It's easy to become enamored of laptop computers and slick new software programs for live performance. But face it: As cool as laptops are, they are often...
Well, regardless of what the pundits have to say about the health of the economy, the deluge of products that Remix received for review this year seems...
I've had my eye on Allen & Heath mixers for a long time. Way back in the early '90s, when I was just a kid working at a music store, I knew I wanted one...
The past few years have seen an insane increase in the amount of processing power afforded by the latest generation of CPUs. And, finally, the nearly...
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...
Technology is emerging so quickly these days that it's difficult to keep up with the advancements that are made from year to year, much less from week...
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...
THE RETURN OF THE CONSOLE Rewind 10 years: It was the dawn of a new age. Everyone had grown accustomed to recording onto tape and mixing tracks back through...
There is no lack of small, affordable USB audio interfaces in the world today. But distinguishing attributes do exist among them, and Edirol's UA-25 is...
Most professional DJ mixers available these days Pioneer's DJM-600 and Allen & Heath's Xone:92, for example have some sort of built-in effects or filter...
During the past decade, I've used and reviewed different incarnations of the entire MPC line by Akai. Embraced by hip-hop and house artists years ago,...
Throughout the years, computers have changed the art of sampling Once upon a time, professional digital samplers were obese, beefy boxes that required...
The FireWire AudioCapture FA-101 is Edirol's first foray into FireWire-based audio and MIDI. The half-rackspace unit packs a load of features into a pint-size...
These days, a significant number of choices are available if you want a desktop interface/DAW combination. Digidesign has the MBox with Pro Tools LE,...
The audio industry loves to foster that whole fish-out-of-water feeling as often as possible. And only at the annual Summer NAMM convention in Nashville...
DIGIDESIGN COMMAND|8 CONTROL SURFACE FOR PRO TOOLS Digidesign has joined the small-format DAW-control-surface fray with its new Command|8 ($1,295), a...
The human voice is arguably the most important form of communication in the world. People gravitate to it instinctively, almost involuntarily. Producers...
M-Audio's Nova and Solaris are large-diaphragm multipurpose studio condenser microphones that, like much of the M-Audio product line, are geared toward...
You might not ever think about it, but the concept of the project studio is a fairly new idea. And in the beginning, it was companies like Tascam that...
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS ELEKTRIK PIANO SOFTWARE INSTRUMENT (MAC/PC) Software emulations of classic instruments seem to be all the rage these days, but few...
Nothing is typical, conventional or ordinary about Elektron or its products. Billed as a multiple synthesis keyboard synthesizer and advanced pattern-based...
About a year ago, Remix examined the idea of building three project studios on some very strict budgets (Another Bit in the Wall, May 2003). That article...
RME FIREFACE 800 FIREWIRE AUDIO INTERFACE RME, a German company that is gaining a solid rep for top-quality audio interfaces, introduces the newest member...
I'm not a full-fledged gear junkie, but I am, probably, an esoteric, boutique gear junkie, so the X73i from Vintech Audio certainly piques my interest....
The Internet in the mid-1990s changed the face of modern society and how we conduct much of our daily lives. Far more than just a pop- or subculture phenomenon,...
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