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Much has been said about EastWest's ambitious Fab Four virtual instrument/soundbank, due in part to the fact that it focuses on The Beatles, probably...
QUANTUM LEAP GYPSY SOUNDS OF THE ROMANTIC NOMADS Easily mistaken for a straight flamenco library from the box shot, Gypsy transcends many cultures (Romani/Czech,...
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, (the adjective form of sibilance) is defined as having, containing or producing the sound of or a sound resembling...
German engineering and ingenuity is something of a legend. Our Teutonic friends have spared no expense bringing us countless marvels over the years not...
Admittedly, I'm an absolute geek for Ableton Live. Ever since version 3, I eagerly await each new release with an excitement that verges on obsession....
We humans naturally perform some interesting spatial decoding with each sound we hear. By tracking the microseconds of delay and minor timbral differences...
While the exorbitant price tags that come part and parcel with the majority of full-featured DAWs (digital audio workstations), and audio editors have...
If you were involved in audio production at any point during the '90s, you probably knew about Sound Forge. When it burst onto the fledgling computer...
After a long wait, elastic audio technology has finally come to Digidesign Pro Tools 7.4 (including Pro Tools 7.4 LE and 7.4 M-Powered). Using a set of...
We all know what it sounds like to run a sound through the cranked-up amplifiers or overdrive pedals guitarists use; basically, it's the same thing that...
Beyond mics, synths and all things outboard, the most contentious debate among computer-centric producers and musicians is and will always be DAWs. Which...
With many things clothes, cars, restaurants, concert tickets you can do well on a budget; you can even have style. But if you really want the best, you...
Unable to afford a Mellotron when it was first released, British keyboard player and engineer Ken Freeman is credited with inventing the polyphonic string...
As a self-taught acoustical architect and designer, I've never been a fan of EQ for tuning studios, largely because the response of a room can change...
The moonwalk. Hair gel. Pumas with fat laces. Leg warmers. Madonna, Wham, Run-DMC. Such things define the '80s, a decade of such sugary decadence that...
Ableton has really shown itself to be, well, able. Those bercreative and hard-working Germans are back with the revamped and re-energized Live 7 Suite,...
No need to ask, both Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and Windows Vista have enough useful new features and sexy, overhauled interfaces to make upgrading worthwhile...
Most people credit the birth of electronic music to early analog synths that hit the scene back in the '60s and '70s. I'm not one to dispute the fact...
Touted as an all-in-one toolset, Adobe Audition 3 (Windows-only) provides recording, mixing, editing and mastering of audio files and includes some basic...
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Review: EastWest Fab Four
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Diss the Hiss
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Infinite Beats
The Final Frontier
Po' Man's DAWs
Sony Sound Forge 9
What's Up, Stretch?
Distorted Realities
Apple Logic Studio
Universal Audio UAD Xpander Xtreme
G-Force Virtual String Machine and Musicrow Vintage String MkII
IK Multimedia ARC System
Future Retro
Ableton Live 7 Suite
Smooth Operators
Native Instrument Kontakt 3
Adobe Audition 3
New Products
Rock the Vox
Propellerhead Reason 4
Go Forward, Move Ahead
The Sixth Annual Remix Technology Awards
