includes a stellar 42 GB sound library....

Review: Prism Sound Orpheus 

Dec 1, 2008

The Prism Sound Orpheus FireWire audio interface, preamp and DAC may be expensive, but you get what you pay for with its pristine audio quality....

Review: Universal Audio UAD-2 

Dec 1, 2008

The successor to the UAD-1 DSP card still comes with more than 30 plug-ins, but provides two-and-a-half times the processing power...

Review: Eventide ModFactor and TimeFactor 

Dec 1, 2008

These stereo effects stompboxes put high-end modulation and delay effects from Eventide’s expensive rack units into affordable, road-ready pedals...

Grab a Fat Sack | Laptop Gig Bags Roundup 

Dec 1, 2008

Read the Remix Roundup on New Laptop Gig Bags for the Traveling DJ by editor Markkus Rovito...

Review-Big Fish Audio Hip Hop Mood Swings 

Nov 10, 2008

This decent hip-hop library caters to a more mature hip-hop/R&B crowd than typical libraries do. In REX, RMX and Apple Loops formats, the 40 construction kits offer a variety of keys at 60 to 115 bpm....

Review-Audio Damage Kombinat 

Nov 6, 2008

When you take the concept of multiband EQ/filtering and apply it to distortion, you get the four-in-one toolbox, Kombinat, available in VST for Windows and Audio Units/VST for Mac OS 10.4.1 or later....

Review: TL Audio Fat Track Tube Production Suite 

Nov 1, 2008

Remix reviews the TL Audio Fat Track Tube Production Suite....

Review: Monster Beats by Dr. Dre 

Nov 1, 2008

Remix reviews Monster Beats by Dr. Dre professional headphones. Supa Engineer Duro, aka Ken Iffil, who’s mixed songs for Alicia Keys, T.I., Jay-Z and many others, give his assessment of the accuracy and sound reproduction of the Monster Beats by Dr. Dre professional headphones....