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Paul White discovers that it's good to talk, especially when you have some help from Digitech.
Martin Walker peers through the Windows version of Emagic's Logic Audio 3.
Paul White previews a new digital conversion technique designed to provide high-resolution sounds without the need for extravagant sampling frequencies.
As well as providing eight independent sets of MIDI connections, the Unitor 8 features comprehensive synchronisation facilities and even supports video timecode. Paul White explores the Ins and Outs of it.
Debbie Wiseman has been described as Britain's most prolific and emotionally charged film composer, with a long list of TV and cinema credits that belies her age, including the recent Oscar Wilde biopic.
The debate's been going on for as long as drum machines have been around: can they really sound human? Nicholas Rowland takes jazz drumming as his test case and tries to find out.
Many musicians now have digital audio in their studios, so Midiman have decided to help them interface cleanly to the outside world, with the bizarrely named Flying Cow. Martin Walker thinks it cud be a winner...
Nearly two years after everybody else jumped on the Power Mac bandwagon, Mark Of The Unicorn have finally come on board with their flagship sequencer, which will now record and play back audio without the need for external hardware. Has it been worth the wait? Derek Johnson finds out.
Prosoniq, the German software company behind many of the DSP processing alogrithms used in MIDI + Audio sequencers, have now made the powerful fruits of their expertise available in stand-alone form. But can the software actually be put to good use? Paul D. Lehrman investigates.
While Roland's A70 in its basic form is a well-equipped but dumb controller, it can metamorphose into a Roland JV-style synth, a General MIDI synth, or a piano at the drop of an expansion board. Paul Ward has a controlling interest....
Paul White finds he has a crush on the Smart Research C2 compressor — but at what cost?
Akai build on their years of expertise in stand-alone digital recorders with a truly portable personal multitracker offering a digital mixer and 12 tracks of audio on a removable-media drive. David Mellor takes it away.
Spectral Audio's internet homepage includes a large graphic, stating, rather menacingly, 'Rave or Die'. Christopher Holder meets the new Syntrack monosynth and decides death can wait.
With a feature list longer than most people's arms, the EWS64 XL has whetted plenty of appetites. Martin Walker dismantles his PC once again in the search for the ultmate soundcard.
Few keyboard instruments are as fascinating and awe‑inspiring as the Hammond B3. The combination of ingenious electro...
Despite the huge technological advances over the last two decades, it's surprising how many SOS gear lists have...
With their latest super-mini effects processor, Italian manufacturer Viscount goes head to head with the Alesis Nanoverb on looks and the Zoom 1201 on price. Tom Flint grabs a pizza the action...