Production

Hardware

Review: Elektron Monomachine SFX 60 MKII

This versatile beatbox synthesizer is a pattern sequencer, a loop creator and a MIDI synth module suitable for the studio or stage....

Review: Prism Sound Orpheus

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....

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Software

New Gear: IK Multimedia T-Racks 3

This mastering suite delivers renditions of classic compressors, a multialgorithm brickwall limiter and more...

Phantom Power: Beats From Nothing

Get creative with your sound sources with transformative sampling, audio editing and more....

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Sound Collections

One-Shots, April 2008

SAMPLE MAGIC SUNSET SESSIONS DOWNTEMPO LATE-NIGHT OVERTURES Chill-out is a pretty wide genre, so there's no better way to compile this 1.8 GB collective...

One-Shots

NINE VOLT AUDIO ACTION DRUMS: BOOM JINX BREAKBEAT EDITION RHYTHMS BUILT FOR THE CAMERA Boom Jinx is the alter ego of DJ/producer istein J. Eide, a Norwegian...

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Tips & Techniques

Gear: The Sound of the Legendary SID Chip, Part 2

Learn how to use MIDI to trigger the trademark SID Chip sounds from a Commodore 64 computer....

Gear: The Sound of the Legendary SID Chip, Part 1

Snare the trademark 8-bit Commodore 64 sound with SID chip hardware synthesizers or software plug-in emulations....

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Music Business

Band Aid | Signal Path

Audio engineer Dave Hampton discusses the all-important business side of working as a successful audio engineer....

Band Aid | Dollars & Sense

Read the Remix "Band Aid" article by People Under the Stairs producer Thes One. Thes One discusses keeping band expenses low to make a bigger profit on the road and his "bad business idea" of designing the Tree Audio 500 custom console....

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News

HOWAUDIO.COM LAUNCHES AUDIO SOFTWARE TRAINING WEBSITE

HowAudio.com has announced the launch of a subscription-based, on-demand music and audio software training Website. HowAudio.com is an online community for learning the latest multitrack, 2-track audio software and plug-ins. In addition, HowAudio.com offers how-to videos titles covering a range of topics, including musical instruments, hardware, percussion and music-business topics. ...

JDUB & ABLETON BALKAN BEAT BOX REMIX CONTEST

JDub Records and Ableton Live present the official Balkan Beat Box Remix Contest. ...





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