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The head of the design team behind the Lexicon Studio talks to Paul White about the Lexicon sound and the benefits of the Studio approach — and offers some practical tips on optimising PCs for audio recording.
Following on from last month's look at digital tape recording formats, Hugh Robjohns turns the spotlight on the techniques and technology of disk-based recording.
What do you need to put together to create your own studio? Paul White investigates practical options for a core system based on preferred methods of creating music.
Are programmers musicians? Marius de Vries certainly thinks so, and he's better qualified than most to air an opinion. Paul Tingen meets the man who's lent his talents to everyone from Madonna to Massive Attack.
Controller freak Nicholas Rowland wiggles his magic mod wheel and transforms your sequenced sounds into something just a little more spellbinding...
Nick Howes of Yamaha's European Music Software Division shows you how to get the best out of XG soundcards.
If your MIDI data refuses to emerge properly from the end of the cable, why not try these handy tips. Martin Walker helps you thru your Ins and Outs.
Good news, good news and more good news. Martin Russ just can't believe his luck.
This month, after a bit of clock-watching, Martin Walker looks at a utility which should keep your PC running for longer; Norton Utilities.
Janet Harniman-Cook goes great guns with the latest version of Twelve Tone's popular MIDI + Audio recording software for PC owners.
There is now a bewildering array of audio options inside most PC audio recording packages, and if you understand the reasoning behind them you can get a bit (or even a few bits) more quality out of your hard drive audio. Martin Walker explains.
Paul White looks at how you can calculate how much studio acoustic treatment you really need.
If you're after sonic strangeness, ring modulation is a good place to start. Paul White finds out whether the ColOSCIL sounds as big as its name.
Not even the best monitor speakers guarantee good monitoring &mdash so how do you ensure that you're mixing on the best possible system? Mixmeister Martin Walker leaks some top speaker tweaks...
In the penultimate part of his series on synthesizer technology, Paul Wiffen turns his attention to the problem of emulating acoustic instruments in which the sound is produced by a string or reed, and amplified and modified by the body of the instrument.
If the best things in life are free, then perhaps Pro Tools 3.4 is one of them — Digidesign are now giving away this version of their Mac audio recording and editing software. Mike Collins looks a gift horse in the mouth.
Paul White switches on to a box which provides a dash of extra source for the smaller mixing desk.
As Lexicon introduce new processors to replace the acclaimed PCM80 and PCM90, Paul White takes a look at how these classic units have been further improved to create the PCM81 and 91.