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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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Jun 1, 2005
With powerful synth-making tools like Native Instruments Reaktor, it is becoming more and more common for creative minds to independently develop their...
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May 1, 2005
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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May 1, 2005
Since the release of its first ambitious software product, dubbed Storm (a competitor of Propellerhead Reason), France-based Arturia has been reintroducing...
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May 1, 2005
Longtime users of Apple Logic know that the program just keeps getting better. What was once a confusing plethora of versions covering four different...
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May 1, 2005
Several years ago, German company Hartmann launched a formidable synthesizer keyboard called, simply, the Neuron. From the high-tech toy shop (or is that...
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May 1, 2005
The world of music production has seen a shift in recent years from keyboards and sound modules to soft synths and samplers. These days, what once required...
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May 1, 2005
When DJs start talking about systems that fuse the versatility of digital audio with the hands-on feel of vinyl, it's a rare conversation that doesn't...
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Apr 1, 2005
Applied Acoustics is one of those rare boutique software houses that has a clear vision of its place within the industry focusing on its strengths, not...
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Apr 1, 2005
For musicians looking to sync a computer's tempo to live musicians, Circular Logic has the solution with its innovative InTime software. InTime listens...
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Apr 1, 2005
SoundToys, indeed: The plug-ins from the outfit formerly known as Wave Mechanics are precisely that a whole lot of fun and games. On the other hand, they...
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