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When studios are increasingly dominated by software, why are we still hanging on to hardware design paradigms?
Find out how to load REX files into Sonar, discover which digital audio editors work best with loops, and explore some useful envelope techniques.
For many years, German designer Stefan Moeller has been on a quest to perfectly emulate Brian May's guitar amp sound. Now, with TC's new TC Thirty plug-in for Powercore, he believes he's cracked it...
The SOS team apply themselves to the task of mixing Chinese traditional instruments with mainstream Western sounds at reader Jiang Li's home studio.
Tascam's new Digital Portastudio is the most affordable 24-track workstation on the market. In our exclusive hands-on review, we find out how easy it is to use, and whether its recording quality is as impressive as its track count.
Layering voices is one of the best ways to maximise the potential of your XG sound module, so here are a variety of ingenious ways you can use this technique — you can even turn your synth into a high-spec step sequencer!
Find out how to mike up a typical live band — and also discover when it's best to Direct Inject instead.
Effects can play just as important a role in sound creation as the elements in a synth's signal path — provided you have access to their constituent parts. We take a closer look at effects synthesis using simple delays.
If you've never investigated DP's Consoles feature, you may be missing out on interesting MIDI and Audio control possibilities. We explain, as well as introducing a couple of indispensable new utilities.
As a musician, engineer, producer and multimedia artist, Todd Rundgren has been a pioneering figure in rock music since the late 1960s. His first album of new material for 10 years was, like many of its groundbreaking predecessors, almost entirely played, produced and recorded by Rundgren alone.
The Keystation Pro 88 is an 88-note hammer-action MIDI controller which can be powered solely via USB
The NY2A is a stereo rackmount valve compressor, based around optical attenuators and six Electro-Harmonix vacuum tubes.
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The Glory Comp is a new, high-end mono all-tube compressor from Groove Tubes which features adjustable valve distortion.
Hammond UK are launching the new portable B3 organ and Leslie 21 rotary speaker in London on May the 8th, 2004
Digidesign's new Command 8 is a compact control surface for both Pro Tools LE and HD systems
Thanks to the currently favourable dollar/pound exchange rate, Turnkey, UK distributors for Bob Moog products, have been able to lower retail prices across the range
The latest addition to TC-Helicon's range of vocal processors packages their trademark technology in a brand-new format: a durable floormounting processor designed specifically for live use.
If the established pro applications are out of your price league, then this highly affordable stereo editor might prove a genuine alternative.