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....
The art of percussion mandates beating, bashing, crashing, shaking, striking, kicking and several other violent noise-associated verbs. Many times, 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...
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....
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
The scratchy-record sound has become a staple of contemporary music production, yet sometimes the ideal sample on a record is just too scratchy. Removing...
These days, it's all about power. Powerful computers and, yes, for those who can handle it, powerful software. Long a fave of all the Euro-thump jocks...
Everyone who produces music in a home studio knows the frustration of trying to achieve that professional big studio sound. The main obstacle that prevents...
Outta the deep and into the street, Sonar the daddy of all Cakewalk Pro Audio upgrades offers a new name, freshly rewritten code, and a host of added...
Electronic-music makers seem to fall into one of two groups: the unfortunate souls who have never heard of Fruityloops and passionate Fruityloops enthusiasts....
Remember when a sampler was just a sampler? It didn't matter if you owned an Akai, an E-mu, or a llama a sampler was simply a piece of hardware used to...
Think back to the first time you ever heard an electronic music tune that really moved you. Chances are it wasn't the melody that grabbed your gut as...
Many DJs are discovering that working MP3s into their live sets can be just as effective as spinning vinyl or CDs. It provides an outlet for that massive...
Intelligent Dance Music is a genre composed of computer-inspired tonalities and textures that have been skillfully edited, cut up, and processed so the...
Siggi Baldursson is clearly from another planet one most likely run by a government of tabla-thumping senators and beat-tweaking prime ministers. Luckily...
It's hard to beat two decks, a mixer, and a crate of vinyl when mixing songs together. But a computer has a distinct advantage when it comes to working...
Thanks to the advent of file-sharing systems such as Napster and WinMX, CD burning is at an all-time high. Professional musicians, producers, and DJs...
An innovative effects processor for 21st-century sound designers. Software programs that emulate beloved pieces of audio hardware seem to come out every...
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