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The ear‑catching tempo changes of LF System’s hit ‘Afraid To Feel’ provided a unique challenge for mix engineer Scott Rosser.
Veteran software Mellotron specialists GForce have recreated the sounds of the earliest models with startling accuracy.
Extreme close miking can be an aesthetic choice or an uncomfortable necessity. Either way, it’s important to know how to get it right.
Film composer, theatre composer, TV composer, ballet composer... Why be one when you can be them all?
MIDI is the universal language of the studio — and if you use hardware instruments, you need to understand it!
Novation’s compact keyboard gives you hands‑on control of FL Studio.
Do your productions lack texture and movement? Your DAW’s modulation plug‑ins might offer a solution.
Akai's latest instrument combines an MPC with a keyboard/synthesizer, and offers a complete standalone production environment.
Get your hands on DPA Microphones' brand new high SPL mic (worth £672$730), ideal for kick drums.
The capacitor microphone is an incredible feat of precision engineering. We go behind the scenes in Vienna to find out what makes it possible.
The keyboard version of the desktop version of the Quantum, is the Iridium Keyboard even better than the original synth?
Spark plug-in bundle brings classic processors and all-new instruments to non-DSP systems.
Latest version focuses on dedicated tools for dialogue editing, expands immersive audio capabilities and adds native Apple silicon support.
Quantum is similar in concept to Eventide’s Physion, in that it can split sounds into attack transients and sustain components...
Oberheim are back, and doing what they do best — making massive polysynths with a massive sound.
Novation’s first attempt at an 88‑note controller keyboard seems to get everything right.
Every studio needs at least one good vocal mic. Is Audix’s A231 the right choice for yours?
The frequencies of overtones in a normal harmonic series are directly related to integer multiples of the fundamental frequency. In contrast, inharmonicity is the extent to which the frequencies of individual overtones deviate from integer multiples of the fundamental frequency.
In a musical context, percussion instruments such as chimes or cymbals often create strong inharmonic overtones, but the effect is also present in many other instruments, most notably the piano, and is directly responsible for the concept of stretch-tuning.
The MPC Key isn’t just an MPC with a keyboard, it’s a completely new species of workstation.