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Following in the footsteps of Roland, Emu and Korg, Ensoniq have now taken the plunge into plug-in hardware with the latest release, the 16-bit Soundscape card for the PC. Paul Nagle puts it through its paces.
With such a huge market to aim at, no software house can ignore the PC musician. Paul Nagle checks out Emagic's latest upgrade for Windows workers.
A synth editor program for your computer can expand your synthesis horizons and encourage you to discard those presets in favour of original creations. But what if you have more than one synth — surely it's going to cost a fortune buy an editor for each? Not necessarily, as Paul Nagle finds out.
Paul Nagle puts the case for the IBM PC as a music computer, but admits that not all is sweetness and light.
Paul Nagle looks at adding MIDI and sounds to your PC setup.
Paul Nagle's two-part review of Clavia's Nord Modular; an affordable modular hardware synth whose selection of modules and signal routing is user‑definable in software, offering the synthesist staggering scope for sound design.
Modern synths are undeniably powerful, but for many users that power remains locked in by non-intuitive digital parameter access editing. Paul White and Paul Nagle check out a pair of knob-equipped hardware programmers that could reveal hidden depths for Microwave and Matrix 1000 owners.
These files accompany the Sample Library articles in the December 2015 issue of SOS.
Altus, Cantus and Shevannai are three voice‑based sample libraries in Kontakt format. Created by Eduardo Tarilonte, who...
We check out the Tascam iU2 audio interface, and sneak a peak at Reactable's Mobile tactile synth for iOS and Android.
These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the April 2016 issue of SOS.