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The new version of Steinberg's virtual sound module brings more and better instruments, without sacrificing convenience or ease of use.
Native Instruments' Kontakt has become one of the most popular software samplers since its release in 2002, and the new version, with its many excellent new features, should keep it near the top of the heap.
The business of TV and film is changing fast, and production or library music is becoming ever more important. One of the UK's most experienced production music composers explains how to get your foot in the door.
Members of the UK's Music Producers Guild offer their constructive comments about more SOS readers' recordings...
Whether you're buying or building, deciding what should go inside an audio PC isn't easy, so we asked some leading experts for their advice...
Tired of trying to make money, Caro Emerald's production team chose to make music they loved. The result was a worldwide hit album...
The fifth version of Absynth introduces even more sound-mangling features and aims to be far more user-friendly than its predecessors. Has it succeeded? Read on...
Blockbuster video game Horizon Zero Dawn took six years to make, and required its three composers to invent an entirely new sound world.
In all the hullabaloo over the wizardry that brought long-dead reptiles back to life for last year's smash TV success Walking With Dinosaurs, the story of the production of the musical score from a small home studio — a tale no less impressive than behind the programme's visuals — was overlooked. Matt Bell sets the record straight with composer Ben Bartlett.
Arturia have revived a classic string synth in software, and the result is the Solina V.
The Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper’s album was mixed twice on its original release. So why mix it again, 50 years on?
One of our engineers aims for a big sound from the smallest of acoustic drum kits, as he sets about creating a drum sample library...
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When the Korg Trinity was launched more than a year ago, the list of expansions it would be able to host seemed too good to be true. Now they're all finally available, Paul Wiffen takes stock of the options.
As its name implies, the Montage combines multiple technologies within a single, powerful instrument. But does it have what it takes to be the market leader Yamaha want it to be?
Composing for an animated series presents a different set of challenges to scoring for film or conventional TV. We look at what it takes to be a cartoon composer...
Is it better to buy fewer gigabytes of faster RAM, or more gigabytes of slightly slower RAM; for example, 6GB of 1066MHz...
Writing down every nuance of a guitarists performance is a challenge that can tax even the best notation software. Is Arobass Guitar Pro 6 the answer?
By the time you read this, he could be clutching his first Oscar for his soundtrack for the historic blockbuster Elizabeth. David Hirschfelder discourses with Richard Buskin about the art, science and pyschology of scoring for the moving image.
Tired of standard percussion sounds? Chromaphone lets you create your own.