January 2006 In This Issue
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Competition WIN: East West/Quantum Leap Sample Libraries Deadline: 2006-02-28 Your chance to win East West/Quantum Leap's Symphonic Orchestra Gold and Symphonic Choirs sample libraries. Reviews Vocal Processing Plug-ins [Mac OSX/WinXP] With their new plug-in bundle, Antares promise to let you change the character of the human voice. Patchable Analogue & Digital Synthesizer
Condenser Microphones This new set of Chinese-built mics offers good-quality vocal and instrument recording on a budget. Modelled Analogue Synth Creamware's Minimax is certainly not the first digital emulation of a Minimoog to be released — nor even Creamware's first. But it bucks the recent trend for software recreations of vintage synths — by being hardware. Can it replace the real deal? Recording Software [Mac/PC]
Band-splitting Processor
Tips, Techniques & Gear Our new regular section for guitarists combines tips and techniques with a look at interesting new gear. This month, it's the CORNFORD CARRERA recording amp and the TAKAMINE COOL TUBE acoustic preamp. Digital Multitracker Korg's newest workstation heavyweight boasts 32 recording tracks, a powerful 44:12:2 mixer, a programmable drum machine, and up to 11 simultaneous effects — all for under £1000. Read our test report... Firewire Interface & Control Surface [PC/Mac]
Firewire Audio Interface Mackie's new 10-in, 10-out breakout box includes and internal DSP mixer, MIDI connectivity, and four of their high-spec Onyx preamps. Modelled Drawbar Organ Software [PC/Mac] Since its launch in 2000, NI's B4 has been the software instrument of choice for those who want realistic tonewheel organ sounds from their computer. But NI are clearly convinced it can be better... VST 2.0 & AU Synth Plug-in [Mac/PC] Sound designer Rob Papen may be known to you as the name behind amazing sounds for the Access Virus or Alesis Andromeda. Now he has moved into producing software-based synths of his own. So how good is it? Hot New Releases Funk University **** Dual-core Athlon 64 PC For Music
Active Midfield Monitors
Firewire Audio & MIDI Interface [PC/Mac] If you fancy Tascam's FW series of Firewire interfaces but don't need their control-surface features, the new FW1804 might be just what you are looking for. | People + Opinion John Fryer
Paul White's Leader The year is 2016 and Editor In Chief Paul White pens another thought-provoking leader column... Technique Avoid Viruses, Spyware, Adware, Phishing & Internet Hacks PC Notes We'd probably all prefer to keep our music PCs insulated from viruses, spyware, adware, phishing and the general nastiness of the Internet, but the way music software is developing makes this increasingly difficult. Find out more... Avoiding The Blue Screen Of Death PC Musician If you've ever been confronted by the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death, suffered random reboots or faced the frustration of inexplicable PC crashes, read on for some preventative measures... CLASSIC TRACKS: The Staple Singers I'll Take You There Producer: Al Bell; Engineers: Terry Manning, Jerry Masters For the Staple Singers' landmark 1972 Stax album, Terry Manning and producer Al Bell employed the talents of Memphis's finest musicians and two of the South's most famous studios. Steinberg Cubase Tips & Techniques Cubase contains many powerful features for processing MIDI data, such as the Logical Editor and Macros. This month we look at how using them together can create some powerful solutions to potentially tedious problems. Making A Living From Music For Picture: Part 2 Creating Your Showreel If you're ever going to make it in this game, you need a calling card, a way of impressing potential clients with your musical ability — you need a showreel. We explain what to do to create one... Making The Most Of Digital Performer Plug-ins Digital Performer Notes & Techniques Can you honestly say you use all the features of DP's plug-ins? If not, prepare to be intrigued, as we dig deeper into Dynamics, Multimode Filter, Sonic Modulator and more, in search of the facilities you didn't know were there. Logic Notes & Techniques We look at how to combine your hardware and the software-processing within Logic for mastering purposes. PCI Express: What Does It Mean For Mac Musicians? Apple Notes With the new single-processor, dual-core Power Macs shipping, we continue to investigate the impact of PCI Express on the Mac audio and music world. Recording & Remixing With Ableton Live Ableton Live Notes & Techniques In the first instalment of this two-part article, we examine how you can use Live as a conventional digital audio workstation. South The SOS team get busy at the London studio of a band called South, by transforming the sound of their troublesome monitoring room. Part 6 We continue exploring what your sampler's synth engine can do to liven up bland self-sampled sounds, and explain the concepts of layering and multitimbrality. Tomorrow's Musicians & What They'll Be Playing Controllers Of The Future The New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference has been running for five years, and is a great place to see and discuss new ideas that may provide the musical controllers of the future. SOS was in Vancouver to learn more... Using Sonar 5's Cyclone Loop Tool Sonar Notes & Techniques The Cyclone 'groove sampler' DXi, bundled free with Sonar, is a powerful tool that allows loops of all kinds to be dissected, manipulated and generally bent to your will... Digidesign (Avid) Pro Tools Tips & Techniques This Pro Tools workshop is the first in a series where we will explain how to use Digidesign's DAW to work to picture. First of all, we look at the decisions you need to make in setting up your system. Sound Advice
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