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Nashville Recording
Recording & Production Insights From Nashville's Top Engineers
Nashville is still a place of legend when it comes to music. Although overall sales of the city's flagship genre, country music, have dipped somewhat from their mid-'90s peak, Nashville still has a recording legacy matched by few cities in the world.
Published October 2002
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Markus Popp: Music As Software
Oval
According to Oval's Markus Popp, traditional definitions and categories are inadequate when it comes to evaluating electronic music. Instead, his highly conceptual projects aim to make us understand music in terms of the software processes used to produce it.
Published October 2002
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The Truth About Latency: Part 2
Latency & Latency Jitter: Real-world Tests
In the second part of our investigation into the real-world delays caused by PC hardware and software, we consider the differences between different MIDI applications and versions of Windows. Are some sequencers really 'tighter' than others?
Published October 2002
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Q&A October 2002
Your Technical Questions Answered
Should I buy a second-hand tape recorder or cheap digital multitracker? How can I stop my speakers from 'booming'? Should the earth pin in an XLR plug be soldered to the shell? How reliable is the word clock on Yamaha's SW1000XG? Can you advise me about connecting a classic Leslie to a VK8?
Published October 2002
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EastWest / QL Voices Of The Apocalypse
Sample Library
***** Score = 5/5 stars. A choral library with a difference. VOTA aims to provide the composer with the samples needed to recreate the sound of a Hollywood choir.
Published October 2002
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Big Fish Audio Breakbeat 3
Sample Library
**** Score = 4/5 stars. To save wading through the stacks of unwanted vinyl at the local charity shop, Big Fish Audio have produced Breakbeat 3, a two-CD set of live drum loops.
Published October 2002
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PMI Grandioso Steinway Model D
Sample Library
**** 4/5 stars. Post Musical Instruments' Grandioso is a sampled piano library, which modestly claims to be "the best sampled piano ever"...
Published October 2002
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LA Riot: The Funky Drummers
Sample Library
* Score = 1/5. Format: Audio. Over three hours of warm and punchy drumming well suited for modern pop, electronica or hip-hop...
Published October 2002
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London Orchestral Percussion
Sample Library
**** Score = 4/5 stars. LOP is a superior, consistently played, musically thorough and sensibly programmed library.
Published October 2002
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SM Pro Audio FX01 Prism
Programmable Multi-effects Processor
A new company adds another affordable effects unit to the market. But does it have what it takes to compete with the established big names?
Published October 2002
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Sounding Off: Who 'Owns' A Sample?
Chris Eccles
Copyright law may be very rigid these days, but in the context of creativity, who actually 'owns' a sample?
Published October 2002
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Spectrasonics Stylus
Plug-in Groove Instrument
Spectrasonics' new software instruments are based around a vast library of sampled material, but also contain enough processing options to make them more like virtual synths. We check out the rhythm-oriented Stylus...
Published October 2002
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Studio SOS: Boxy Vocals & A Weedy Mix
Nick Tucker
The SOS team rushes to the rescue of a reader in Somerset suffering from boxy vocals, a weedy mix, and a dodgy tweeter.
Published October 2002
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Synthesizing Pianos
Synth Secrets
Surely the only convincing synth pianos are sample-based ones? A sound as rich and expressive as that of an acoustic piano is far too complex to be rendered by subtractive synthesis... isn't it? Let's find out...
Published October 2002
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Vermona MARS & MARS Control
Analogue Synth Module & Controller
The German team behind the inexpensive MARS have been responsible for several SOS-reviewed products in the past, although the MARS is the first under their own brand name Vermona. But is it more of a Trabant than an Audi?
Published October 2002
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Yamaha 02R96
Digital Mixing Console
After seven years, one of the most successful digital consoles has been completely overhauled, improving the sound quality and ergonomics, and catering for new high-resolution and surround-sound formats.
Published October 2002
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Yamaha AW16G
Digital Audio Workstation
First there was the 4416, then the 2816. Now Yamaha have announced a baby brother for their AW audio workstations, in the form of the AW16G.
Published October 2002
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Roger Linn Design AdrenaLinn
Filter, Effects, Amp Modeller & Drum Box
It's a sequenceable filter, it's an amp modeller, and it's a drum machine... it's the AdrenaLinn, the new guitar processor from famed designer Roger Linn, best known for his classic drum machines and sequencing workstations.
Published September 2002
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Akai MPC4000
Sampling Workstation
Akai's MPC sampling workstations have been a studio fixture for nearly 15 years, and the MPC4000 is the most powerful one yet. But the world of sampling has changed dramatically since the MPC2000XL was released. Can an MPC still cut it in the 21st century?
Published September 2002