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If you're looking to record high-quality audio to your portable Minidisc or MP3 recorder, then this small battery-powered stereo mic could be just what you are looking for.

Dual-core processors hold the key to unprecedented performance with music applications. But how do systems based around Intel's Pentium D, like this one from Millennium Music, compare with their AMD-based rivals?

Several unusual new technologies have been combined in this new product from Fostex to create an accurate mixing tool.

Apogee's new converter builds on the reputation of the original PSX100 and Rosetta units, upgrading the sonics and adding a pile of new facilities, including sophisticated jitter-reduction processing and sample-rate conversion.

Combining frequency and ring modulation with analogue-style resonant filtering, Image Line's Sytrus takes FM synthesis in new directions.

Most recent electric piano virtual instruments have been sample-based, but in Lounge Lizard, AAS continue to fly the flag for their physical modelling technology; version 3 offers an improved fork model, plus modelled electromagnetic and electrostatic pickups...

If you need a new way of adapting the feel of a loop, or you want decent pitch-shifting and time-stretching on a budget, Psoft's inexpensive utility might be for you.

Etymotic Research, leading makers of high-quality earphones, recommend their ER4S model for in-ear stage-monitoring use. We find out whether hearing is believing.

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This traditionally-designed mixer/amp packs quite a punch, with 1400W of power under the hood, and also boasts very sturdy construction and built-in digital effects.

The ART T8 is a simple 1U rackmount box containing eight transformers which you can use to break ground loops.

Hate mixing by mouse? Intatouch's neat monitor add-on allows you to draw control data directly onto the screen.

This unit from Coleman Audio makes a mark with its sonic integrity, despite its apparent lack of operational frills.

The new version of Steinberg's virtual sound module brings more and better instruments, without sacrificing convenience or ease of use.

We test this affordable complete vocal PA you can carry from the car to the stage in one trip!

Sample libraries with virtual-instrument wrappers are nothing new, but Ueberschall's new Liquid Instruments have an extra twist — the front end is derived from Celemony's Melodyne, offering you complete freedom to change the pitch of the phrases in the library.

With W2, Wizoo's aim is to combine the realism of convolution reverb with the flexibility of an algorithmic design.

Tried and trusted design principles have been combined with quality components to create this new range of high-spec studio monitors.

Novation have an elegant solution to the tedium of configuring hardware controllers — the Remote 25SL can read your sequencer and automatically map plug-in instrument parameters to its controls. Is this the first 'intelligent' hardware control surface? We find out...

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