
Q. Why is my music PC booting to the BIOS?
I have a tower PC that I had built specially for music production a few years ago. It used to work fine, but now I have to boot it twice before I can get Windows running.
To find the exact phrase, put the words in quotes or join them together with a plus sign e.g. live+recording or "live recording".
To find, say, all live recording articles that mention Avid, enter: live+recording +avid - and use sidebar filters to narrow down searches further.

I have a tower PC that I had built specially for music production a few years ago. It used to work fine, but now I have to boot it twice before I can get Windows running.

I’ve had this a few of times now! I assume I need to do a better job of cleaning away all that detritus, but is there a ‘right’ way to do it?

I’m about to flex my credit card and get a Tascam Studio Bridge, but I need an SD card for it. What should I be buying to get the best performance without wasting money?

Elegantly combining analogue and digital, and balancing programming with performance, the TR‑1000 is the best drum machine Roland have ever made.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Toontrack model a four‑string bass with two pairs of octave strings here and have used a Schecter model as the sound source for this library.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Sonora Cinematic Transfigured Orchestra Vol 2 delivers what are termed Hybrid Gestures, some of which have been treated using further processing or created from hybrids of other sounds.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Pocket Strings places only very modest demands on system resources, the idea being to provide a portable string instrument which packs a creative punch.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Vivaldi’s Solo Violin is a refined and expressive violin library that brings the essence of Baroque string writing into the modern producer’s toolkit.

Singular Sound’s revamped drum generator offers top‑quality sound and flexible playback options.

Spitfire have teamed up with composers the Newton Brothers to create something that’s truly terrifying.

What does the latest version of Cubase have in common with the 1982 science fiction movie Tron?

We’re decades into the age of the DAW, but outboard channel strips remain popular for good reasons — and there are plenty to choose from.

This pedalboard‑friendly DI interface has been designed specifically for interfacing amp modellers and electronic instruments with PA and recording systems.

Sicilian composer, producer and instrumentalist Donato Di Trapani is best known internationally as synthesist and keyboard player for Paolo Nutini, but he is also the co‑founder and resident producer at Indigo Studios in Palermo, where he and Nutini first met.

Studio One has everything you need to produce professional‑sounding podcasts.

The Swiss Museum of Electronic Instruments is the synth wonder of the world.

With an understanding of spaced and coincident stereo arrays, we can exploit the characteristics of both — using either established arrays, or by creating our own!

Zero‑G’s popular hybrid scoring toolkit gets a significant upgrade.

Zoom’s smallest LiveTrak ever is a mobile production powerhouse.

A ground‑up reinvention turns SoundFlow from an advanced macro engine into an intelligent, context‑aware virtual assistant.