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Image Lines popular sequencing package has evolved from a specialist tool into a DAW application with universal appeal.
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Image Lines popular sequencing package has evolved from a specialist tool into a DAW application with universal appeal.

Thanks to years of experimentation with budget equipment, brothers Peter and David Brewis have developed into one of the UK's best and most interesting studio bands, with a sound that is very much their own.

With upgraded mic amps and A-D conversion in their MkII versions, do Focusrites latest eight-channel preamps still lead the way at this price point?

With digital and analogue inputs, these small speakers from newcomers Infrasonic promise a lot for the money. Can they outperform their budget price tag?

I'm writing this shortly after returning to work after the Christmas holidays and I'm currently cut off from the outside world...

Until now, the biggest name in reverb came attached only to rackmount hardware. Finally, however, Lexicon have made their celebrated rooms, halls and plates available in plug-in format.

Flying the flag for a distinctively British sound, and scoring some huge hits in the process, Cenzo Townshend is one of the UKs hottest mixers. He gives us the inside track on Florence and the Machines hit Youve Got The Love.

Following their unlikely breakthrough into the mainstream, Flaming Lips made a conscious return to the outer limits with their recent album Embryonic. Dave Fridmann manned the controls.

We look at a different use for Lives celebrated time-stretching engine.

Quickly and easily slice, rearrange and process breakbeats using some of the new facilities in Logic 9.

Just where do you look for that final 20 percent that puts your mix on a par with commercial tracks? Find out, as we apply a little polish to Zeno's track 'Signs'.
These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS March 2010.

This mic is certainly styled to look like the classic Neumann U47, but does it sound like it?

So you want to be a media composer? Paul Farrer reminds us that its not about the music you love, its about whats right for the show.

The latest Notion scoring package offers upgraded orchestral samples, VST compatibility and a host of new features. Will it score highly with the musical community?

This month, we're talking new technologies, including futuristic carbon-nanotube computing and — more immediately — the availability of SuperSpeed USB...

Avid-Digidesign's Pro Tools 8 comes bundled with a new suite of AIR plug-ins, some of which are more powerful than they appear. We expose their hidden depths...

It was recommended to me that I tune kick‑drum samples to the key of my song, so I used a tuner and an analyser on my stereo...