SOUND ON SOUND
The groove‑quantise functions in Cubase allow you to tighten your performance without killing that all‑important human feel.
'Parisienne Walkways' showcased Gary Moore's virtuoso guitar work and quickly became his signature song. Its recording also provided a young engineer at Morgan Studios with his first, unexpected production credit.
The SOS team visit a well‑appointed home studio to try to cure a strange noise problem and help out with some acoustic guitar recording.
No matter how good the latest, greatest orchestral sample libraries may now be, you still need to develop your arranging skills if you’re to create convincing string parts in any genre. In this first article in a new series, we explain how to get started.
Love it or hate it, ‘hard’ pitch correction is still a much used technique — and it’s simple with Sonar’s V-Vocal.
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New vistas appear for Reason users, with the arrival of Rack Extensions...
If you’re not careful, you could find that your Pro Tools HDX upgrade leaves you without your favourite plug-ins...
Intel’s Ivy Bridge processor may be closer than we thought — but does it make sense for musicians?
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This month, as well as sorting out a few sonic gremlins, with edits, EQ and other tricks, we aim to draw out more of the ‘moments’ in a track.
The spotlight turns to Logic’s MIDI features, as we solve a data-merging problem and offer step-by-step advice on automation recording with hardware control.
Paul Weller's latest album was brimming over with musical creativity. The challenge for mixer Jan Kybert was to forge a coherent album from a mass of ideas.
Recording the White Album was a major project by any standards, not least for Ken Scott, who, at the age of just 21, found himself engineering the biggest band in the world...
After years of relative immunity, the Mac platform may now be more vulnerable to virus attacks. What precautions should you be taking?
The Pro Channel is a highlight of Cakewalk’s Sonar X1 Producer — and some new add-ons make it even more powerful.
The SOS team visit a London studio in a building directly under a busy road — and with another studio in the room next door!