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Want to incorporate loops into your Samplitude Pro X2 projects? We show you how.
Working on Muse’s hit album Drones gave Tommaso Colliva and Rich Costey unique insight into the extraordinary methods of hitmaking producer ‘Mutt’ Lange.
Sample library creators are always trying to come up with fresh ideas for products, and this is possibly why Sample Logic...
The British are back! Spitfire Audio's orchestral percussion library flies the flag for the UK.
Korg's longstanding OASYS synthesis project has finally come to commercial fruition. The original plan, to produce a traditional stand-alone synthesizer, has given way to a computer-based synthesis and mixing environment running on a multi-DSP PCI card. Simon Trask takes refuge with the OASYS PCI...
Looking like a star cruiser, or something from the film 2001 (rather than just the year), Alesis' Andromeda is the first analogue polysynth that approaches the complexity of a digital workstation. But does analogue necessarily equate to quality?
Julian Colbeck sizes up the new offering from the prolific Korg camp, the latest to use the company's long-running A12 synthesis system. Is it just the same old stuff in the new box, or does the X3R have enough Unique Selling Points to justify its existence?
Paul White looks at how to customise Multi Instruments for a faster and more creative sequencing experience.
We explain some of the tricks and composition methods opened up by Sonar 8.5s new Matrix view.
Alesis presented an impressive range of new products at the NAMM show, including two new electronic drum kits. Both the...
Big bangs, shattering impacts, unabated racket, sonic mayhem, deliberate destruction... Pass the earplugs, it’s Heavyocity’s new library!
For the benefit of those adding a MIDI sequencer to their multitrack tape facilities, Paul White explains the various synchronisation options.
The unique sound world created by Future and engineer Seth Firkins has brought the Atlanta rapper record-breaking success.
This set of 40 hip‑hop backing‑track construction kits is the work of producer Soul‑G and includes Apple Loops, Acidised WAV and REX formats.
As iPhone-mania continues to grip the world, developers have been releasing music-related applications, some of which offer a surprising level of sophistication. Forget the idea of a laptop studio — it's time for the pocket studio!
Recording Sinéad O’Connor’s breakthrough hit was easy in some ways, but difficult in others — for example, all compression was forbidden...
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The snappily titled Kaossillator is the latest in Korg's range of Kaoss Pad-based products. The palm-sized unit is...
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