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Rolling your own loops can breath life into your compositions — especially if they can stretch and shrink on demand.
This sophisticated new digital editor is up against such established software as Sound Forge and Samplitude Studio. Janet Harniman-Cook assesses whether Steinberg have built on their status in the sequencer field with a successful PC wave editing program.
Is this the perfect marriage to date of guitar and MIDI?
Paul Nagle puts the case for the IBM PC as a music computer, but admits that not all is sweetness and light.
Derek Johnson takes a look at a new addition to the still-growing Sound Canvas family.
This SOS reader was having trouble with his monitoring, so the SOS team sped over to his home studio in Bristol, England to sort things out.
Simon Millward continues his mission throughout the furthest reaches of the universe of Cubase, boldly sequencing where no man has sequenced before...
We lend some practical studio advice to a seasoned pro guitarist who is rather newer to the world of songwriting and home recording.
We are used to the idea of using fader boxes and other MIDI controllers to manipulate our music software, but now Serato want to get us using our turntables to scratch digital audio. Can it possibly work?
Having upgraded their D16 to the D1600, Korg have now revamped the 12-track D12 to the D1200. So where does Korg's latest offering stand in the competitive digital multitracker marketplace?
Achieving the perfect balance of analogue mixer and control surface in one product used to mean getting a mortgage on a high‑end SSL or reducing your analogue channel count. Not any more...
The perfect project studio doesn't exist, as everyone has different working methods — and so it is with equipment for creating music for picture. However, there are some fundamental bits of gear you will need. We provide some guidance...
The Integra 7 might at first glance seem to be a Jupiter in rack form, but it turns out there’s more to it than that — much, much more...
Mac CD-writing has a head start over the PC, but recent arrivals like the TEAC CD-R50S come with both Mac and PC CD software as standard. Martin Walker plugs one in to see if writing your own CD is as easy as people make out.
The British are back! Spitfire Audio's orchestral percussion library flies the flag for the UK.
The focus this month is on checking and improving the performance of your PC, with a new benchmark test just released and news of a useful tool that could help you pin down the source of latency-related problems.
Spitfire celebrate this sceptred isle with a suitably grand orchestral library.
NI’s Session Horns forsakes the cinematic to focus on a real-world brass section that’s well suited to pop and rock music.
Backups may be boring, but if you get your backup strategy right now, there will come a time when it saves your life!
Sonnox’s clever plug‑in allows you to hear exactly what different MP3 and AAC encoder settings do to your precious mixes — in a true blind test, if you like!