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Ricky Damian is that rarest of things: a young engineer trained in all‑analogue recording. His experience stood him in good stead with Jorja Smith.
Cubase Pro 13 may be light on headline features, but its raft of small improvements makes it a worthwhile upgrade.
Musician, sound designer, educator and all‑round electronic sound sorceress, Lisa Bella Donna has built a reputation for herself as one of the most eminent synthesists anywhere.
Software synth devs release virtual version of Roland's classic Jupiter-4.
It's more than 20 years since the BBC closed their legendary Radiophonic Workshop, but its spirit lives on in the Radiophonic Room at Manchester's Eve Studios.
Black Rooster Audio's latest offering aims to both recreate and expand on the sounds offered by Roland's classic RE-201 Space Echo.
Recorded completely at home, Jyoti Mishra’s irresistibly catchy hit single ‘Your Woman’ inspired a generation of bedroom producers.
This dual‑distortion box is equally at home with guitars,synths and drum machines, on a dusted‑daily desktop or a filthy stage pedalboard...
With the UNO Synth Pro X, IK have upped their synth game and targeted ‘serious’ synthesists.
The Trinity is a three‑voice drum module with four separate synthesis algorithms to generate its sounds.
David Wrench’s goal as mix engineer was to make Blur sound like themselves!
An addition to the basic MIDI spec that allows Controllers 98 and 99 to be used to control non-standard parameters relating to particular models of synthesizer. This is an alternative to using System Exclusive data to achieve the same ends, though NRPNs tend to be used mostly by Yamaha and Roland instruments.
SynthFest UK is the biggest event of its type and returns to The Octagon, Sheffield on 8 October 2022.
A 'ROMpler' is a musical device that uses audio samples instead of oscillators for sound generation, with the sample waveforms stored in ROM (as opposed to RAM or equivalent). A ROMpler cannot sample audio to create new sounds, unlike a conventional 'Sampler'. The audio samples in a ROMpler are pre-loaded by the manufacturer. Most Romplers allow the mixing of different samples in layers, and to change the filters and envelopes, add effects etc. One advantage of a rompler is that there is no need to setup keymapping etc as that is all taken care of by the manufacturer.
The Roland JV1080 is a classic example of a ROMpler.
However, there is something of a grey area between Sampler and ROMpler since some instruments have no user-sampling capability yet new audio waveforms can be loaded by the user into the memory via a computer interface. The Yamaha SY85 is an old example of this kind of setup, while the Kurzweil K2700 is a more modern example.
Kurzweil’s new stage piano makes the case for simplicity as a virtue.
With the fourth generation of their Scarlett range, Focusrite continue to bring features that were once exclusively ‘professional’ to everyone.
Universal Audio add to their UAFX range with the launch of three new pedals, authentically modelling analogue delay, reverb and compression effects.
The FS-1-WL footswitch allows users to send wireless MIDI messages and custom key commands to computers, mobile devices, compatible Boss and Roland products, or a range of MIDI-capable hardware.
The latest delay pedals from Boss emulate the sound of the Roland SDE-3000 Digital Delay, with one model offering an authentic recreation of Eddie Van Halen's live amp and effects setup.