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One of the most useful things any audio engineer can carry around is a test disc to check the alignment of equipment, and to...
If you need to add a MIDI interface to a Mac, it has to be external — there is no Mac equivalent of a Soundblaster 16...
If you've ever read a hi‑fi magazine, you'll have seen advertisements for cables that cost more than the gear they are...
Volume Seven in the Twiddly Bits series is a real mixed bag of performance data, loops, grooves and riffs that come under the...
Over the last fifteen years or so, we have probably all gathered some awareness of the workings of digital audio systems...
DI boxes are essential pieces of studio kit, but they don't all do the same job. For DI'ing an electric guitar or bass that...
This DJ mixer boasts powerful effects and BPM-driven MIDI control software. Wearing the Trousers, Paul Farrer finds out more...
If you want more of everything digital, why not try 24-bit recording at a 96kHz sample rate? Martin Walker is floored as his dynamics increase in leaps and bounds.
One of two General MIDI modules are simply a cut above the rest, and Roland's high-end Sound Canvases fit right into this category. Paul White retires to the studio with the latest in the line and dips into a seemingly limitless palette of sound...
As the popularity of the ADAT optical 8-channel digital interface has grown, so PCI soundcards have appeared to transfer audio into this format and out of computers. Previous cards have included one optical connector, but Sonorus's STUDI/O has two, permitting 16-channel operation. Martin Walker makes light work of his optical cables.
Paul White finds the best of both valve and solid state worlds in TL Audio's latest compressor.
When Yamaha Launched the A3000 a year ago their approach won quite a few fans, and now they're demonstrating their renewed commitment to sampling with a comprehensive upgrade. Chris Carter's movin' on up...
If you thought home keyboards were all about cheesy organ presets and bossanova backbeats the chances are you are just like Paul Farrer, but as he takes the wraps of Yamaha's new baby and rotates his baseball cap by 180 degrees he is astonished to find that he was completely and utterly wrong...
Rupert Cook tells the Luddites among us to stop complaining and defragment our hard drives.
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.