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...
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...
For musicians and engineers dedicated to the Windows platform, an ultrarobust, top-shelf digital audio and virtual-instrument workstation is what you...
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...
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...
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...
According to Hollywood mythology, early cinema was marked by a clear distinction: There were picture editors, and there were sound technicians. The two...
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...
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...
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...
While many plug-in manufacturers out there are holding firmly to the analog tradition of virtual knobs and sliders, Elemental Audio Systems fully embraces...
Contrary to many initial opinions, Spectrasonics Stylus RMX is not simply a groove-construction or accompaniment machine. Much more, it's a real-time...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
During the past decade or so, the ubiquitous DAW/sequencer/multitrack audio recording software has truly reshaped the recording landscape like nothing...
With powerful synth-making tools like Native Instruments Reaktor, it is becoming more and more common for creative minds to independently develop their...
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...
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