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Many classically trained musicians have ended up playing rock. Ólafur Arnalds' career has gone in the opposite direction...
Is Hammond’s XK-5 the best lightweight ‘clonewheel’ organ money can buy?
There’s a lot of hype about mic preamps, but there has never been a reliable way to compare them — until we got hold of the world’s cleverest piano...
An ambient dance track gets the Mix Rescue treatment this time, as SOS reader Mark Edwards finds out that less is definitely more.
We take a look inside one of the most famous studios in the world.
Roland's latest offering in the Juno range is, rather unexpectedly, aimed at the stage performer. The Juno Stage is a...
PreSonus is now shipping Notion 6, a major upgrade to its popular notation software that adds handwriting recognition and fuller integration with Studio One 3.3...
Think you need thousands to add a decent stereo ribbon mic to your collection? Think again...
Armed with nothing but an Atari, a pair of S950 samplers and his faithful TB303, Fatboy Slim took the charts of the late 1990s by storm.
Christine And The Queens • Radiohead • Rick Astley • Classic Mix: T’Pau ‘China In Your Hand’ (1987)
This 3.2GB Elastik-format library is split into two parts: part A contains 10 construction kits, while part B offers some additional instrument and drum loops.
Music is not the universal language. You’re thinking of Esperanto.
Coldplay’s unlikely alliance with R&B hitmakers Stargate resulted in a truly trans–Atlantic production, which saw co–producer Rik Simpson clocking up plenty of air miles!
Dorico is the biggest thing to happen to notation software for years. We explore the initial release and discover the thinking behind its innovative design.
How do you go about translating one of the most iconic studio albums of all time to the stage? We speak to FOH engineer/production manager Clint Boire about the 50th-anniversary tour of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.
Electromechanical keyboards - electric organs, electric pianos, and so on - are popular at the moment, and there's no shortage of software plug-ins modelling them. Clavia's Nord Electro attempts exactly the same thing in hardware - but how successfully?
Cobalt Saphira is the first of Waves’ new Cobalt series of plug-ins. It’s an enhancer effect, but one which goes way beyond conventional harmonic enhancers.
Billed as ‘The Jazzy Film Scoring Library’, Swing focuses on the Big Band sound.
Sonokinetic’s vigorous orchestral phrase library piles on the cinematic drama in 4/4 time.