Project-studio musicians and engineers looking for pro workstation functionality in an easy-to-use package are often faced with a daunting host of sequencers...
Line 6 certainly started something with its Pod series of amp-modeling processors. Mainly, the company helped to rescue engineers from the drudgery of...
For nearly 25 years, the Technics SL-1200MK2 has remained the undisputed champion of professional DJ turntables. Many challengers have come and gone,...
Okay, I'll admit it: I had lost faith in Sound Forge. I'd used Sound Forge since 1994, when there weren't many audio options for PC users and when people...
Workstation boxes that claim to be all-in-one groove machines crowd music shops and catalogs, and it's difficult for a new entry to stand out from the...
Well, I, for one, have just about run out of metaphors from the history of vintage synthesis to introduce the latest in future-retro synth offerings from...
It's one of the great debates in the audio world: Steinberg Wavelab or Sonic Foundry Sound Forge? Syntrillium Cool Edit or SEK'D Samplitude? TC Spark...
The long awaited revision of Emagic's flagship product, Logic Audio, has finally hit the streets with Version 5.0, and it looks like the research and...
If your DJ gig keeps you frequently on the move, you have to worry about lugging around a heavy cargo of vinyl and CDs. The lure of MP3s cannot be overstated....
There are tons of reasons to love Roger Linn. After all, he did invent the Linn Drum, the first drum machine to sound like real drums instead of bloops...
The art of percussion mandates beating, bashing, crashing, shaking, striking, kicking and several other violent noise-associated verbs. Many times, the...
Bill Laswell is just a little bit more than your typical art-rock, hip-hop, ambient, dub, indie-rock, funk and world-beat producer, remix artist and megamusician....
Since the early days of scratching, Stanton Magnetics has probably been best known for its cartridges and styli; its 500AL cartridge has long been the...
Face it: If you make music, you want Digidesign Pro Tools. Even if you don't know you want it, you do. It's impossible to turn on the radio, pop in a...
Midiman's Oxygen 8 USB MIDI keyboard controller is one of those pieces of gear that everyone DJs, producers and even nonkeyboardists seems to want. The...
During the past couple of years, MP3-player programs aimed at desktop DJs have been springing up like weeds. The companies all promise the same thing,...
These days, manufacturers are trying all sorts of storage variations for their hardware-based digital recorders. Everything from hard disks to Zip disks...
When drum 'n' bass emerged, it seemed too tough to tame. But with time, the style has been absorbed by dance culture, and in just a couple of years, the...
Many musicians are all too aware of just how limited computer-based workstations really are. It seems that no matter how much RAM or processor speed you...
At first glance, Ableton's Live 1.0 may appear to be heavily influenced by Sonic Foundry's Acid Pro software. After all, both arrange time-synchronized...
American DJ is a key player in the DJ-equipment market. Also selling under the American Audio brand, the company is a lighting, controller and audio-product...
High-quality plug-ins are often taken for granted. They broaden musical horizons and expand the musical palette in ways that many musicians never imagined,...
Ah, 505. That number brings back memories. My first piece of electronic gear was a Roland TR-505 Rhythm Composer, and, boy, did I feel ready to break...
In today's world of blazingly fast gigaHertz processors and high-end plug-ins, does it really matter which application you use to edit and master your...
Vibes, marimbas and other mallet percussion instruments have enjoyed a recent resurgence thanks in part to bands such as Tortoise and Groove Collective,...
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