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Jan 1, 2006
One of the most exciting things to happen for the native-workstation crowd is the recent explosion of high-quality guitar-amp effect-modeling software....
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Jan 1, 2006
For those whose entire Macintosh audio experience is on a G4 or newer box or for you fortunate (did I just say that?) Windows-only souls out there, the...
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Jan 1, 2006
Way Out Ware is not the first at the party with an ARP 2600 emulation, but the wait is worth the while. Nevertheless, it's hard to extol the virtues of...
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Dec 1, 2005
In the mid-1990s, Sony Oxford released the OXF-R3, a megaexpensive, no-compromise high-end digital audio mixing system that was later known simply as...
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Dec 1, 2005
In computing terms, the word virtual is defined as something that does not physically exist but appears to exist in software. Whether speaking of virtual...
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Dec 1, 2005
For musicians and engineers dedicated to the Windows platform, an ultrarobust, top-shelf digital audio and virtual-instrument workstation is what you...
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Nov 1, 2005
The MIDI sequencer was one of the coolest things ever developed for music. Using one of these contraptions in conjunction with a MIDI sound module, musicians...
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Nov 1, 2005
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...
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Oct 1, 2005
According to Hollywood mythology, early cinema was marked by a clear distinction: There were picture editors, and there were sound technicians. The two...
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Oct 1, 2005
AS MUCH AS MUSICIANS TODAY ARE BLESSED with cool new audio tools such as Sony Acid, Ableton Live, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX and the like all of which take...
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Oct 1, 2005
Battery 2, Native Instruments' premium virtual drum module, is an easy-to-learn, highly flexible and configurable software sampler. At $229 retail, it...
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Oct 1, 2005
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...
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Sep 1, 2005
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...
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Sep 1, 2005
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...
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Sep 1, 2005
Getting started with multitrack audio and MIDI recording used to be a fairly substantial undertaking that required thousands of dollars of hardware and...
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Sep 1, 2005
Program classic sounds with Propellerhead Reason 3.0— Read the Remix technical feature on programing classic sounds with Propellerhead Reason 3.0....
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Sep 1, 2005
In today's music, groove and timing are everything. If you don't get those two elements right, your tracks are simply not going to pop. To get the timing...
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Aug 1, 2005
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...
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Aug 1, 2005
While many plug-in manufacturers out there are holding firmly to the analog tradition of virtual knobs and sliders, Elemental Audio Systems fully embraces...
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Aug 1, 2005
Contrary to many initial opinions, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX is not simply a groove-construction or accompaniment machine. Much more, it's a real-time...
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Aug 1, 2005
Apple's latest incarnation of Mac OS X, Tiger, is aptly nicknamed. Tiger is fast, efficient, lively and colorful. According to Apple's Website, Tiger...
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Jul 1, 2005
The concept of a software-based DJ rig is nothing new anymore. The market is becoming crowded with hardware and software packages from the likes of Stanton,...
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Jul 1, 2005
If you go to Amazon.com and check out the customer reviews of Ying Yang Twins' last album, Me & My Brother, you'll see an average of 3.5 stars. But when...
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Jul 1, 2005
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...
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Jun 1, 2005
During the past decade or so, the ubiquitous DAW/sequencer/multitrack audio recording software has truly reshaped the recording landscape like nothing...
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