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The new Wavedrum costs a fraction of the price of its predecessor and remains a sonic force to be reckoned with.
LA Scoring Strings hopes to set itself apart from the competition with clever devices that make it both more realistic and more user-friendly.
The Ohm64 is the latest in a recent rash of grid-based control surfaces. Does it stand out from the crowd?
The introduction of MaxMSP adds an entirely new dimension to Live. We take a look at whats already been created in the three months since its release.
Put your own stamp on synthesized sounds with Logic Pro's powerful sound-modelling system, Sculpture.
What do you get when five American jazz musicians lock themselves in the studio with a collection of Steeleye Span albums? Through a series of reinventions, Midlake have won critical applause for their music and plaudits for their self-production skills.
This month, we show how manipulating the phase relationships of some tracks in your mix, plus a little disciplined pruning, can revitalise a flat-sounding track.
These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS April 2010.
Native Instruments bring you the classic drum sounds of Abbey Road, lovingly sampled at the studio itself.
Sample libraries are the modern media composers most important asset — so its a shame that using them in real-world projects can land you in legal hot water.
Some of the latest advances in electronic music technology have been geared towards acoustic music — played by robots. For his latest album, guitarist Pat Metheny assembled an entire automated orchestra to back him.
The silent studio is a real possibility now that solid-state drives are offering unrivalled transfer rates, free from mechanical noise. So why arent we all switching over?
Where so many sample developers struggle to combine musicality, usability, and value for money in a single product...
We conclude our tour of the new PT8 AIR plug-ins with neat tricks for filtered rhythmic gating, creating kick and snare tracks from a stereo drum mix, and widening electric guitars.
I'd like to use my monitors with both my audio interface and a CD player, because I want to A/B my recordings against my CD...
When clocking an audio interface using an external device, such as a stand‑alone mic preamp with A‑D conversion, is it better...
I'd like to buy a fairly inexpensive PC laptop for production when I'm on the move. Having never used a laptop for audio...
The way I mic up drum-kit overheads normally means that there is a slight level difference between the left and right gain...
I recently recorded a steel‑strung, finger‑picked acoustic guitar track. The problem is that it sounds very 'spiky' and I'm...