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Housed on a single DVD, US sample-house Big Fish Audio's Hip Hop Mood Swings contains 40 hip-hop (in case you hadn't guessed)...
Working with a mouse and keyboard neednt compromise real-time control, as Sugar Bytes clever interface design demonstrates.
Whats black and white and red all over? Behringers fantastically cheap new audio interface and MIDI controller, of course!
Divinity World Percussion captures the enthusiasm of half a dozen talented world musicians playing a wide variety of...
Can controllers this tiny and toy-like in appearance really do a serious job in the studio?
This neat new hybrid product appears to be defining its own market niche, but can it really be all things to all people?
Line 6 BackTrack is a single-channel, Flash-memory audio recorder that’s tailored to the needs of guitar players and songwriters. Designed to sit in-line with your guitar (it has an instrument input impedance), it records everything you play as soon as audio is detected. Check out our test report...
If you are a piano player who's keen to find the best sampled pianos available, the odds are that you will have at least tried...
These portable digital recorders are tiny, convenient, and they look great... but are Yamaha's latest gizmos any good for musicians?
We've reviewed a number of the Sonivox (and, under their previous label, Sonic Implants) libraries in recent times, including...
As well as creating some excellent new plug-ins and making operational improvements, Cakewalk have been working hard to make Sonar 8 the most CPU-efficient version yet.
Genoqs take a unique approach to hardware sequencing, as weve seen previosuly from their Octopus sequencer. Now theyre back with a smaller and far more affordable model: the Nemo.
The M3 workstation, already a powerful beast, has gained impressive new features and an Xpanded name tag. Is it now top of its class?
Peter Siedlaczek's Advanced Orchestra was the must-have orchestral library for several years and set new standards for the...
Getting the balance right between the benefits and disadvantages of ported and non-ported speaker designs is a tricky job, and K+H do it better than most with this ported model.
As well as the new user interface, MIDI and score editors described in Part 1 of our review, Pro Tools 8 offers an impressive collection of instruments and plug-ins, new ways of working with Playlists, and even the option of surround mixing in LE.
This new brand by revered high-end equipment manufacturers API is much more affordable than their established lines. So there must be a catch, right?
This affordable range of digital guitar and bass effects pedals offers good, dependable results — and there are a few hidden gems as well. Read on...
The successor to G-Forces popular M-Tron instrument brings dual layers and subtractive synthesis to the Mellotron party — but also manages to keep authenticity firmly in mind...
Prominy have put 64 Gigabytes of lovingly sampled Stratocaster into their SC instrument. That's a lot of Stratocaster — so does the sonic end justify the means?