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Mark Wherry has been a contributor to Sound On Sound for around two decades and was formerly SOS Reviews Editor.
Since 2003, Mark has worked as Director of Music Technology for Hans Zimmer at Remote Control Productions in Santa Monica, California. In this capacity he’s contributed to over 50 feature film scores, from the Dark Knight trilogy to Frost/Nixon, Dunkirk, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, as well as developing the first 64-bit, multi-core sampler to be used on such projects.
After studying the organ whilst growing up in England, Mark was finally able to put the lessons to good use performing as the hands of Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
As more musicians and audio professionals begin to embrace G5 Power Macs, we take a look at quantifying just how much host-based DSP power you can expect. Plus, news of the 20-inch iMac and an explanation of 'Journaling'.
With the promise of improved battery life and more compact designs with no compromise in performance, Intel's Centrino technology should be the answer to the mobile musician's prayers. But does the promise hold true when running the most demanding music and audio software?
If you could have one VST Instrument that emulated a hardware workstation, giving you enough polyphony to produce a complete arrangement with a fairly standard computer, would you be interested? Steinberg and Wizoo think you would...
As Apple's recent Panther operating system upgrade is adopted by the Mac community, the usual problems that accompany such a major change begin to surface. We take a closer look at the issues worth considering before making the jump to Panther, and report on Apple's new iBook G4.
There's plenty to investigate in this month's Apple Notes, from the Windows version of iTunes to the latest major update to OS X.
We look at how you can get the most out of Cubase and Reason using Rewire, and report on the release of the significant, yet seemingly insignificant, Cubase SX 2.01 revision.
Building on the success of previous mixer and control surface designs, Mackie's affordable Mackie Control promises the best of the soft- and hardware worlds — but will it make you hang up your mouse?
Legal action by The Beatles' Apple Records caused the iTunes Music Store to hit the headlines recently, but there's no denying it has been an instant success that could change the way music is distributed forever. We look at the background to the Music Store and consider its implications for independent musicians.
We report on Steinberg using Nuendo to record a three-day music festival, and look at how a Cubase Drum Map can assist you in finding and working with all the one-shot drum and percussion sounds in your studio.
This first major revision to Steinberg's Cubase SX incorporates the newly developed audio engine from Nuendo 2, new features for media composers, and classic features from Cubase VST. Does it all add up to a substantial improvement over version 1?