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Apple are holding seminars in the UK in late October and November to emphasise what the Mac platform has to offer the guitar-based musician.
TL Audio have resurrected the Fat Man name, launching two new affordable valve processors at the AES show in New York.
Sibelius Software will be visiting universities and conservatoires in the UK from October to December to show off Sibelius 4, the latest version of their popular music notation software.
A compact active monitor for high-quality listening at low-to-medium sound levels.
We explore a powerful Audio Units plug-in host application you might not realise you already own, called AU Lab. Plus news of the multi-button Apple mouse and Intel architecture changes...
The Hollies were the third artist in as many years to cut Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood's pop ballad, yet it was their version that became a worldwide top 10 hit. In 1974, Alan Parsons was behind the mixing desk at Abbey Road for the recording.
We look at how to use the facilities available to Cubase's MIDI tracks to recreate certain master keyboard functions.
Sometimes the click can steal the life from a session, so why not start with a live performance?
This new set of high-resolution drum mics is also versatile enough for many general recording tasks.
Continuing the recent tradition for wedding software-instrument front ends to vast sample libraries, Ra is a 14Gigabyte collection of exotic and 'world' instruments with an NI Kompakt wrapper...
Echo are the latest soundcard manufacturer to move into the market for Firewire interfaces, and the flagship of their range promises 12-channel analogue I/O with pristine sound quality.
Last month we discussed how to prepare mixes so that they are ready for the mastering engineer. This month, we look inside the mastering room during the processing of an album, to see what kind of equipment is used, and the sort of processes that are applied to finish the tracks to the required standard.
Hollow Sun's vintage keyboard sounds go against all the current sample-library trends, being supplied on CD-ROM rather than on dedicated hard drives, and weighing in at Megabytes in size, not Gigabytes. But how do they sound...?
SOS's Editor In Chief advocates that music computers should operate more like efficient secretaries than a Dan Brown novel...
The new Tiger AUPitch plug-in promises better pitch-shifting performance, but does it deliver in practice?
The price of MIDI keyboard controllers has tumbled over the past few years, and Ion clearly feel it's time the same thing happened to MIDI drum kits. Their IED01 costs £299 and includes five pads, two pedals, and the stand!
Mixing and automating complicated projects can be made simpler if you use 'stems'. What are they and how do you do it? Read on...
Production pioneers Massive Attack are going through exciting times — they've built an awesome recording studio, moved into surround soundtrack work, and they have a new album on the way. We take a spin around their new workspace.
Having introduced the concept of looping, velocity switching, and multisampling, it's time to actually make some samples. We give you a few hard-won tips that can make your life easier on the way.