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You can back up a Pro Tools session like any other file, but will it still be readable in 10 years’ time? Here’s how to make sure.
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You can back up a Pro Tools session like any other file, but will it still be readable in 10 years’ time? Here’s how to make sure.

SOS contributor Mike Senior offers some advice.

In order to back up my Mac, I used a backup utility (Carbon Copy Cloner), in addition to using Time Machine to create incremental backups...

Having reinvented the 500-series rack with their Workhorse, Radial are now offering a smaller, more portable version...

Reaper’s pitch tools can be creative — or corrective.

Reason is becoming a much more rounded DAW, and one of the main areas to benefit is mastering.

The interview-style text is divided into 30 chapters, each comprising a mini interview-format documentary on the making of a classic album. Edited by Kylee Swenson Gordon, a well-known US music journalist.

Sometimes you yearn for new sounds that haven't been heard before. Resonance: Emotional Mallets most definitely falls into this category, starting life as 14 unique instruments constructed from materials including glass, metal, stone and wood.


Roland have updated their celebrated electronic drum kits with an improved brain and their patented Supernatural Sound technology.

Samplitude Pro X has several powerful tools for compiling the perfect performance from multiple takes.

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This month, we record a jazz big band on location, tracing the project from the planning stages through to delivering edited multitracks to the mix engineer.
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Discover Sonar X2’s Quick Groups and Auto-Zoom updates — and become more efficient.

The computer is no more than a passing fad.

Inside the recording studio where the likes of David Bowie, Lou Reed and Steely Dan made their albums.

Want to fake a 12-string guitar in Studio One, or create the perfect octave-divider effect? Keep reading…

This month: Newton Faulkner, Paloma Faith, Nicki Minaj, Coldplay and Rita Ora.

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