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We bring our series on rediscovering the the art of sampling to a close, with a look into the future.
The perfect project studio doesn't exist, as everyone has different working methods — and so it is with equipment for creating music for picture. However, there are some fundamental bits of gear you will need. We provide some guidance...
This month David Lowdon's synth-pop song gets the SOS makeover treatment.
With version 2 of Guitar Rig, Native Instruments are taking amp modelling into the realms of modular synthesis.
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...
We revisit the subject of IRQ sharing, to see if the problems it used to cause for musicians have been solved — as well as discussing a partitioning controversy...
Many of today's most interesting and popular audio-processing techniques are achieved with plug-ins. This month, we look at how you'd go about recreating some of them in Digital Performer, and continue our coverage of more unusual plug-in features.
If you need more audio interfacing, do you really have to trash an interface that's otherwise perfectly satisfactory and buy a bigger one? Maybe not, as ways of using several smaller interfaces together are becoming easier to find.
We test another group of hot plug-ins: Universal Audio Dimension D • Ugo Rez, Texture, String Theory & Motion • TC Electronic VSS3 Stereo Source Reverb.
You've got your system set up, and you've received the video files from the director. This month we explain how to get the video and its associated sound files into a Pro Tools Session ready for you to start work.
During a rare occasion out of the studio last week, I managed to catch a cold. This would not normally be a problem, only I had some very important work to complete and mix by the end of the week. Are there any recommended products or remedies (apart from hiring another mix engineer!) to use in this situation?
I am a guitarist and I want to buy a four-track digital recorder for less than £300. Do you have any recommendations?
I remain baffled by the CPU load in Cubase SX 2. I'm particularly curious to know why in my larger projects the VST Performance indicator shows a constant load (typically 80 percent or more) even when I'm not playing anything back!
I have been experiencing some big problems with latency whilst trying to use Cubase SX. I would be grateful for any help or advice you can offer me.
Every article I have read on the subject of mixing states that you want to have an 'uncoloured' room sound. So wouldn't it be better to mix using headphones, which will have no issues with room acoustics at all?
I read Tom Flint's piece on the Zoom MRS1608 multitracker and think it may be the right machine for me. I still use a...
Tried and trusted design principles have been combined with quality components to create this new range of high-spec studio monitors.
Reason can be a simple yet surprisingly sophisticated mastering suite — and not just for audio generated in the Reason environment.
Loopmasters Afro-Latin Producer • Tekniks The Mixtape Toolkit • Big Fish Audio Funk City • Big Fish Audio Big Beat 2
How I learned to stop worrying and love distortion...