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    Digidesign Pro Tools 4.0

    Digital Audio Software Upgrade

    There are now more options on the market than ever before for anyone wishing to indulge in hard disk recording and editing. Paul D. Lehrman previews the latest update for the popular Pro Tools system, designed to keep Digidesign on top amidst increasing competition.

    Reviews Dec 1996
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    Emagic Logic Audio 2.5

    Software

    Most of the major music software manufacturers now recognise the PC as a serious music platform and are ensuring that the PC versions of the software don't miss out on any important features. Paul White gives an overview of the latest Logic Audio for Windows '95 and compares it with the Mac version.

    Reviews Nov 1996
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    Opcode Vision 2.5

    Software

    One of the Mac world's sequencing front-runners, Vision has been ported to the PC, where it faces some stiff competition from the established packages. Paul Nagle goes all visionary...

    Reviews Sep 1996
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    Bias Peak

    Digital Audio Editing Software

    With its flexible, professional sound design tools and moderate price, Peak fills a gap in the Mac digital sound editing arena. Paul D. Lehrman gets some peak practice...

    Reviews Sep 1996
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    Steinberg Wavelab

    Digital Recording & Editing Software

    This sophisticated new digital editor is up against such established software as Sound Forge and Samplitude Studio. Janet Harniman-Cook assesses whether Steinberg have built on their status in the sequencer field with a successful PC wave editing program.

    Reviews Aug 1996
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    Steinberg Cubase VST

    Audio Sequencer

    This year's show-stealer at Frankfurt's Musik Messe, Steinberg's Cubase VST isn't just another 'MIDI plus Audio' sequencer — it adds the effects and processing options hitherto only available in expensive TDM systems, for the same price as the previous, non-audio version of Cubase. Is this the perfect desktop recording environment? Derek Johnson and Debbie Poyser find out.

    Reviews Jul 1996
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    Digidesign Session; Digidesign Audiomedia III

    Digital Recording Software; PCI Card

    Digidesign's Session digital recording software has now made the transition from Apple Macintosh to Windows-compatible PCs, a feat made possible by the simultaneous release of the company's first PCI-format digital I/O card, the Audiomedia III. Paul White checks out both.

    Reviews Jul 1996
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    Passport Alchemy 3

    Sample Editor

    Now that Sound Designer II no longer provides sampler support, the way is clear for an improved version of the veteran Alchemy software. Mike Collins thinks it's worth its weight in gold.

    Reviews Jun 1996
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    Cakewalk Pro Audio v4.01

    Sequencing Software

    With the addition of digital audio, version 4.0 of this popular, PC-based sequencing package isn't so much a cake as a chocolate gateau. Janet Harniman-Cook takes a walk in the Black Forest...

    Reviews Jun 1996
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    Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 3

    Digital Audio Editing Software

    A major upgrade of this PC program makes it appeal to amateurs and professionals alike — but also provides some exciting pointers to the future of desktop audio. Dennis Miller takes a quantum leap in the dark...

    Reviews May 1996
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    Steinberg Cubase Score

    Software

    Cubase, in its many guises, has established itself as an industry standard on Apple and Atari platforms, and now looks set to be the benchmark by which other PC sequencers will be judged. Kevin Pawsey investigates what Steinberg has to offer the score-producing musician.

    Reviews Apr 1996
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    TDM Software Plug-ins

    Digidesign Pro Tools, Part 2

    Mike Collins concludes his look at the available TDM software plug-ins, concentrating this month on those made by third-party manufacturers.

    Reviews Mar 1996
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    Opcode Digitrax, OSC Deck II & Digidesign Session

    Apple Mac Software Roundup

    Several software houses are producing modestly priced programs which take advantage of the audio capabilities fo the Apple Power Macs. The result can be high-quality multitrack digital audio at a suprisingly low cost. Paul D. Lehrman finds he's got the Power...

    Reviews Mar 1996
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    Opcode Studio Vision Pro v3.0

    Software

    The new version of Opcode's flagship sequencer/ hard disk recording package almost extinguishes the differences between audio and MIDI recordings, allowing unprecedented control over your compositions. A hitherto MIDI-only Martin Russ broadens his horizons...

    Reviews Mar 1996
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    TDM Software Plug-ins

    Digidesign Pro Tools, Part 1

    The all-digital, computer-based recording studio is no longer a distant future possibility. Thanks to digidesign's TAM buss, many of the processing capabilities of a traditional studio setup are now available as computer software plug-ins. In the first of this two-part feature, Mike Collins takes us through some of the available options.

    Reviews Feb 1996
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    MOTU Freestyle

    PC Sequencer

    This unconventional sequencer program aims to let musicians work like musicians rather than computer programmers, and has already met with an enthusiastic response in its original Mac version. Paul Nagle hand-picks his virtual musicians and gets jamming.

    Reviews Jan 1996
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