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The new version of Cubase is all about big ideas, including a completely new way of working with tracks, plug-ins and virtual instruments.
Swedish designer Wowa Cwejman has built a reputation for exclusive analogue synths. Now he's going modular, starting with the VM1 Voice module...
Limitations to Cubase's audio routing and audio export facilities have always been frustrating, and are still present even in Cubase v4. Thankfully, there are some free or inexpensive third-party solutions...
Pushing at the boundaries of synthesis, as ever, Dave Smith's Evolver range continues to, er, evolve...
A new drum-based instrument from Digidesign combines instant gratification with a huge sound library and plenty of potential for editing.
Is it a loop librarian? Is it a sample library? Is it a drum-sample playback engine? No - it's all of these, and it brings along its own roster of hyper-famous drummers too...
This new software instrument majors on lively and evocative loops and phrases that can be flexibly combined to create convincing world-music atmospheres.
They say that good things come in small packages — but just how much synthesizer can Korg cram into the tiny Micro X?
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Editor In Chief Paul White wonders why we value software so little...
Waveburner is bundled free with Logic Pro and offers some significant power in the mastering department. We take a look at the hidden jewel in Apple's crown.
Latin music is popular all over the world, but it has its own unique assortment of quirks and exotic instruments. Four of the genre's leading engineers explain what it takes to make a conga sing and timbales talk.
With 64-bit quad-core processing in every model and the ability to run both Mac OS X and Windows, is the Mac Pro the computer all musicians have been waiting for?
No, it's not the Naked Chef, just Sound On Sound getting busy in the kitchen to salvage some old tape recordings... Note: there are no audio files accompanying this article
Many of us feel compelled to regularly change our PCs in line with the demands of the latest software. But, depending on our requirements, an older PC may still be more than capable of doing a great job, as PC Musician discovers this month.
From rogue Firewire controller chips to Windows XP Media Center Edition, the strangest things can cause problems with PC audio...
We take a look at a variety of audio-related techniques, from the staples of soundbite editing to DP5's new Soundbite Volume feature.
Can this mic preamp really deliver 'expensive' sound quality at a mid-market price?
Is there a preferred method of using normalisation?