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Three more recently released libraries and virtual instruments get installed and tested to oblivion! • Muse • Chris Hein Guitars • Sample Lab Luscious Grooves: The Dark Side
• Duncan Miller & Tom Rodwell: Nightmares On Wax? • Jon Hopkins: Electronica Without MIDI
Spectrasonics' ambitious new sample-based power synth explores the realms of psychoacoustics and organic synthesis while running on a STEAM engine — what can this all mean? Let's find out...
Many limiters are designed to be as transparent as possible - but Inward Connections' TSL3 is built to sprinkle valve magic over your music.
For Jack White, analogue recording is not about looking back to the past, but choosing the ideal medium for his art.
Big Fish Audio First Call Horns • Best Service Galaxy Steinway 5.1• Big Fish Audio London Solo Strings • Tascam Larry Seyer Acoustic Drums
Can energy-efficient, environmentally friendly monitors really offer professional quality? Genelec certainly think so...
The quality and variety of orchestral string libraries continues to grow. Which one best suits your needs?
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.
Bruno Mars is the year’s hottest pop star, and one‑third of ace production team the Smeezingtons. Fellow Smeezington Ari Levine reveals how they created his hit album in a modest LA studio.
This compact ‘wedge’ speaker uses a coaxial driver to deliver broad stage coverage and a sound that cuts through.
Reaper’s pitch tools can be creative — or corrective.
Craig Sellwood from Newport, Wales is the lucky winner of the Dream Studio, the competition organised by SOS for the...
Jazz quintet Polar Bear have always been musical adventurers, and their latest album extends their experimental philosophy to studio techniques.
Big Fish Audio have already established a reputation for South American music sample libraries with their two 'Roots of South...
Roland bring their HandSonic percussion range bang up to date with the HPD20.
The recession of the early '90s was difficult for many companies — but not Roland. Diversifying still further from their roots as a maker of synthesizers and organs, they emerged stronger, encompassing almost every area of hi-tech musical instrument manufacture.
With the latest version of GarageBand, Apple have become the first company to integrate educational training into music-creation software. But is this merely a simple gimmick, or a powerful new way of learning to play an instrument?
Even with access to the best gear, and commercial experience under your belt, paying attention to your studios acoustics can still pay massive dividends...